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Content-Aware Image Sizing - WOW
23 August 2007 in Programming & Software | Comments (1)

I was just sent to this movie on YouTube, and I must say I was really impressed.

Basicly its a application to resize images in a way that the content is preserved intelligently, thus keeping its key elements on a resolution independent basis.

You just need to see for yourself:

Apparently this software was created by Dr. Ariel Shamir and presented at this year’s SIGGRAPH.

Duck Typing in C#
22 August 2007 in Programming | Comments (0)

I recently found a .NET class library that enables duck typing by David Meyer for .NET languages like C# and VB.NET.

Although I see the benefits of using this style of programming (mostly because VB was one my first programming languages), I still find the strong typing that exists on C# very helpful by providing a extra security layer in its data structures (while we still can use the duck typing approach with generics).

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to elaborate on the subject, but I would point you out this Phil Haack post: “How Duck Typing benefits C# developers”. It gives a good explanation on the subject and talks about some of its advantages.

Magic Carpet
22 August 2007 in Programming & WebDev | Comments (0)

A new Papervision sample just got featured on their blog, and its certainly interesting. This code is Manuel Bua’s work, witch combines Papervision with APE (Actionscript Physics Engine).

The physics are really cool, and its quite funny to play with this. The interest goes to the realtime image compositing and post-processing.

You can play with it here, and get all the source code here.

Microsoft Web Experience DVD Released
21 August 2007 in Microsoft & Programming | Comments (0)

The new ”Microsoft Web Experience DVD” got released.

It comes with a bunch of development resources, a Expression Studio trial on Virtual PC and some Expression training material. For more information check this post.

C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines
18 August 2007 in Programming | Comments (0)

Steve Sartain, an senior architect at Iridium Software, has created and published a nice document with over 100 pages long with a complete guideline for .NET code. The ”C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines” can be freely downloaded here.

Although its more of a guidelines suggestion, I personally wouldn’t make any change.