Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
Rockin' it old school...
When you get to be my age, you sometimes wonder whether you can still do what you could do when you...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2007
Windows Movie Maker and DVD Maker SDK released...
We've released an SDK that lets you extend the Vista versions of movie maker and DVD maker, though I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2007
Missing columns...
Over the past month or so, I've been getting a number of requests for back columns that I wrote. If,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/08/2007
The size of a house...
What do you do if you need to move a 200 ton, 9.8 m diameter spectrometer 400 km between two german...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/06/2007
Beginning Developer Learning Center
Another dev center launches... Beginning Developer Learning Center Looks nice
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/01/2007
I've been found out...
I was trying to keep my intentions hidden, but Dan has disclosed them. I've been trying to look like...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/01/2007
Reducing the risk of codevelopment
Software is always built on other software - your dependencies - and the dependencies that you...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/01/2007
Windows DVD Maker SDK Information
A few things got mixed up in documenting some DVD Maker stuff, so I thought I'd like to the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/01/2007
MSDN Regular Expression Forum
There's now an MSDN Regular Expression Forum
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/01/2007
Performance Problems Survey
Rico (who I am currently listening to on a new episode of "Behind the Code") posted an interesting...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/27/2007
Taking snapshots of WPF animation
I've been playing around with WPF animation, and ended up wanting to take a snapshot of an animation...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/27/2007
Back on the 'sauce
My grandfather on my mother's side was an orchardist, growing apples and pears just outside of...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/08/2007
Where is the file menu in Word?
In case you're as stupid as I am... You get to the file menu operations in the new Word by clicking...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/02/2007
More on properties vs fields
Some nice comments on what I wrote. First, a non-controversial question. Robin asked whether you...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/02/2007
Properties vs public fields redux...
My blog reader burped recently, and gave forth a post (and reply) than Rico wrote last September,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/01/2007
Planning Poker
We've been spending some time trying to figure out what our team can get accomplished in the next 6...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/30/2007
Hardware debugging - fixin' the Meteor
Last fall, one of my friends accepted a job offer back east and needed to put his possessions on a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/23/2007
Musing about Windows and Development
Have you ever wondered why "shut down" is on the "start" menu? Has the dialog manager confused and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/23/2007
Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation
Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/22/2007
CLR add-in blog
If you've ever written - or considered writing - an application that needs to host add-ins, I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/15/2007
XNA
I've been meaning to write a post about XNA for quite a while now. I mean, "XNA Game Studio...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/03/2007
New gamertag...
When I set up my new xbox 360, I decided to create a new account. You can find me as Triabolical.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/03/2007
Name that card game
I'm looking for help finding out the name of a card game. It's know to us as the "Bob and Sandy"...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/01/2007
Cycling 2006 and 2007
I spent some time playing around with my Polar Software to get some summaries for the last year....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/28/2006
Holiday Greetings
From Christmas in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/19/2006
Classic rock test
If you're as old as I am, you should Test your classic rock knowledge I scored 74%
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/11/2006
The siren song of reuse...
We've been doing some planning 'round these parts - planning that I unfortunately can't talk about -...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/05/2006
Zeno
Tonight, I was doing a crossword that had a clue related to Zeno. As I've noted before, I went to a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/05/2006
Obvious news story of the day...
More indication that there isn't 24 hours worth of news out there. Today while I was working out I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/29/2006
Reading switches from the parallel port
I've been working on a side project that requires me to sense the state of a few mechanical switches...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/02/2006
TED
Every year, there is a convention known as TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design - that invites a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/31/2006
Trumpet Lamp
The PTA at my daughter's middle school is having an auction next week, and her band teacher came...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/30/2006
Tour of the Evergreens
There's a group organized to put on a yearly stage race in Washington State. Tour of the Evergreens...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/18/2006
Avalon tip of the day
When an Avalon app starts up, it parses the XAML file, and as it parses the file, it creates the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/16/2006
Word of the day - Humorish
Humorish Having the shape or form of humor without actually being funny. I coined it this morning at...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/13/2006
scrumbut
As somebody who is interested in Scrum but hasn't yet had a chance to try it, I've been paying...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/13/2006
Getting started with Windows Presentation Framework (aka Avalon)
I'm starting to play around with Avalon (a name that I'll continue to use because of the savings of...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/10/2006
Opportunity rover from space...
This is pretty cool stuff.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/06/2006
CSS Tools
You may have noticed that my blog page has changed appearance - this is part of a switch to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/06/2006
The psychology of arbitrary limits
NewsGator - which I use to fetch blog posts - today decided to fetch an August third post for me. At...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/04/2006
Agile development and the Software Researcher
A while back I came across this post about agile. I originally was going to write a comment about...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/03/2006
Studious sloth
Yesterday, I had the chance to go on the Kitsap Kolor Klassic (really, the Kitsap Color Classic),...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/02/2006
Marmaduke Explained
I did my time with the liberal arts, and I've got the papers to prove it. I'm down with Plato and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/26/2006
Sandcastle - MSDN-style docs for your assemblies
For a long time, whenever I spent time with C# customers, I would invariably get asked, "How do I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/26/2006
White and Nerdy
White and Nerdy I will not comment on how many of these apply to me...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/21/2006