WPF is a great technology and in my opinion is miles better than WinForms. Unfortunately, like any technology there are always going to be shortfalls that you have to work around yourself. My company is presently developing a WPF Desktop Application that fetches images from a web server. One of the shortfalls of WPF is [...]
Tagged c#, howto, image-caching, wpfBefore I start this tutorial I must preface this with a warning: The amount of coding in this tutorial is so minimal it is almost sexually exciting. I have found that Powershell is such a powerful scripting tool that you can accomplish tasks that would take 100’s of lines in a lot less. This tutorial [...]
Tagged css, html, mssql, powershell, sqlGenerally, the Software Development Process is pretty clear cut.
Requirements
Specification
Architecture
Design
Construction/Testing/Documentation
Release and Maintenance
When it comes to post-release maintenance, it is an iterative process that goes over all these steps in a smaller scale. This is often referred to as iterative and incremental development. As a developer that has only been part of my current project post-release, its [...]
On a forum that I frequent there is a thread “What are you listening to now?” where people simply post the name of the song they’re listening to. While I was bored I created a current-song command which grabs the name of the song you’re listening to from the FoxyTunes addon and pastes it into [...]
Tagged firefox, javascript, ubiquity, ubiquity-commandsI have discovered the Ubiquity extension for Firefox and I am loving it. So much that I tweeted about it and have decided I will try to develop some commands for it in the future. I have been using Enso Launcher for a while now and Ubiquity seems like the perfect companion for the web.
I [...]