Here is one that took me entirely too long to figure out. I downloaded this Nifty Corners Cube javascript? plugin I guess Ill call it? It was used in a past project I was on and I thought it was pretty cool. It will definitely save some time putting out a decent UX without having […]
Read MoreSome of you who follow Elegant Code, as well as some of the Elegant Coders may have wondered why my blog went dark for a while this last year. Well, sometimes life just kicks you in the balls. Lets rewind to January of 2009. My wife Katy and I own 3 properties, one we live […]
Read MoreAs my bookshelf has grown out of proportion over the last years, I basically had two options left. First option was to build an extra room onto my house that could serve as a private library, which is kind of expensive. Second option was to the reduce the amount of paper by buying an eReader […]
Read MoreWebCam support in Silverlight 4 is a much anticipated feature, and probably didn?t come as much of a surprise. It?s relatively simple to enable this feature. The below example shows a simple UI with the code to enable the webcam. This post does not cover multiple webcams, however calling CaptureDeviceConfiguration.GetAvailableVideoCaptureDevices returns a list of all […]
Read MoreOK, bitter-sweet podcast here, this is Daddy Starr?s final podcast with the Elegant Code Cast. Why? Well, you will just have to listen to find that out. In the mean time, we also talk about Agile, LEAN, working agile methodologies in with family life, and his new company: Guild 3. Have a listen and tell […]
Read MoreI am grateful to INETA to be attending PDC this year. Also, I grateful to Visual Stuart, who is letting me crash in his room. Turns out, I am a cheap skate 🙂 I am sitting in the keynote on Tuesday and thinking about the week. In addition to the Wait? What the… WordPress moving […]
Read MoreI was asked today, “what’s this whole ‘Microsoft Azure’ thing about?” I haven’t done anything with Azure, EC2, or Google Apps Engine, but why let my ignorance stop me from blogging about it? So here’s a brief summary of what I understand about these cloud technologies – I find the whole idea fascinating and am […]
Read MoreEven though NHibernate 3.0 is on the way I am going to highlight a feature that was introduced in v2.1 but that relatively few people seem to be using (at least in the code bases I have seen recently). Former ECer Davy Brion, as always, does an excellent job of demonstrating usage of the feature […]
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