Betterest Efforts. That is what you pay off when you render to post internet video. Its absolutely unsufferable to see to it anyone , anyplace that a video you or any Contented Delivery Network hosts will be capable to be delivered at the tantamount quality of any TV show being transmited today. There is a [...]
May 30, 2008
May 29, 2008
Quaker votes
Jerry (no blog) has been evidencing us all about a process they use for consensus [link from Michael ] building in some standards meetings… evidently the Quaker vote is treated everyone voting on each item as one of: a) Preferb) Can acceptc) Can’t live with The idea being that fair people will more rapidly come to [...]
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Language parsing and compiler design doesn’t have to be hard, but boy this book truly sucks!
How’d you like that for an opening up title? Did it seize your attention? Hell, your studying this far so I hazard it did. The book I’m riveting on hither is Work up Your Own.NET Language and Compiler and delight, don’t click the link and so run purchase it. I don”t care about the 50 [...]
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Career history
Taking “On Going a Leader” has been really interesting, more often than not because it intimates that a central differentiator of leaders is the vision that leaders allow for, while others are contented to be aimed. Interestingly I have been passing a lot of time at work stressing to see what I should be stressing [...]
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May 28, 2008
Where to Find oneself Expert Support
Microsoft’s prescribed support website is http://support.microsoft.com/. It has all kinds of resources like product FAQs, downloads, searchable KB articles, newsgroup pointers, and ways to hit people to help with your single needs or feedback. Alas, I can’t consecrate attention to single customer issues. That’s because I work in product design and development, not customer support. [...]
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April 3, 2008
Playing Multiple Simultaneous Sounds in WPF
Also see: Bloggers in the Mavs Locker Room ? WPF’s MediaElement makes simple media playback pretty straightforward, but moving beyond the simple scenarios can sometimes raise surprising challenges. For example, I recently saw someone tripped up by the MediaElement when attempting to play several sounds concurrently. As you’ll see, one solution would have been to [...]
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March 26, 2008
Brad Abrams’ pixel8 Interview Podcast posted
Also see: The influence of style upon methodology… I just noticed that the good folks at Pixel8 posted a podcast I did with them a while back. It was a fun conversation about a bit of.NET history as well as where we are going. Landing Page Download show I’d love the hear what you [...]
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March 25, 2008
Quick attempt at a validating roman numeral parser… Lots of gotchas.
Also see: New Assembly, Old .NET (and Vice-Versa) Also see: Debugging an InvalidCastException Also see: Spring Web Flow features and feedback request Got asked about a roman numeral parser during an interview. I have to say that I don’t mind when the process of obtaining employment plays into my strengths. The process was quite similar [...]
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March 24, 2008
LINQ – The Uber FindControl
Also see: Trust Microsoft with Claimspace (my response pending) With a simple extension method to ControlCollection to flatten the control tree you can use LINQ to query the control tree: public static class PageExtensions { public static IEnumerable<Control> All(this ControlCollection controls) { foreach (Control control in controls) { foreach (Control grandChild in control.Controls.All()) yield return [...]
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March 23, 2008
VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements
Also see: The NCAA and the Hoosiers I try to follow a coding standard for organizing my using statements. System.* goes at the top and then other namespaces grouped together like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Web; using System.Web.Script.Services; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; using Microsoft; using Microsoft.CSharp; using MyCompany; [...]
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