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Moving existing Win 8.1 App to Win Phone 8.1 with new Universal App project – HypeMix has a go!
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blog.gripdev.xyz
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12 years ago
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This a quick and dirty write up of how I moved my existing Windows 8.1 App to Windows Phone 8.1 in a weekend. Now before we get into that I’m going to be honest and say there is still some work to do around the UI, as playing music on the phone is slightly different to a PC or Tablet. What I’m talking about here is all the rest of the work.
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Another week, another seven days of spectacular podcasts. Maybe I’m just biased, but this is my favorite medium in existence — even more beloved than television, film, and — yes, and — writing. So sit back, relax on your commute for once, and tune in to some of the best podcasts on the internet. Permalink.
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Recently, I participated in the 2014 StartupBus. I took a bus from New York City to San Antonio and then spent a few days in Austin for SXSW. I had an unforgettable experience and look forward to being active in the StartupBus community. A simple way to explain StartupBus would be: A hackathon on steroids with lots of unknown side effects. There are buses from all over the United States that compete in creating, developing and launchi....
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Should I Continue Working As A Contractor Or Go Full-time?
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12 years ago
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As usual, an interesting article from Sam Dogen at Financial Samurai. Especially within this microcosm of independent app developers and writers, it has become so common to hear the story of a full-time employee striking out on his own that this piece nearly took me by surprise: rather than leaving his large company and setting up a one-man shop, Sam is considering returning to the corporate nine-to-five lifestyle he left in 2012. Even more..
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Introduction One of the more unique features of Go is how the language implements constants. The rules for constants in the language specification are unique to Go. They provide the flexibility Go needs at the compiler level to make the code we write readable and intuitive while still maintaining a type safe language. This post will attempt to build a foundation for what numeric constants are, how they behave in their simplest fo....
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I finally installed Octopress on the new Macbook Air. Finally. My last update was a while ago. Since the Icy Walk of Creepitude the main thing that’s happened has been the trip to San Francisco for GDC 2014. This has been my third year going. This year I focused mostly on attending the tools talks - specifically the several tools roundtable/discussion sessions. I ended up meeting a few people from the other EA studios after the first talk..
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Ninject is a fantastic Dependency Injection framework for the .NET framework. You can bind to the kernel whenever you want however you…
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Last week when I wrote Hedge Yourself Before They Wreck Yourself , I talked about the regrettable situation we have found ourselves in with regards to the discourse around issues like sexism. Rather than affecting meaningful change, this community has grown into a hodgepodge of pseudo-activists more concerned with the lexicon used in furthering their professed cause than actually making any meaningful progress. Unfortunately, this diverg....
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Last weekend I participated in a capture-the-flag event sponsored by Bishop Fox and ran by students at BYU. Following the event I decided that it may be fun to try and crack the scoring software itself – so I've written up the process here to explain how I put the exploit together. Although spoofing client-side authentication tokens is nothing new (and the targeted framework in this case isn't a widespread one like Rails or something....
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From the Kickstarter: It's not every day you see this email in your inbox. WE ARE ON STEAM! Thanks everyone for your votes! We were part of a batch of 75 titles, even though we hadn't reached the top 100 yet. Go check out the other games that were greenlit today! Here are the statistics for anyone interested:
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After coming across another video on Laughing Squid of a dad using a quadracopter to pull his son’s tooth out , I found what has to be one of the coolest videos I have ever seen: Shaun O’Callaghan flew his own DJI Phantom quadcopter over an active volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, and the resulting video is awesome . Permalink.
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In a brief departure from his daily Tab Dump series, Stefan Constantinescu wrote about the LG G Flex. He did not write a review though, but instead a rather introspective essay about how the single advantage to this device and what that signaled for the future of the mobile phone industry. Quite a while has passed since the 5S came out, and even longer since Apple did anything new with their flagship phone’s form factor. We have already see..
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Spoiler alert: sexism isn’t the only social issue holding up progress within the tech industry at large. A few weeks ago, I read a great article by Yiren Lu titled Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem , where she explained how a preference for young entrepreneurs combined with the type of projects they tend to work on has created an unsustainable culture of front-end innovation built atop outmoded technology. She later went on to detail how ..
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Here is a fun puzzle. Suppose we have a group of 10 men and 10 women, and each of the men has sorted the women in order of their preference for marriage (that is, a man prefers to marry a woman earlier in his list over a woman later in the list). Likewise, each of the women has sorted the men in order of marriageability. We might ask if there is any way that we, the omniscient cupids of love, can decide who should marry to make everyone hap..
