XAML: Not Just for UI
XAML is somewhat of a niche language: developers outside of the .NET world rarely have heard of it, and those that have heard about it – .NET developers or not – often treat it as a language used exclusively for UI design. So it’s mostly those of us in the XAML niche – those …
Nicholas on Channel 9!
Welcome to everyone coming across this blog after seeing me speak with Adam Kinney about photoSuru.
The "I didn't know it could do that" WPF Post
A collection of techniques I’d have never guessed about WPF, but that together make it way easier to work on WPF projects.
The Trouble with WPF
WPF gives you dozens of different ways to do almost everything - but often, one way is strongly preferred. I explore documenting the ways that are best for the long run.
Microsoft == Royalty?
Joel Spolsky talks about how developers should only have to worry about developing applications, and not all the day-to-day minutia that is also involved in making software. After one a week at Microsoft, I can tell you that Microsoft does an excellent job of doing just that.
The Interview Stats are In
Talk to any co-op at Waterloo and they’ll tell you that the best, and the worst, thing about Waterloo is co-op. Here are the results of my fifth-term interview process.
WPF Title Animator
The title animator is a simple WPF application for displaying movie-credits style text using WPF animations.
Things You Learn in Engineering
An unofficial list (in an official-looking format) of things that you’ll learn in UW Engineering, from my personal experiences.
Coldfire: The Computer Engineering Experience
A desktop background commemorating the 100+ hours my group members and I spent in a dingy lab working on Motorola Coldfire boards for our operating systems course.
IEEE Referencing with Office 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 …
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