May 2012
10 posts
Celebrating 20 Years of Wolfenstein 3D - In The... →
Jeff Wilcox – Windows Phone app with GZip: speed... →
Title says it all really. Use GZipWebClient rather than WebClient and get pretty impressive speed and bandwidth improvements.
Calcium: A modular application toolset leveraging... →
Windows Phone toolkit available for this.
Luminance HDR →
Apparently the only open source HDR software out there.
Easy Credential Caching for Git →
An extension for Git Extensions to allow usage of the Windows Credentials store for holding your Codeplex credentials when using Git. Haven’t tried it myself yet.
Using SQLite in a Metro style app →
Introduction to using SQLite (or at least the pre-release source code) with WinRT in C++, C# and Javascript.
www.skinnylister.com/skinnyblog/ →
A List Apart: Articles: Application Cache is a... →
Book Review: Fitness For Geeks - Slashdot →
1 tag
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Raising the bar on... →
Interesting article on the Flickr Code blog about the new Flickr uploader web interface. I haven’t had a chance to give it a go yet but it looks really nice.
April 2012
21 posts
2 tags
More on Fantasy Reading from Orson Scott Card →
An old article listing some good fantasy books to read.
4 tags
PhoneGap →
Trying my hand at PhoneGap as a way to get my British Trees app onto Android and iPhone.
So far its not going according to plan. Some things I can’t get to work are:
Loading a json file from local storage (e.g. via JQuery.getJSON())
Loading local images (this works for some images, but not for others)
Linking to external web sites (doesn’t load in external browser! Loads in current...
jQuery Mobile →
Trying out PhoneGap with JQuery Mobile. jQuery Mobile looks very nice and produces a good layout, although it is very ‘iphone’-ish look and feel to it.
Might try comparing to KendoUI to see how it stacks up.
Programming Windows 6th edition for $10 →
Microsoft are going to be releasing Charles Petzold’s new book Programming Windows 6th Edition in ebook chapter installments for only $10. Deal available from May 17th!
Record Store Day →
Record Store day was last April 21st. Lots of great events at independent record stores throughout the country and a new Official Record Store Chart, which should be interesting.
Maker Space →
Newcastle Maker Space web site.
DotNetZip Library →
Simple Zip library for .Net. See also SharpZipLib as an alternative.
Service Stack →
Open source .NET and Mono web services framework. Also includes fast JSON serializer.
Cloning data on Entity Framework →
Simple example of code to clone a Entity Framework EntityObject class instance. Useful when you want to provide Save/Cancel functionality in a dialog box, and the parent data has not yet been persisted to the database.
Morgue file - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen (Tycho /... →
Flickr ‘Justified’ Layout in JQuery |... →
Twitter Bootstrap →
Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.
Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building... →
An easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device.
JOGLE ULTRA 2012 →
Running from John O’Groats to Lands End - mad people
Paper | FiftyThree →
Nice looking sketchbook app for the iPad. If I ever get an IPad I’ll definitely get this.
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming →
Given I like reading Source Code by the fire with... →
A list of books which include source code people might like to read by the fire.
nerdplusart.com →
Understanding your Windows Phone Camera |... →
December 2008
1 post
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest →
November 2008
4 posts
New ASP.NET Charting Control: - ScottGu's Blog →
How Do I: Send and Receive SMS Messages? →
This is very often asked on .Net forums, now you know… makes use of the PocketOutlook .Net library.
54 Mind-blowing Digital Paintings - PSDTUTS →
Stack Overflow →