16 Jan
2010

Odd Behavior with ScaleTransform.CenterXY in SilverLight 3

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Lately I’ve been working on an AI project, parts of which might get turned into a Boise Code Camp presentation, hopefully.  Rather than just debugging via Console.Write, I want to see what the AI is up to using one of those new-fangled Graphical User Interfaces that I’ve heard so much about, specifically via Silverlight.  A […]

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3 Dec
2009

OpenCV cvLoadImage IOError

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I’ve been working on a project that involves computer vision algorithms.  Fortunately, really smart people have done all the hard work and produced OpenCV.  Even better, there are a set of Python bindings, which makes a big difference because my project is written using Python. The bad news:  I’m writing this on a Windows box […]

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1 Dec
2009

Removing WSUS

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A while back, the company I work for experimented with setting up a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS).  The idea is that you have one server that goes out and downloads all of the hotfixes, service packs, and so on for your network – then each of your client machines goes directly to the local […]

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28 Nov
2009

Database Change Management with Tarantino

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Seeing as how I have not graced these pages with my presence in quite some time. I figured I better get something going. A little while back my team started working with some outside contractors and our make shift way of keeping changes in sync and under control was simply not cutting the mustard. Why […]

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20 Nov
2009

Silverlight 4 WebCam – at a glance

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WebCam 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 […]

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16 Nov
2009

Azure Summary

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I 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 […]

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11 Nov
2009

Delete a work Item in TFS

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I needed to delete a work item in TFS and found that by design it is not easy to do. I found that this can be done using the TFS Power Tools via the command line. tfpt.exe destroywi /server:http://ServerName:8080 /workitemid:123 You will get a warning: This action is not recoverable. Are you sure you want […]

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9 Nov
2009

StructureMap and SharePoint

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I’ve started doing some SharePoint development and have brought some of my favorite tools and practices with me.  Like unit tests.  And IoC.  And that other SOLID stuff.  I’m writing a very basic WebPart to get started with SharePoint – this web part will display a list of links to other applications that the user […]

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