Hardcode
Making it happen
MIPCube TV Hack
Mar 22nd
I’ll be in Cannes 7-11 April for: http://www.mipcube.com/en/competitions/tv-hack/
Deploy native x64 c++ dll to Windows Azure
Mar 16th
If you get the following error:
Activation context generation failed for “”. Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture=”amd64″,publicKeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,type=”win32″,version=”9.0.30729.6161″ could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
You need to deploy the C++ redist and create a startup task to install it before the role starts. There are many C++ redists for VS 2008 SP1 but the only one that works is this one: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26368.
Bing vs Google
Feb 6th
Ok let’s compare results for an EF how-to: linq to entities group by date
Google results vs Bing results
Bing does not have the expert.tc and questionhub spamsites, and also ranks the msdn forum solution higher (#2 vs #4).
Albeit the correct solution for EF4 involves EntityFunctions.TruncateTime.
Gotchas
Jan 23rd
Small things I always forget:
.equals where comparing strings in Java!
HH:mm instead of hh:mm with DateTime.ToString!
… to be continued
SqlFunctions
Nov 15th
I had no idea about these functions, you can now use all SQL Server features in Entity Framework 4 Linq queries.
PSDBreaker
Nov 13th
PSDBreaker is a Photoshop add-in to automatically export your website design to HTML and CSS. It doesn’t use absolute positioning, detects columns and has lots of other nice features, the resulted code is very usable. Give it a try now!
Qt SDK Commercial Pricing
Nov 3rd
ROFL – Nokia wants to kick Android and iOS with their commercial Qt SDK being only 2995 euros ?!
Startup Batch
Aug 3rd
Two startups I wished I’d though of that:
- GazeHawk – Webcam-based eye-tracking website heatmaps, tech-based but not easy at all to develop
- Rapportive – GMail Social Sidebar, much easier to build but harder to monetize ?
VS2010 drop files in editor
Jul 16th
If you have “Drag and drop text editing” disabled you cannot drop files anymore in the editor (to open them).
Please vote for the bug: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/575691/dropping-files-in-the-editor-does-not-work, maybe they fix it in the SP.
Calling All Innovators – Romania
Jul 16th
Urbee is finalist: http://www.callingallinnovators.com/romania/
