Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
Introduction to HealthVault Development #4 – Storing and retrieving weights
We are now ready to make our WeightTracker application do something useful. That something useful is...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/23/2009
New computer
I've shot a fair number of pictures this last year - mostly of my daughter's sports. My camera is a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/22/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring our application
Now that we have HelloWorld set up and running, we want to move on to developing the real...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/16/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #2: Hello World
In this post, we’ll create an account on the HealthVault system, open up the HelloWorld sample...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/08/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #1: Introduction
Welcome to the tutorial. In this tutorial, we will develop a HealthVault application from scratch....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/08/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #0: Background
Coding without a net Over the years, I’ve attended a number of talks that show you how easy it is to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/08/2009
Retro gaming at its best...
Back when I was in high school, in the early 1980s, was when I was first introduced to computer...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/28/2008
Holiday Lights 2008
Today, I took a break in the snow and finished the installation of the new light display. It's...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/19/2008
Holiday light project 2008 in pictures
A trip through the new project in pictures: I was late in getting started on the project due to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/19/2008
Benchmarking, C++, and C# Micro-optimizations
Two posts (1 2) on C# loop optimization got me thinking recently. Thinking about what I did when I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/01/2008
Holiday light project 2008...
I've been searching for a new project to do for this season's holiday lights. I typically have four...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/25/2008
Brilliant...
I've been doing some electronics recently, and perhaps I'm therefore more likely to treat this...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/07/2008
What's going on now...
If you want to keep track of what's going on right now, you need this site...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/06/2008
wireless LCD photo frame...
I want to buy a couple of wireless LCD photo frames for my relatives. It needs to have a decent...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/30/2008
Versioning in HealthVault
Download the sample code from MSDN Code Gallery. [Note that EncounterOld has been renamed to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/13/2008
100 skills every one should know...
Popular Mechanics has a list of "100 skills every one should know". How many have you have? (I'll...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/03/2008
Triathlon report
For your "enjoyment", a report on the Triathlon I did last Sunday...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/26/2008
TV Calibration
A few years, ago, I bought one of the last high-end rear-projection TVs based on CRTs - a Pioneer...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/15/2008
A box of toys...
I am a box of toys and notions. Among other things, I contain a hard box full of legos and a gross...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/11/2008
Fun with HealthVault transforms
It is sometimes useful to be able to display data in an application without having to understand the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/27/2008
Fantastic contraption
I apologize ahead of time Fantastic Contraption...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/26/2008
In praise of boredom...
Raymond wrote an interesting post about the erosion of the car trip experience. Along with the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/17/2008
Dr. Horrible...
Last night I fixed the quicktime player on my somewhat aging home machine by turning of DirectX...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/31/2008
HealthVault data type design...
From the "perhaps this might be interesting" file... Since the end of the HealthVault Solution...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/29/2008
Seattle Century 2008 ride report
Seattle Century 2008 ride report
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/28/2008
Progrography
Back when I first started listening to music - in the days before there were CDs - if you were cool...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/24/2008
#region. Sliced bread or sliced worms?
(editors note: Eric gave me several different options to use instead of sliced worms, but they were...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/10/2008
Taking on dependencies
A recent discussion on how to deal with dependencies when you're an agile team got me thinking......
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/08/2008
Why does C# always use callvirt? - followup
I was responding in comments, but it doesn't allow me to use links, so here's the long version:...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/07/2008
Why does C# always use callvirt?
This question came up on an internal C# alias, and I thought the answer would be of general...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/02/2008
Looj Review
As many of you know, we have lived with a Roomba for a few years. He's been a faithful servent,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/22/2008
Again
I was really just trying to get people to smile when they read about it. Last Sunday night (the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/16/2008
Conference wrap-up...
After a bit of time to recover from my back-to-back conferences (TechEd 2008 in Orlando and the 2008...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/15/2008
Answering a question nobody asked...
I'm on a break between sessions at TechEd, downstairs in one of the cavernous halls. Something like...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/05/2008
My TechEd Presentations...
I've been working on my TechEd HealthVault development slides for the past week or so. I'm taking...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/21/2008
Individual Empowerment and agile...
(Interestingly, I find myself writing more about agile and team stuff now that I'm not on a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/28/2008
HealthVault Vocabulary Browser
I wrote a little utility to browse vocabularies that I thought you might be interested in. It uses...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/25/2008
Uncanny valley
Try this on your second monitor... (yes, I know it's not fully rendered, but "Ew")
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/31/2008
International Dance Party
What a nice build. Make sure to watch the video: International Dance Party and you might want to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/25/2008
Project managers for agile teams...
A recent question about skill requirements for project managers of agile teams led me to write this:...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/20/2008
Job openings in the HealthVault team...
Long-time readers (who I like to refer to as "those three guys") know that I rarely blog about job...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/12/2008
Scheming for Schema
As many of you know, we already provide access to the schema for the healthvault types through the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/11/2008
Work on your Vocabulary. The word for today is "CodableValue"
Vocabulary and CodableValue are two of the somewhat interesting types in the HealthVault platform,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/06/2008
Dealing with PersonalImage
PersonalImage is a type that encapsulates the picture that shows up for a person in the health...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/06/2008
HealthVault and openness
Yesterday - while I was taking a day off skiing with my wife and daughter - we announced our plans...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/21/2008