Monthly Archives: September 2007

WPF Title Animator

By Nicholas | Published: September 27, 2007
Let me just say, for the record, that WPF is awesome.  It manages to blend the best web design strategies with the power and flexibility of desktop (so-called "smart client") applications, and then go above and beyond to provide a visual framework that can visually stunning, yet flexible enough to meet the demands of data-driven [...]
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Things You Learn in Engineering

By Nicholas | Published: September 26, 2007
I’m not entirely sure how this got started, but as far as I can remember it went something like this.  A friend of mine and I got to talking about how there were a ton of things that we learned in Engineering that no orientation package would ever tell you.  One thing led to another, [...]
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Coldfire: The Computer Engineering Experience

By Nicholas | Published: September 23, 2007
After wasting what seemed like an eternity and actually ended up being 100+ hours in a dingy lab over the course of one week (and without missing classes, I might add), my group and I finished most of an operating system. It worked pretty well, though it was prone to crashes and didn’t particularly like [...]
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IEEE Referencing with Office 2007

By Nicholas | Published: September 20, 2007
Almost every work term, I have to write a large technical report for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Waterloo investigating a problem I encountered on that work term. I won’t go in to the details, but needless to say, it’s always a lot of hassle and quite a bit of [...]
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