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Here is a fun puzzle. Suppose we have a group of 10 men and 10 women, and each of the men has sorted the women in order of their preference for marriage (that is, a man prefers to marry a woman earlier in his list over a woman later in the list). Likewise, each of the women has sorted the men in order of marriageability. We might ask if there is any way that we, the omniscient cupids of love, can decide who should marry to make everyone hap..
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Here is a fun puzzle. Suppose we have a group of 10 men and 10 women, and each of the men has sorted the women in order of their preference for marriage (that is, a man prefers to marry a woman earlier in his list over a woman later in the list). Likewise, each of the women has sorted the men in order of marriageability. We might ask if there is any way that we, the omniscient cupids of love, can decide who should marry to make everyone hap..
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So this happened : James just James at RedHat headquarters in North Carolina wearing his new red hat. RedHat made me an offer, and I am happy to say that I have just started this week! I am proud to have joined a company that employs many of the worlds foremost, highly professional and clever hackers . It is indubitably the best Free Software [1] / Open Source company out there, and they ship some of the greatest and most eleg..
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So this happened : James just James at RedHat headquarters in North Carolina wearing his new red hat. RedHat made me an offer, and I am happy to say that I have just started this week! I am proud to have joined a company that employs many of the worlds foremost, highly professional and clever hackers . It is indubitably the best Free Software [1] / Open Source company out there, and they ship some of the greatest and most eleg..
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From the Kickstarter: Just an update on development progress for Lemma! Thank you so much everyone for your support. I'm still getting tons of useful feedback from people playing the demo. Levels have been tweaked, bugs have been fixed, writing has been edited, and graphics have been tightened. Expect a new build very soon! Here's some new features to look forward to: First, a minor technical detail. Saved games do not carry over between..
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Since I wrote the code to these snippets I thought I may as well add them here in case I ever need them again or want to review them. As the other interview ones they are the answers to a question I was asked, slightly modified to protect the innocent. These ones are written in Python. Q. Write a function to reverse each word in a string. def reverse_each_word (words): ''' Reverse each word in a string ''' ..
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When I started this website, I did so with the same intentions many decide to set up a blog these days: post often and about topics that interest me, and link to the work of others in between. In short, I set out to model my website after the likes of John Gruber, Shawn Blanc, and Marco Arment, back when the latter two published with much more regularity. By any measure, I succeeded: I wrote regularly, posted often, and occasionally made so..
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The trend toward intentionally ignoring data that does not agree with one’s biases only continues. A 2010 article from Scientific American discussing emails received by climate scientists: Trenberth* says that is the most dispiriting aspect of the e-mails: Facts don’t carry more weight in the public debate. The nature of public discourse - be it climate change or health care - has changed; information that does not fit one’s worldview is n..
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I have been experimenting with different DIY antennas for RTLSDR since 2013,Below is my review on different antennas I have tested so far. For decoding NOAA weather satellite Signals # Quadrifilar Helix (QFH) Antenna is the most recommended antenna for APT signal reception, But I was too lazy to build one. So i decided to make a ground plane antenna with coat hanger. In my opinion GP antenna is the simplest and easy to make antenna for....
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Another day another interview. I actually have been getting some good results from them so far. In particular the last two I have been on. I will discuss them briefly. The first had an interesting coding test. Rather then asking me to solve Fizzbuzz or implement a depth first algorithm over a binary tree (seriously, I have been programming for 10 years and never needed to do that. I can, but its something I did in uni and not really appli..
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These have to be some of the coolest vehicles I have ever seen. I could definitely go for one of these, so if anyone’s offering... You know how to get in touch. Permalink.
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After last month’s post, I feared for the future viability of this series as I continued an apparent trend of finding fewer and fewer cool links for each of these issues. After the last few weeks, however, I’m convinced that those slow months were flukes: this time around, boy have I got some great cabins to show you. Let’s start with The Tiny Project , then, a small house built on a trailer that features beautiful architecture and well th..
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The coursework set for my Distributed Systems involves reading new items from RSS feeds (such as the BBC News feed or the UK traffic incident feed). To help me build the system I developed a simple service that serves up RSS feeds that are regularly automatically updated with nonsense items, and it ...
