Population Growth in Sports I went on a mountain bike ride yesterday. I rode up Tunnel Creek Road, in Incline Village, up to the Flume Trail. The last time I was on this road was more than fifteen years ago. It was brutal. When I did this ride…
Continue readingForm Test Page The Windows Phone 8 app that I have been working on for a while now has forms with required fields. Only a subset of fields are required, but there are no marking to indicate this. In the image above, you can see a test…
Continue readingThe Windows Phone supports two types of controls that a user would think of as panoramas. One is called, of all things, a Panorama. The other is not so obviously called a Pivot control. Panorama I am borrowing some images to describe the Panorama control first. Anyone who…
Continue readingTranslucent Background Color While working on a WinRT project (Windows 8 Store App), I came across an interesting problem; how do I bind the Background property of a Border element to a SolidColorBrush but then set the opacity of that same brush to get the translucent look…
Continue readingI was using a 2.8 GHz AMD Phenom II x3 chip for quite a while. I bought that chip because it was a bit cheaper at the time than the X4 version and it was a huge upgrade from the single core chip that I had before it….
Continue readingInvalid Server Response – The response to the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method received from the blog server was invalid. The WLW log file found at “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Windows Live Writer” shows a line that explains the above error in more detail: <br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Out of memory (allocated 26476544) (tried to…
Continue readingI decided to take a break from programming topics on this blog and write about my mountain bike and how it sat for more than ten years unridden. But really, there is no point in writing about my bike gathering dust. Instead, I’m writing about how I got…
Continue readingI want to make my Windows 8 app look good. That’s hard to do for any app and even harder given the structure that everyone expects to see in a Windows 8 Store app. Here are some images that I am using for reference to help me design…
Continue readingIn 1991, I wrote DiskPie. It is a program that scans a disk drive and displays directory sizes in a pie chart. DiskPie DiskPie was written for Windows 3.1. It does not use MFC or C++ or any modern technology. Download DiskPie in a zip file. As you…
Continue readingI’ve been using Windows 8 for a few weeks now as the main operating system on three computers. I also have Windows 7, XP, Linux, and OSX iMac, computers. I’ve gotten past the initial hatred of Windows 8 and I think that I can do a reasonable and…
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