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Monday, March 19, 2007 - Posts

  • Added a split screen toggle to ChatBlender

    Last week I was trying to show my wife ChatBlender… (yall know how it goes… “No really honey… this is really something amazing you wont think its boring…okay…hmmm… so maybe its only cool to us geeks…”) After I showed it to her via a messenger conversation where I was passing pictures of our newborn daughter… She [...] Read More...
  • FreezableCollection Tip

    Throughout the WPF graphics system are collection classes that derive from Freezable by way Animatable . These are generally collections of objects that also derive from Freezable or Animatable . These freezable collection classes fire change notifications whenever items are added to or removed from the collection, of course, but also when a dependency property of any item within the collection changes. This is an extremely powerful mechanism. TransformCollection , for example, derives from Freezable and Animatable . It fires notifications whenever one of the transforms in the collection changes (for example, though a data binding or animation), allowing the composite transform to be re-calculated and the graphics object to reflect that change. If you ever need a custom WPF collection class that derives from Freezable and Animatable you will be overjoyed to discover the generic FreezableCollection<T> class, where T derives from DependencyObject . This class will save you a lot of Read More...
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  • Tagged by Johnny Halife

    He sido taggeado o marcado como le quieran llamar por Johnny Halife Esto de los tags o las marcas se trata de que una persona cuente cinco cosas no muy conocidas de uno y luego le pase la pelota a otras cinco personas para que hagan lo mismo. Bueno empiezo... Arranque con el tema de la informatica a los 7 años cuando veiamos Logo Writer en el cole en una commodore 128 (una masa) y como me gusto y mucho le pedi a los reyes magos un libro de logo :) no solo que me trajeron eso si no que tambien una 286, casi me muero... Despues a los 10 años culpa de Jurassic Park quice ser paleontologo y estuve con eso comprandome revistas, leyendo libros y saliendo los findes a la montaña a juntar piedras 1 año y pico, casi dos, hasta que me regalaron un libro de VB4 y volvi al camino de la luz :p Por ahi me gusta armarme una mochila, la carpa, una caña de pescar e irme solo dos o tres dias a las sierras a caminar y despejarme un poco. Es como una especie de formateo... Soy un enfermo de mi auto, ahora Read More...
  • Daffy “Times” Article on Amazon and Classical Music

    An article by Bob Tedeschi on page C4 of the Business section of today's New York Times (available online here ) proclaims “Amazon Seeks to Fill Classical Recording Niche,” yet nothing in the article gives me any hope. The article begins by noting how the closing of Tower Records has taken away a large retail source for people who buy classical CDs. But this schizoid piece gives no indication that Amazon is inclined to actually pursue that particular market. Instead, the article focuses on a new discount Blowout store that Amazon has opened that serves as "an introductory service to those who wish to build classical music collections but are not willing to spend large sums on a genre they know little about." Music education is a fine thing, and Amazon should be commended for trying to get people interested in classical music. And the prices in the Blowout store (some as low as $2.98) are certainly enticing. But according to the article this Blowout store consists of only 2,000 CDs, which Read More...
  • Design Beta 2

    Just downloaded and installed the latest. Looking better every time! Coolest new feature that I dont remember being available in Beta 1 is Adobe Illustrator .AI import which will be incredibly useful Read More...

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