You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been actively writing here for some time. I’m taking a bit of a break from updating this site at the moment. I’m keeping busy with a number of other projects, both personal and professional, but I do hope to start blogging here again in the...
Before I start, a word about this website. It has mostly sat abandoned, as having a full-time software development job doesn’t leave me with the comparatively endless amounts of free time and mental bandwidth I once had. What remains, in terms of screen time, is usually spent working ...
"Parameter is not valid" - new Bitmap() "Recursive write lock acquisitions not allowed in this mode.? "Settings" in DLL project properties and app.config file "The function evaluation requires all threads to run" while accessing music library through wmp.dll "The left-hand side of an as...
The traffic between virtual machines in the peered virtual networks is routed through the Microsoft backbone infrastructure, much like traffic is routed between virtual machines in the same virtual network, through private IP addresses only. Global vNet peering is vNet peering when each virtual network...
Can one identify the design patterns of Mathematica? Mathematica style guide? General strategies to write big code in Mathematica? Granular versus terse coding What is in your Mathematica Toolbag General tricks A New Mathematica Programming Style: Functional-Procedural Fusion http:...
But if I plug this path into the Run command or in a command prompt, I get a message that it can't be found. I took this a step further and passed the path to the constructor of the System.IO.FileInfo object and queried the "Exists" method - it came back true (the file is ...
Highly recommended is full Windows XP compatibility using a virtualization layer. This way you can change big portions of the OS and still keep the backwards compatibility. clean up the ui design, create a better user experience Small things, like 'please put an eject button near an u...
Bilingual word productionPicture namingBilinguals are slower when naming a picture in their second language than when naming it in their first language. Although the phenomenon has been frequently replicated, it is not known what causes the delay in the second language. In this article we discuss ...
After we got those logistics, we met at the Diamond Shoals Restaurant in Buxton for our first get-together with introductions and food sampling. Based on the amounts eaten, sampling is probably not the right word but real fresh local seafood is a treat too long withheld. While not exactly ...
The plan was always to flip the house, so the 13 months before the house was put back on the market were almost certainly used in renovation or design work that did not require permits. Again, kitchen and baths can be redone without permits so long as nothing is moved. The Google eventu...