22 Mar
2013

Basic JavaScript: Prototypical Inheritance vs. Functional Inheritance

Inheritance in JavaScript has been the topic of many discussions in the past and will continue to be the source of future debates and arguments. While we do value composition over inheritance, we don?t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater either. So, from time to time, we run into these cases where […]

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19 Mar
2013

RichEditBox gives UnauthorizedAccessException (Access is denied) error when SetText called.

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While working on a little WinRT app I recently spent WAY too much time trying to figure out why I was getting the following exception System.UnauthorizedAccessException was unhandled by user code   HResult=-2147024891   Message=Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))   Source=Windows.UI   StackTrace:        at Windows.UI.Text.ITextDocument.SetText(TextSetOptions options, String value) when all I […]

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12 Mar
2013

Windows 8 Share Charm Data Inspector

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In a previous post I mentioned I would share the app I created during a Windows 8 hackathon event. I spent some more time adding polish, testing, re-thinking my initial designs and today, I?m excited to say that it is now in the app store! What does this app do? The Share Data Inspector is […]

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3 Mar
2013

Windows 8 Hackathon: Good for participants. Bad for Microsoft.

Last weekend I participated in a Windows 8 hackathon. In 24 hours of coding I had an app created and submitted to the App Store for certification. 24 hours to create an app? I’ll share details about the app I created in a future post. For now, I have since removed my app from the […]

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