Last week, I pondered the state of multitouch with XNA. And I mentioned that I was considering buying a multi-touch enabled monitor from Dell. Well, over the last few days I have been shopping around on line and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that there are several others on the market. Acer t230h Dell [...]
Quick on the heals of yesterday’s post, I’ve released v1.2 of Scurvy.Test. This is the first official release of the framework and improvements over the initial announcement are mainly centered around the status reporting of test pass/failure. I also upgraded the solution to vs 2k8 and xnags 3.1. Here’s the changelog if you’re interested: Introduced [...]
For those of you that use MSTest, you’ve no doubt noticed a folder called “TestResults” which can get quite large. This is because each test run copies all of the project output into that folder to store the results of the run. Well, I updated my little open source tool to take care of it: [...]
In the months leading up to Christmas ’09, I was pondering what to buy for my kids. Instead of the normal brainless and easy gifts like transformers, gi-joes, and barbies, I wanted to get them something that matters, something that will benefit them. As I browsed around the internet, I came across microscopes, chemistry kits, [...]
After declaring my love for extension methods in the last post, it only seemed appropriate that it would come up again in an answer I gave to a stackoverflow question. The question stated: In ASP.NET Web Apps , events are fired in particluar order : for simplicity Load => validation =>postback =>rendering Suppose I want to [...]
If you’ve been keeping up with the new developments in the web world, no doubt you’ve heard about Web Workers. A new technology for browsers that will let you take advantage of the client’s true multi-threading capabilities. Currently, it’s only supported in Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, and some of the latest nightly Chrome builds. I [...]
There are many different types of productivity, today I’m going to talk about the things that you do on a day to day basis. A few years ago, I found myself unhappy with my level of productivity and decided to figure out a way to manage my time better. As one would do when trying [...]
I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of code on my computer. As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, I’m often running out of space on my laptop. So yesterday, I was running WinDirStat on my harddrive to see what I could clean up. I found that I had a significant [...]
Introducing nBayes, a new open source project which can be found here: http://nbayes.codeplex.com/ nBayes is a simple implementation of the naive bayesian spam filter described by Paul Graham in his essay "A Plan for Spam" (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html). The API is very simple, there are just 3 classes that you need to be familiar with. Index Entry [...]
While there are some examples of accessing the Twitter API via C# on the web, I couldn’t really find any good samples of how to do a search. There were some examples that took the REST route and used raw http requests. While others explored the JSON formatting capabilities of the twitter API. In the [...]