If you’ve been wondering where I’ve got to over the past few weeks, rest assured I’ve not given it all up, but I’m taking 6 weeks out to travel round the west coast of the USA with my family in an RV (a motorhome). If you need any more detail than that (really?), head over to bigtrip.voyce.com.
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See you back here in September!
Cornell Box in the evening
I mentioned this on Twitter the other day, but I was so incensed I just had to scribble out a blog post too. It’s a classic case of replacing a traditional (in this case paper-based) “interface” with an electronic one, and in the process failing to translate the fundamental functionality that made the original system useful.
How can you screw-up creating an electronic version of an existing sign?
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I recently discovered a nasty backward compatibility problem with the new type equivalence feature in .NET 4.0. Luckily it’s relatively difficult to hit it if you’re in a pure-C# environment, but if you happen to generate any assemblies directly using IL, you should watch out. Read on for all the gory details.
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As part of the sliding puzzle game I’m developing for the iPhone and iPad (well, I can’t survive on the profits from BattleFingers forever), I looked for a way to represent a numeric score and time display in an interesting way. One of the nicer visual effects you could use for this is the “flip-card clock” style, where each number consists of a top and bottom part, and the top part flips down to reveal the next number. It’s been used in a few other places including the home screen in the HTC Diamond device, and its physical, realistic style fits well with the iPad, so I set about creating a version for the iPhone and iPad using the built-in Core Animation library. Read on for more details.
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The other day I was trying to understand some strange behaviour in msbuild with regard to how it resolves referenced assemblies. I thought I’d try directly invoking the tasks that are used during the build, specifically ResolveAssemblyReference, so that I could experiment with them in F# interactive. It turned out to be pretty straightforward.
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It was fascinating to see Apple unveiling its new iPad hardware recently, and one of the things that caught my eye were the interfaces of the various apps that were demonstrated. They look different from apps on other platforms, and even from the equivalent apps on the iPhone. It seems to me as if there’s been a change to a more naturalistic style of user interfaces. Why is this, and what is it about the iPad that makes it suited to this kind of UI?
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Yes I know, shocking isn’t it? Too busy doing work that pays the bills to blog about random things I find interesting or amusing.
So what’s been keeping me away from WordPress?
, and some Heavy Rain
.Hopefully I’ll get the chance to write something about all of this soon.
On Windows, if you regularly change screen resolution or size, perhaps by accessing a machine remotely, you might find some of your application windows are no longer visible; they’re positioned outside of the visible display area. If you can’t see the window, it can be a little difficult to use the application. How can you get that window back?
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