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April 2009 - Posts

Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:13 PM

SilverLight Calculator Experiment

I am writing a scientific calculator in SilverLight as an exercise to learn SilverLight and as something to do while watching TV in the hotel at night. Here is the XAML that I have so far: 1: <UserControl x:Class="CALC_SL.Page" 2: xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
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Friday, April 17, 2009 5:39 PM

Silverlight Different Start Pages

The startup page for a Silverlight application is determined by the RootVisual that is set in the App.xaml file and I wanted a way to have one XAP file with multiple pages that I want to display on pages. My quick solution is to use the InitParameters
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Monday, April 06, 2009 8:30 AM

Full Tilt Poker

Play Online Poker I have been playing poker on Full Tilt Poker again and am enjoying it more this time since I have spent the time to see what the site has to offer. The 100% Deposit Bonus for your first deposit is free money and right now they are running
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Sunday, April 05, 2009 3:12 PM

Huh?!?

I am not sure what to make of this banner ad: First of all the sentence makes absolutely no sense and then formatting of the $1,000,000 is off. Someone spent some time to create this with the fancy graphics and background, but then didn’t notice the
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Saturday, April 04, 2009 8:35 AM

When in Doubt Resort to Bribery

I have decided to run a weekly give away something each week to get a better idea if anyone is really visiting this site. Raymond Chen runs a great blog The Old New Thing that has great information on how Windows was developed and the stories behind the
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Friday, April 03, 2009 7:16 PM

Read-Only C# Automatic Properties

I really like the Automatic Properties feature that was introduced in C# 3.0. For those unfamiliar, it allows for the reduction of this common code pattern: 1: private string _MyString; 2: public string MyString 3: { 4: get 5: { 6:
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Friday, April 03, 2009 6:59 PM

The Null Coalescing Operator (??) and Delayed Object Creation

We have all seen and coded properties like these in our classes that delay the creation of the object until the first time it is needed: 1: private object _MyObject = null; 2: public object MyObjectOldSchool 3: { 4: get 5: { 6:
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Friday, April 03, 2009 2:24 PM

Moleskin MSK Format

I am a Moleskin junkie and have several different versions that I use throughout the day. Ran across the MSK wizard which allows you to import pictures, text, contacts or events into it and print them out to include in your Moleskin.
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Friday, April 03, 2009 11:22 AM

NameChk

NamkChk is a neat site that checks if you user name is available on dozens of social sites. It is also a good way to see where you have registered before and forgotten about it. A by-product is that I was introduced to many social sites that I had never
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:11 PM

Firebug Lite

I have always liked Firebug and wished that it would work for IE and other browsers. Now there is Firebug Lite that is a script that enables some of the functionality in all browsers. I particularly like the bookmarklet that enables on any page that you
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:58 PM

Squeeze What?

From one of my favorites places to shop for crap, ThinkGeek, comes something I never knew I needed: Squeeze Bacon.
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