Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT)
adventures with the Windows Imaging Component
The long awaited Imagine Cup Press Release!
As Julia points out, I had a difficult time telling people that I had won the Imagine Cup since...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/10/2003
Some more information about Imagine Cup
There is finally an official website up for the Image Cup Competition:...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/10/2003
Agreed! Performance is CRITICAL!
Sam points out two great articles on MSDN about Performance considerations when writing Managed...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/07/2003
More bickering on the Java "standards" front
One thing for sure, Java doesn't have the ECMA and ISO standardization that C# and the CLI has. If...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/01/2003
More on RSS.NET
I'd like to thank George Tsiokos for adding me to the SourceForge project for the RSS.NET...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/31/2003
Windows CE .NET...
Amidst my Ph.D. Qualifiers, I've been tempted to play with Windows CE .NET 4.1 (not the latest...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/31/2003
Ph.D. Qualifier Exams...
Today I had the first of three parts to my Ph.D. Quals. Let me put it to you this way, they stink....
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/28/2003
RSS .NET
I'm sorta mad at myself now... I spent the past day or two writing my own RSS 2.0 writer, and today...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/26/2003
Seeking revenge?
Try the etherkiller and other misc. "killer" items.
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/26/2003
2003 Salary Survey
I found this in the latest issue of Visual Studio Magazine. It's the 2003 Salary Survey. Pretty cool...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/24/2003
Hmm... not a bad deal...
So, it seems that this Microsoft licensing of SCO that I mentioned in my blog yesterday may actually...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/20/2003
Stony Brook CS Reunion
Wow, I guess this is a sign of getting old. Last night I met up with Prof. Peter Henderson and a few...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/20/2003
Applied XML Conference
Coming soon to a theather near [only a flight away from] you... the Applied XML Conference, July...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/19/2003
Microsoft licenses SCO Unix
Huh?!?! Microsoft is said to be licensing SCO Unix Does this mean that we'll see some changes in...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/19/2003
DFA Tree for .NET
I saw this earlier today. It's a DFA generator for .NET. This looks like a really cool tool for...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/14/2003
More info on my String Normalization algorithm
Starting last Friday I ended up working on a StringNormalizationList data structure that...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/13/2003
I feel bad that...
... I haven't blogged recently. I guess just way too much is going on right now. I've got this one...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/13/2003
Another project...
From the start of this semester I've been also working on what I call a "Name Normalization"...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/05/2003
More info on the International Imagine Cup...
So today I found out that for the International Competition we are allowed to make updates as per...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/05/2003
Reactions to the day...
The response to my announcement with regards to being the winner of the Imagine Cup 2003 competition...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/29/2003
Day 2 of 2 @ Microsoft
Ok, this is a bit late, but still relevant. First I'll begin by sending a shot out to Scott for the...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/28/2003
Day 1 of 2 @ Microsoft
It's great being back here at Microsoft. Quite a nostalgic feeling from the last time when I was...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/26/2003
Off to Microsoft later today...
Here comes the news that I've been holding out on for about a week and half now... Microsoft is...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/24/2003
64-bit SQL & Windows 2003 Server
Ok, this is just insane and amazing at the same time! Way to go 64-bit SQL Server on Windows 2003...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/24/2003
In response to...
James writes in his blog about IE and some feature requests... Well a while ago I found this little...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/21/2003
GDI+ Kicks some serious butt!
Within this Photo Album WS, I've been working with GDI+ quite a bit lately... and wow, it really...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/21/2003
Annoying thing happening with AutoScroll...
This AutoScroll feature on controls that are ScrollableControls is pretty neat, but there is a...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/13/2003
Microsoft's Greenwich IM
On Thursday, c|net had an article on Microsoft's planned release of its Greenwich corporate IM...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/12/2003
Ok, I hate to do this but...
I feel really bad doing this... but my Outlook XP decided to corrupt my PST file the other night so...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/12/2003
More on security
After looking through the links to my previous post, I noticed that G. Andrew Duthie referred to it...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/10/2003
Odd error in consuming Web Service
Ok, this is really wierd. In my Photo Album Admin application I call the Photo Album WS. For one of...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/08/2003
Argh!!!
Ok, this weekend I feel like I've gotten no work done. I've been working on class projects. One of...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/06/2003
More updates planned for the Photo Album WS
Last night I wrote a little test app to add copyright/watermarking to a photo. I've wanted to add...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/04/2003
USB LCD for your PC
Ok, I'm thinking to myself... "How cool would it be to have one of the 4 line, blue and white LCDs...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/03/2003
My code's controlled in my Vault
For the longest time I've been meaning to finally purchase Sourcegear's Vault, so finally today I...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/03/2003
Aw yeah!
Woohoo!! C# gets ISO standardization! This is certainly a huge win for the entire .NET and C#...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/02/2003
Some interest in the Photo Album WS
There has been some interest by some out there in my Photo Album WS. As promised, I would delve into...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/02/2003
Always something with memory management...
I've been working on this Photo Album Web Service for some time now. I started it about a year ago,...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/02/2003
Thank you Scott!
First, I'd like to thank Scott for generously providing this blog space. I've wanted to start...
Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/01/2003