How to upgrade to an SSD on a Sony Vaio VPCSA
I recently saw a sweet deal on the Intel 320 series SSD and decided it was a good time to upgrade to solid state on my Vaio laptop, a VPCSA – which is quite a nice ultrabook, by the way….
Rehash: 8 great traits of Metro style apps
One of the most impactful presentations at the BUILD conference was Jensen Harris’ 8 great traits talk. In this talk, Jensen locks down on the 8 most important things for developers and designers to be aware of when creating and porting…
JavaScript: the programming language of the future
I have recently been gushing about how JavaScript is changing everything for developers and typically am greeted with an odd glare when I do this. So, I am going to summarize the reasons my mind has been blown by JavaScript:…
Random mixtapes
I mention in my bio that I enjoy DJing, so why not share some of my mixtapes
How to mount and browse Windows backups from the backup and restore tool
I was recently doing data recovery for my parents on Thanksgiving and they told me they had no idea how to get to their backups, stored on an external drive, and see what was actually backed up. Not knowing what…
The “Piler” app demo that I created in 2007-2008
This video is just a simple demo that I created to demonstrate a UI metaphor for a multitouch project I worked on a while ago. The intent of the app was to let users sort and arrange a stack of…
Demo of my CoCollage clone using Twilio
Just a brief video of me showing off the CoCollage clone that I created using Twilio and the Windows SDK. You can read more about the actual app and code here: TwilioCollage: Programming the AppBar with RESTful services
A simple C# factory example
This simple example is an attempt at demonstrating the factory pattern. The key point of the following code is that the client (Program.Main) doesn’t need to know about the state of the producers (Gus and TheMan) in order to get…