This is a suggestion I’ve just sent in via Visual Studio’s “Send a frown” feature (rewritten here a bit differently from memory, since that feedback channel doesn’t allow you to access your previous feedback as the Microsoft Connect or the Uservoice site does) : Instead of having to write try {   … } catch […]

Here are some DeepZoom image samples to enjoy via ClipFlair‘s Image component, in our ClipFlair Studio app (Silverlight-based): http://studio.clipflair.net/?image=http://static.seadragon.com/content/misc/blue-marble.dzi http://studio.clipflair.net/?image=http://static.seadragon.com/content/misc/earths-city-lights.dzi ...

Recently, to save myself sometime after having renamed some interfaces/classes in the ClipFlair project sourcecode, I right-clicked one of the class diagrams (.cd files) in it at Visual Studio’s “Solution Navigator” (this is an enhanced Solution Explorer addon) and using “Open With…” I opened up the diagrams with the XML editor to do a rename-all ...

For ClipFlair, I’m looking into implementing advanced search using Silverlight PivotViewer   A really nice example of PivotViewer search is at: http://www.appletoncompassion.org/VirtualExhibitViewer This may take long time to load, since its loading 10000 children art DeepZoom image tiles You can use the mousewheel to zoom in there or the ...

http://io9.com/5819325/the-bizarre-mathematical-conundrum-of-ulams-spiral http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2010/06/the_surprises_never_eend_the_u.php http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/615/ulam3.png http://imprompt.us/2010/ulam-spiral-take-2/ http://home.manhattan.edu/~peter.boothe/ulam.pdf http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSpiral.html ...

Πρόσφατα έκανα κριτική ανάγνωση (review) μιας προτεινόμενης δημοσίευσης για το συνέδριο ΤΠΕ-Ε 2011 (http://www.ekped.gr/?p=202), που είχε σχέση με την πρόσληψη της έννοιας του φωτός και της σκιάς από τα νήπια. Ανέφερε πως έχουν πρόβλημα να οπτικοποιήσουν νοητά το φως ως “ακτίνες” (όχι ότι είναι ακριβώς ακτίνες βέβαια, κύμα είναι) και τη διάδοση ...