Cascading Deletions in Entity Framework

Imagine that there is the model shown on the picture. You want to delete an entity of type “Specification”. There is an option called “Cascading” that can be defined under the corresponding relation between two database entries. When Cascading is on, all you need to do is simply delete the parent object. Cascading takes care of the rest, which means that it automatically clears out all related child objects.
The code that is needed comes below:

Control your wall lights with raspberry Pi

Hello again, it´s been a while. I have decided to move on from Openelec and installed xBian on my Raspberry Pi. It all went smoothly and super fast and I am pretty happy with how it works. The reason for this decision was that Openelec has a read only file system… and I love tampering. I found a nice german guy that described a way to create a very cheap electronic expansion board and bundle it with a raspberry pi to effectively manage to control equipment such as this or this or even this. Wanna see how it`s done? Read on!

Tasker and XBMC, part 2: Create smart playlists and play them by using voice commands (UPDATED!)

Hello again everyone. I assume that you have read the previous post and will try to set up another magic trick with this one here. I will show you how to use your voice, talk to your phone and make XBMC create a playlist based on your command and actually start playing it.

Possible voice commands are for example: "Play music where album is Hairspray" or "Play music where genre is rock" or even "Play music where artist like Jason"
(Of course you need to have those in your music library, right?)

A prerequisite for all these to work is that your android phone and XBMC are connected to the same wireless network.

Tasker for android and XBMC on a Raspberry Pi: Home Automation madness

Hello back, it´s been a while. But I have been playing with interesting toys lately. And this post is here to describe some of it.

Let us introduce the toys first:
1. Tasker for android : On Android market and project website. This is an automation app for android platform. It is very easy to use, there are tutos everywhere online, I won´t cover this part.
2. XBMC on a raspberry Pi computer. If you don´t know what this is, learn. It is worth it.
3. A Samsung Smart TV (model 40UE6300).
4. Json - RPC framework. This is the way to communicate with the XBMC on the raspberry Pi and create all the magic tricks. This is just for reference, I will create another post to describe more magic tricks.
5. Autovoice plugin for Tasker. This will help you be the master of your own android device, namely by allowing you to command it. Directly.
6. Tasker SSH Command launcher.

How? Read on!

Kendo Grid: Ajax Binding while parsing Server side properties. Is this possible?

In a nutshell yes. I am currently migrating a website and I was in need of presenting data inside a Kendo Grid depending on the state of a server variable. There are different ways to achieve results, however my case was a bit peculiar. Let me first explain the goal here: We aim to be able to use .ClientTemplate templates in our Grid that actually render html based on the state of Server variables.

You might ask, why not just use the server side .Template? Simply enough, because it does not work with Ajax requests in the dataset. Please correct me if I am wrong, but no matter how hard I have tried, it never worked. So I came up with a workaround.