Hardcode

Here's a video showing the future Nokia interfaces, there's a multi-touch pad and of course the touchscreen:

 

Me and Dragos Novac have just been qualified for the Seedcamp finals held next week in London, UK.

Take a look who's coming, we're going meet people like Niklas Zennstrom or Michael Arrington.
 

I want an SqlDataSource that automatically generates the command queries having as parameters some high-level stuff like the table name, some filter conditions etc. It's 2007 and I am concatenating strings for an SQL query.

Just as I get some spare time I'll write it.
 

Urbee was shortlisted for Seedcamp, we've just had the interview, results are in tomorrow.

Any resemblances?

1973-era flowchart:

 

 

Windows Workflow Foundation (2006):

One thing I hate about SqlDataSource + GridView / DetailsView is the lack of partial updates, why the hell do I need to maintain the values for all the fields in a record so they all get updated, it's a nonsense. Presuming you have user roles, guess what, I can't hide the fields users aren't supposed to see as they get NULL'ed in the database when the record is updated :(.

Did you know that Nokia has some fashionable or high-tech accessories, exciting and disruptive as Nokia has always been:

Nokia Fashion Jewelry Collection

Nokia Digital Pen

Simply write on paper with this pen and it will save an image of what you've written, image that you can get it on your mobile via Bluetooth. 

 

Nokia Medallion I & II 

The medallions have an infrared port where you can beam pictures, these are stored and displayed.

Nokia Kaleidoscope

Same as above but less fashionable :)

Nokia Image Frame

This may not seem so groundbreaking but when it appeared it kind of was.

 

Mihai Pătraşcu, one of the most promising researchers in algorithms and data structures I know has recently started a blog: infoweekly.

Interesting paradox, not resolved yet, give it a try: :P

The setup: Let's say you are given two indistinguishable envelopes, each of which contains a positive sum of money. One envelope contains twice as much as the other. You may pick one envelope and keep whatever amount it contains. You pick one envelope at random but before you open it you're offered the possibility to take the other envelope instead.

The switching argument: Now, suppose you reason as follows::

1. I denote by A the amount in my selected envelope
2. The probability that A is the smaller amount is 1/2, and that it's the larger also 1/2
3. The other envelope may contain either 2A or A/2
4. If A is the smaller amount the other envelope contains 2A
5. If A is the larger amount the other envelope contains A/2
6. Thus, the other envelope contains 2A with probability 1/2 and A/2 with probability 1/2
7. So the expected value of the money in the other envelope is
   
   
   
   
8. This is greater than A, so I gain on average by swapping
9. After the switch I can denote that content B and reason in exactly the same manner as above
10. I will conclude that the most rational thing to do is to swap back again
11. To be rational I will thus end up swapping envelopes indefinitely
12. As it seems more rational to open just any envelope than to swap indefinitely we have a contradiction

From Wikipedia.

If you have some spare time and want to try becoming an artist, here's some specialized software to play with :

Resolume - the software used by VJs all over the world

Arduino - an electronic board with a microcontroller to command devices based on sensor input

Openframeworks - a library for opengl animations and visualisations

Processing - a programming environment used to build visual installations etc