Author: Being In Tech
Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
We’re having our Singapore launch of Windows 7 this November and in honor of that, I’ll be devoting my upcoming (and long overdue) TechFridays to everything Windows 7. For this post, I'll be talking about how you can use the Visual State Manager for WPF to manage the different screen states in your application in… Continue reading Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
First long distance bike ride!
Last weekend, my team at work had an outing at East Coast Park and thanks to @nenggiin we had an awesome time, going on a pseudo scavenger hunt on bikes. :) Prior to that, I think the last time I remember being on a bike was when I was 8 years old. Back then, I… Continue reading First long distance bike ride!
TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
Everybody’s excited about Windows 7 and there might be a few of you guys out there wanting to take advantage of some of the new features of the OS in your applications. In this post, I’ll show you how you can quickly add Jumplist support to your existing application (Yes, even WinForms applications) In order… Continue reading TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
Okay, I missed Tech Friday, so I decided to make it Tech Weekend instead. I attended the June Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX last Thursday and was able to catch up a bit on the new technologies. I have been busy with a few other things at work and I am ashamed to say, I have been lagging… Continue reading TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
Housekeeping..
I decided to clean up my blog over the weekend. Actually, I was considering for a while there buying yet another domain and starting all over but then I realized, there really wasn’t any point to that. I had just become lazy to maintain this one because I felt it had become a bit messy.… Continue reading Housekeeping..
Tech Friday: Your Own Custom Search Providers
Not the most techie thing to do but hey, today isn’t the greatest day to be using much of my brain as most of it is concentrating on agonizing on pain. I was browsing around the blogs I monitor and found a post by Long Zheng talking about a little experiment that showed how much… Continue reading Tech Friday: Your Own Custom Search Providers
Tech Friday: The Orientator
I was thinking of an app to build for tech Friday and I remember running in to @willyfoo the other day. He mentioned he needed an application that would read in EXIF data from photographs and rotate them based on the orientation meta tag. It was quite a good exercise cause it allowed me to… Continue reading Tech Friday: The Orientator
Tech Friday!
I hereby declare that Friday mornings will now be committed to leveling up my technical knowledge. For this morning, I watched a session on http://www.visitmix.com which talked about Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls in Silverlight 3. Check out Karen Corby’s session at http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T16F Some really cool features of Silverlight 3 she talks about are Theming, Validation… Continue reading Tech Friday!
How Do I Manage Two Twitter Accounts Using Just My Browser
Twitter has definitely become more and more popular both for work and for personal stuff. I have my personal twitter account which I use as I please: update the world about my bathroom habits, complain about unfortunate events, have random conversations with people, etc. I also have another work account which I have just started,… Continue reading How Do I Manage Two Twitter Accounts Using Just My Browser
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