Archive for September, 2008

 

links for 2008-09-29

Sep 30, 2008 by delicious in Links

  • Tired of querying in antiquated SQL?

    Well, you don't have to! LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!

  • Need an application on your Windows Mobile device so you can view yours and your friends' characters profiles for World of Warcraft? Then this is the program for you!

links for 2008-09-27

Sep 28, 2008 by delicious in Links

  • World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls that live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
    (tags: physics games)

links for 2008-09-26

Sep 27, 2008 by delicious in Links

  • The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can make the shift from being statically compiled to dynamically composed. If you are building extensible applications, extensible frameworks and application extensions, then MEF is for you.

links for 2008-09-25

Sep 26, 2008 by delicious in Links

links for 2008-09-24

Sep 25, 2008 by delicious in Links

  • Propellerhead Software's ReBirth RB-338 pioneered a new era of music instrumentation that merged the principles of "virtual reality" with historic synthesizers and drum machines. This concept seemed impossible at the time, but has since become a common trend in music software.
  • This reference aims to provide an overview of whether your API supports a given special folder, and where to look for it.

links for 2008-09-23

Sep 24, 2008 by delicious in Links

  • # View your mobile screen on your desktop.
    # Control your mobile by using desktop keyboard and mouse.
    # Copy/Cut/Paste text between mobile and desktop.
    # Capture mobile screen.
    # Drag and drop files to your mobile.
    # Support ActiveSync / IP Connection
    # Support Mobile Explorer (File Browse)
  • This is a set of Perl code that parses WoW combat logs, pre-2.4 and post-2.4, and generates statistics from them. It should work on TBC logs as well as WLK logs.

links for 2008-09-22

Sep 23, 2008 by delicious in Links

  • This led me to undertake a more general investigation into how Windows Installer interacts with UAC. Specifically, I set out to figure out in what circumstances an MSI-based setup will prompt the user for elevation, and how elevated privileges are propagated through the MSI to the custom actions that it contains.
  • A lot of people asked on our mailing lists how they can "unversion a working copy", "detach/unlink a working copy from the repository", "remove files from version control" or something like that. All those questions lead to the users wanting to remove the hidden .svn folders inside every Subversion working copy.

links for 2008-09-19

Sep 20, 2008 by delicious in Links

  • Next-Generation User Experiences. The Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, provides a unified framework for building applications and high-fidelity experiences in Windows Vista that blend application UI, documents, and media content. WPF offers developers 2D and 3D graphics support, hardware-accelerated effects, scalability to different form factors, interactive data visualization, and superior content readability.

links for 2008-09-18

Sep 19, 2008 by delicious in Links

links for 2008-09-11

Sep 12, 2008 by delicious in Links