A roundup of my Google+ posts by category
I have now been working on Google+ for about 3 months – boy how the time flies. Since starting, I have tried to grasp the core technologies for Google+ and been careful to document my learning in this blog. The…
Quick Demo: Back-filling moments to Google+ History
We talked about it briefly before, but it’s now possible to write moments in the past so that publishers can back-fill a user’s history with all the moments that they could have created. The following code shows an example payload…
Using the Google .NET client library with Google+
Overview IMPORTANT NOTE: This post covers old information on the client libraries. Please read this post for updated information. The first time you use Google+ and .NET, it can be a little tricky to…
CanvasChart.js, my HTML5/JS Charting Library
For a Windows 8 sample I was working on (the example Stocks App) I needed to produce a first-party library for charting the actual stocks. The following video shows the library I created: There have been various bug fixes and…
Metro Lights out Solver
In a previous post on creating the Metro lights out game, I mentioned the solver. The solver is intended to demonstrate a solution to the current game state. Had I just wanted to demonstrate the solution to a specific puzzle,…
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:…
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…
Netflix Queue Sorter in C#/WinForms
Roughly three years ago, I coded my first OAuth / RESTful application. It was a utility for Netflix that would sort the “Instant” queue of movies that I had in my list. I did this because my obsessive compulsive roommate…
Building a simple game using XAML/C#: Part 4 – Make it fun
At this point, you have a simple version of a “Simon” game that works: you can start, restart, win, and lose. That said, the game still lacks the pizazz that really could make it stand out as something fresh and…
Rendering comments from Google+ related to a post (or URL!)
In my previous post on retrieving Google+ activity and comment data, I looked into aggregating comments from posts using the Google+ REST API. As useful as that is for specific posts, I was interested in pulling in “related” comments and…