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The coursework set for my Distributed Systems involves reading new items from RSS feeds (such as the BBC News feed or the UK traffic incident feed). To help me build the system I developed a simple service that serves up RSS feeds that are regularly automatically updated with nonsense items, and it ...
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Marketing is generally unexciting to a ton of engineers, until it brings eyeballs which bring feedback and dollars. Marketing doesn’t have to always be cheesy campaigns or ads, it can often just be surfacing the things your customers actually do want to care about. My favorite type of marketing is when a service sells me on something at the exact time I want it. Here’s a few short tips on some non-traditional marketing that won’t seem sleez....
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Marketing is generally unexciting to a ton of engineers, until it brings eyeballs which bring feedback and dollars. Marketing doesn’t have to always be cheesy campaigns or ads, it can often just be surfacing the things your customers actually do want to care about. My favorite type of marketing is when a service sells me on something at the exact time I want it. Here’s a few short tips on some non-traditional marketing that won’t seem sleez....
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So far in this series we’ve seen elliptic curves from many perspectives, including the elementary, algebraic, and programmatic ones. We implemented finite field arithmetic and connected it to our elliptic curve code. So we’re in a perfect position to feast on the main course: how do we use elliptic curves to actually do cryptography? History As the reader has heard countless times in this series, an elliptic curve is a geometric object whos..
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So far in this series we’ve seen elliptic curves from many perspectives, including the elementary, algebraic, and programmatic ones. We implemented finite field arithmetic and connected it to our elliptic curve code. So we’re in a perfect position to feast on the main course: how do we use elliptic curves to actually do cryptography? History As the reader has heard countless times in this series, an elliptic curve is a geometric object whos..
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So far in this series we’ve seen elliptic curves from many perspectives, including the elementary, algebraic, and programmatic ones. We implemented finite field arithmetic and connected it to our elliptic curve code. So we’re in a perfect position to feast on the main course: how do we use elliptic curves to actually do cryptography? History As the reader has heard countless times in this series, an elliptic curve is a geometric object whos..
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In 2004, Erick Evans coined the term Domain Driven Design in his book also called Domain Driven Design. Since then there has been lots of…
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In episode fifty-eight of the Accidental Tech Podcast, Marco, John, and Casey did some follow-up on their previous episode in which they discussed — among other topics — sexism. In response to the previous week’s show, ATP 57: Smorgasbord Of Pronunciation , I wrote the gruesomely-titled Hedge Yourself Before They Wreck Yourself — a poorly-executed play on the “check yourself before you wreck yourself” cliché — wherein I talked about ..
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Given my first link, I feel the need to state this explicitly just once more : although I call this series “This Week in Podcasts”, it may be helpful to think of it as a curated list of the best podcasts I listened to within the last week rather than a similar list consisting of only those released within the last seven days. After I published the first, I expanded my scope in this way so that I could include episodes from since-retired ..
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An update from the Kickstarter: One concern that pops up a lot on Greenlight is the low quality of the player model and animations in Lemma. The reason it's so bad is that I did all of it myself, and I'm not a character artist. People ask, "but couldn't you just try harder? What's so hard about modeling and animating a character anyway? Also, couldn't you just borrow an existing public domain model?"
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Sometimes, it’s easy to focus so much on the architecture of a system that the details of its implementation get lost. While it’s true that inattention to architectural concerns can cause a system to fail, it’s also true that poor attention to the details can undermine even the best overall system design. This post covers a few minor details of code structure that I’ve found to be useful in my work: It’s a small thing, but one of my favori....
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Software is constantly changing. Bugs are fixed, features are added, performance is increased, and finally binaries are built. With this constant cycle of change come people wanting to know exactly what the changes are. Between major versions, and minor versions, we normally have release notes to give us this information. However, between release builds the list of items is in constant flux with no let up in the people wanting to know what ..
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Yes. Earlier this week, I posted a link to Ben Thompson’s three-part series on the future of newspapers and journalism. Riffing off of that theme, Josh Ginter shares some thoughts along those lines. He’s very hopeful about the future of the blogging industry, and rightly so. Permalink.
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I really, really like this. To put it in the context of writing, how about taking your best day — whether you measure that by number of articles posted or page views gained — and make that your goal every single day? It would be hard, and many would say impractical, but maintaining the same waistline for fifteen years is hard too. In both cases, though, they are worthwhile pursuits. Permalink.
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