To aid development of rich interactive applications, and reduce the amount of time spent on handling OS specific interactions. .Net applications hide a lot of the underlying message passing that occurs between an application and the OS. This obfuscation is done either at a control or CLR level and usually is perfectly reasonable. However...
Read more →I have posted quite a few times previously covering WPF, its quirks and workarounds as well as ways to improve its overall perceived performance to end users. In this article I will summarise them all, add in lots more tips and tricks and tell you some big gotchas. Versioning WPF and Windows have come...
Read more →Trade-offs have to be made when moving to Cloud platforms, that’s a fact, the question is how much of a comprise do you have to make. Performance and flexibility are two such entities that are intertwined. In this article I want to talk about how you can build a plugin based architecture in Azure...
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase literally translated as “Who will guard the guards themselves?” but commonly rendered as “Who watches the watchmen?” made famous paraphased from its original latin in Orwell’s 1984. With the recent events such as the London Riots and the bombing in Boston, its slowly becoming clear that the...
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Knowing that Joseph Kosinski, the man behind TRON Legacy was directing this film, I knew from the get go that this was going to be a visually stunning multi layered films, and I was stunned when I watched it, and by stunned I mean holding onto my set going ‘the awesomeness …its everywhere!!’ The...
Read more →A while ago I did a post about Lambda calculus in C#, mainly focusing on how you can implement the concept of Y combinators. Y combinators are one of the simplest fixed point combinators in Lambda calculus, and was discovered by a Mr Curry. One of the other interesting concepts of Lambda calculus is...
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It has been a busy few months with very few blog posts to show for it, I believe it is time to change that! In January I went to New York to attend the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference but took nearly a week off to wander around and explore, try out the local...
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Till now I had been using a combination of an Apple Time Capsule and a collection of attached USB external harddiscs as my NAS and backup solution. This isn’t really that good and also I am starting to approach the Time Capsules known lifespan of around 20 months. The Time Capsule Memorial Register has...
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The Cloud seems to be the buzz word of the modern generation, such as HTML5, Ruby on Rails and AJAX were before it. Everyone is scrambling to use it, some bash out an idea or two after a few days tinkering but its only a few that actually understand the technologies. So what does...
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For a long time Microsoft has offered an OCX or COM componentised version of the Windows Media player for inclusion into C# applications. With the introduction of WPF a few years back Microsoft required enhanced video support in end user applications. What we ended up with was the MediaElement control, which I think most...
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In the winter of 2012 in the run up to christmas a Tablet computer was being sold in the UK every minute or so, and proved to be one of the most popular presents. This was in part due to tablet technology maturing and the ensuing race to the bottom in terms of pricing....
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It is that time again, where cakes are a plenty and ‘Santa’ turns out to be the local Amazon delivery man. It must be Christmas of course! I personally love christmas, not just because I get shiny things but because there is usually lots of cake and fun to be had. Like most years...
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