Last time I presented a truly horrible prime number generator I was using for Project Euler problems. Then I presented a revamped generator that used trial division. By adding various refinements to the generator, we saw the time required to generate primes less than 107 shrink from hours to …
From time to time, I find myself caught up in the heady world of Project Euler. It's almost like playing Professor Layton or some other puzzle-solving game - mathematical or programming brain teasers, served in bite-sized pieces.
If you look at the Project Euler problems for any length of time, you'll …
This week I started working with the Autofac Inversion of Control container at the Day Job. The first project I tried to introduce Autofac to needed a plugin system. I figured this was a perfect use of Autofac's implicit relationship handlers. Sure enough, a
container.Resolve<IEnumerable<IPlugin>>()did the …
This post is from a series on my experiences starting to grow an MVVM Framework in .NET 1.1.
* Part I—Event Handlers * Part II — Properties * Part III — Properties Redux * Part IV—Unit Tests * Part V—Reflections and RegretsFull source code can be found in my Google Code repository …
This post is from a series on my experiences starting to grow an MVVM Framework in .NET 1.1.
* Part I—Event Handlers * Part II – Properties * Part III – Properties Redux * Part IV—Unit Tests * Part V—Reflections and RegretsFull source code can be found in my Google Code repository …
This is second post in a series on my experiences starting to grow an MVVM Framework in .NET 1.1.
* Part I—Event Handlers * Part II—Properties * Part III —Properties Redux * Part IV—Unit Tests * Part V—Reflections and Regrets Full source code can be found in my Google Code …I've written 3 Google Chrome Extensions. The first two were for use at the Day Job, so I initially hosted them on an internal server. Eventually I moved them out to the Chrome Extension Gallery. There are a few benefits to doing this over self-hosting:
I'm enjoying using (and working on) Library Lookup, but I'm not entirely satisfied with the Page Action icons that pop up when searching, or when a book is found, or not found. In particular, I wanted a small animation while the search was ongoing, something like this: 
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Unfortunately, the animated …
At the Day Job, I usually work on a middleware component that contains a component that monitors the state of the system. A "health check", if you will. The component can be monitored automatically so notifications can be triggered on error conditions, or it can be used by a human …