Amazing! – Windows.Forms implemented on Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Written on June 27, 2007, by akafazov.
A company called Netikatech have implemented Windows.Forms over the Silverlight platform. They have ported most the controls (40+) and created demos. The snapshot above is a Windows.Forms Designer app written entirely on Silverlight. Honestly – this stuff blows me away!
After Flash, ASP.NET, AJAX and now Silverlight web UIs have be taken to a whole new [...]
Blog facelift Written on June 27, 2007, by akafazov.
The old theme WP-Andreas09 1.6 has been changed to Cutline, partially because I got bored with the old one and it didn’t work quite as good as I wanted. I have been hesitant to use those themes where the text is centered in the middle of the screen and most of the visible area is [...]
15 year old school dropout builds a windmill to provide energy for his family Written on June 26, 2007, by akafazov.
On this picture is the 19 year old William Kamkwamba who at the age of 15 dropped out of school and built his first windmill. His family didn’t have anough money to support his education but this fact didn’t discourage the young engineer. He started reading all books he could find and following his interest [...]
BizTalk services – providing rich application connectivity Written on June 26, 2007, by akafazov.
The link about points to a Channel9 interview with John Shewchuk and Dennis Pilarinos talking about BizTalk services and how it can be used to provide application interconnectivity. They look at the concept of “service bus” (SB) or “connectivity bus” which is a commonly used approch to integrate multiple application which need to talk to [...]
Phone number changed again Written on June 26, 2007, by Angel Kafazov.
I have new mobile number: +49 177 966 3428
You can still reach me under +49 176 2995 4114 but not for long.
Maria also has new mobile number: +49 177 966 3282
Bill Gates on how technology assists his work Written on June 25, 2007, by akafazov.
There is a great article in CNN where Bill Gates talks about his work style in his office and how he uses software and other technology to be productive.
If you look at this office, there isn’t much paper in it. On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can [...]
Visual Studio 2005 snippet problem Written on June 22, 2007, by akafazov.
The IDE keeps crashing on me every time I try to insert a code snippet. I have the SP1 installed but the whole environment is very unstable. I really like VS2003 better. I hope that the VS2008 UI will be more responsive, most of the bugs should be fixed and the help system should be [...]
Dean’s code highlighter modification Written on June 21, 2007, by akafazov.
Changed the height of the code snippets to accommodate the whole code in the Dean’s hightlighting plugin for WordPress. To make the change edit the function ch_highlight_code function and replace
if ($cur_lines > ch_go(‘ch_in_maxline’))
{
$overall_style.=’height:’ . ch_go(‘ch_in_height’) .’px;’;
} else {
$overall_style.=’height:100%;’;
}
with
$overall_style.=’height:100%;’;
Power vs. Force Written on June 15, 2007, by Angel Kafazov.
Yesterday I finished reading this great book from Dr. David R. Hawkins called Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior. I highly recommend it to everybody.
Dr. Hawkins talks about human consciousness and shows a scientifically proven method for discerning right from wrong based on the consciousness itself. Based on this method and on [...]
Using System.Reflection to invoke methods in external assembly Written on June 14, 2007, by akafazov.
Using the System.Reflection namespace is quite useful in many situations, for example invoking methods in assemblies other than the current one which cannot be referenced directly. Using the Assembly, Type and MethodInfo classes this is done easily. It is useful is scenarious like the following:
Project1 contains code for control library and builds P1.dll
Project2 uses the [...]