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
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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
How I Upload Photos to Facebook
I just have to say, I am loving Windows 7 RC. One of things I like that is an extended part of Windows 7 is the Windows Live Essentials. On a fresh install of Windows 7, go into the search bar and type in “Windows Live Essentials” or you can search for it using your… Continue reading How I Upload Photos to Facebook
Click Once Deployment from Windows 7 Machines
I was trying out Click Once Deployment and was getting errors when i tried installing from the published point. I was getting the error "The required version of the .NET Framework is not installed on this computer." I found this thread when I did a search http://stackoverflow.com/questions/526264/clickonce-the-required-version-of-the-net-framework-is-not-installed-on-this-co where Tim Heuer posts a fix: Hey all,… Continue reading Click Once Deployment from Windows 7 Machines
Battery Problems on Acer Aspire One
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Snake! badger badger badger…
This is my first Zune game! Just managed to draw a snake and make it move. There’s something funky going on with the controls though, not properly being recognized 😦 Will work on it more in my “extra time”.
Web + Mobile + Social + Nice GUI = Stickiness
At least for me. 🙂 A few months ago, I became quite addicted to the Texas Hold ‘Em application on Facebook. I would be playing from 10pm till 4am the next day! 😐 Which is probably why I stopped hehe Just recently though, a few officemates and I have started playing again so I tried… Continue reading Web + Mobile + Social + Nice GUI = Stickiness
Understanding Prism V2
Here are some videos on Channel 9 that walk through building an application using the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight Creating Modular Applications Visual Composition Implementing Views and Services Decoupled Communication
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