December 2006 Entries
I've got another article posted on MSDN Coding 4 Fun. Naughty or Nice scans your blog/web site to see how good or bad you've been based on words you use in your posts. It uses regular expressions to search for terms in your web page. It also looks at linked pages to rate them, though it weighs them less for the overall score. It's a fun way to play with the WebClient, BackgroundWorker, and Regex classes. Link: Naughty or Nice
Working with the LEGO Mindstorms NXT using the included (LabVIEW-based) development environment, I feel constrained. For someone starting out with programming, it's an awesome way to visualize program flow, but working with more advanced concepts it becomes a bit tedious. Part of it is I just don't 100% get the pin-based connections, but it's more than that. If I want to process data in another thread, I just can't. I'm also really limited by the small amount of memory available. I've blogged about this before, but it's really a big deal to me. An SD slot or at least a...
After a long hiatus, the MSDN Coding 4 Fun site is back online again! Check out it's cool new UI. It's taken me some time, but I finally got a new article posted. The article discusses a nifty little utility that I wrote to put your computer to sleep or shut it down based on some action. I wrote it so I could go to bed at night, knowing that the computer would standby at the end of a long operation (file download, video transcoding, large file copy, etc). You specify a window to watch, then you can specify an...
I've been working on a project lately that involves me reading a large amount of Internet Explorer resources. I've been primarily using Firefox for over a year now. My first motivator was the tab support, but the open code base and wide variety of extensions was the deal maker. As I peruse the MSDN pages, I'm amazed at how much is available. It really covers a lot of information. Unfortunately, it's not geared for .NET development. There's also a relatively high barrier to entry to write many of the extensions due to the COM interfaces. I don't have a COM...
I've started contributing to the Aeshen blog recently, talking about multithreading and multicores. I've posted twice so far, and will post more every so often. Mostly essays about how things are today with processors and code that exploits parallelism. I think it's interesting stuff, and something not explored enough. Take a look if you have a chance!