Animated GIFs

There were a couple of great articles on animated GIFs this weekend.

GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, from functional to entertainment. Now, 25 years after the first GIF was created, they are experiencing an explosion of interest and innovation that is pushing them into the terrain of art. In this episode of Off Book, we chart their history, explore the hotbed of GIF creativity on Tumblr, and talk to two teams of GIF artists who are evolving the form into powerful new visual experiences.

Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium [Video] The Comeback of Animated Gifs

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HTML5: How to ensure images are loaded before rendering them - CodeProject®

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A small trick that helps to make sure that my images are loaded before I go about rendering them

HTML5: How to ensure images are loaded before rendering them - CodeProject®

The New iPad As A Gaming Device: A Look At Infinity Blade: Dungeons, Sky Gamblers - G4tv.com

G4TV has summarized all the important information for the new iPad in one article!

The New iPad As A Gaming Device: A Look At Infinity Blade: Dungeons, Sky Gamblers - G4tv.com

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Plotting Circular Relationship Graphs with Silverlight - CodeProject®

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Introduction to Bookmarkable Article

This article describes the creation of a circular relationship graph, which plots a network of interconnected nodes as a circle.

Plotting Circular Relationship Graphs with Silverlight - CodeProject®

Tree View with "CRUD operations", "drag and drop (DnD)" and "Lazy Loading" using Dojo Tree, Entity Framework, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC - CodeProject®

This article shows how you can make a Tree with hierarchical data supporting "CRUD operations", "drag and drop (DnD)" and "Lazy Loading" using Dojo store driven Tree, Entity Framework, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC.

Tree View with "CRUD operations", "drag and drop (DnD)" and "Lazy Loading" using Dojo Tree, Entity Framework, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC - CodeProject®

Android push notification implementation using ASP.NET C#

This is definitely something to bookmark!!!

Just three steps to implement the android push notification and its easy and simple.

Android push notification implementation using ASP.NET C#

Calling Lua from Java Android using CLE - CodeProject®

This article presents a method which uses CLE middleware to call Lua from a Java application on Android

Calling Lua from Java Android using CLE - CodeProject®

Calling Python from Java for Android using CLE and SL4A - CodeProject®

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This is worth bookmarking!!

Calling Python from Java for Android using CLE and SL4A


Calling Python from Java for Android using CLE and SL4A - CodeProject®

One guideline every VB.NET project should follow! - CodeProject®

Here is an article on the importance of Option Strict...


One guideline every VB.NET project should follow! - CodeProject®

Google Is Planning Pricey Glasses With An Augmented Reality Heads-Up Display, May Sell Them By Year's End | Hello Android

I love the idea of personal heads-up displays (HUDs)! I know the goal is like what we see in Science fiction like Iron Man, but I think it's possible. My only question is what about if you already wear glasses?

Google Is Planning Pricey Glasses With An Augmented Reality Heads-Up Display, May Sell Them By Year's End | Hello Android

A Brief History of Handheld Launch Games - G4tv.com

Playstation Vita dropped today in the United States! G4TV has a great article tracing the history of launch games for the portable consoles going back to the Nintendo Gameboy in 1989!

A Brief History of Handheld Launch Games - G4tv.com

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Create OpenGL Mono For Android Application - CodeProject®

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Here is a specific article about generating Android applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010!!!

Create OpenGL Mono For Android Application - CodeProject®

Face Detection in C# - CodeProject®

Yes, we can do image processing to the point that we can can do face recognition.

Face Detection in C# - CodeProject®

Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight | Everything Silverlight

Here is a great blog post giving a tip about how to add a web service for sending e-mail from Silverlight. It makes the solution extremely easy but we must installations on the server. And unlike many tutorials on the Internet, this article explains what needs to be done and not just post the code.


Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight | Everything Silverlight

Full Steam Ahead: How Valve’s Ingenious Digital Store Has Taken Over the Gaming World

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Full Steam Ahead: How Valve’s Ingenious Digital Store Has Taken Over the Gaming World

C# equivalent of VB's With keyword - CodeProject®

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Introduction to Article by Omar Al Zabir

VB has a With keyword that you can use to save typing same variables name over and over again. Here's a similar workaround for C#

C# equivalent of VB's With keyword - CodeProject®

PlayStation Vita Guide - G4tv.com

You can read G4TV's guide to everything you need to know about Playstation Vita.



PlayStation Vita Guide - G4tv.com



Here is G4's Video showing their report on the Playstation Vita

PSV Games - E3 2012 - Uncharted: Golden Abyss

PlayStation Vita Hands-On Video: Your First Look At Sony's New Handheld

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Silverlight web comic - CodeProject®

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When the Visual Studio 2010 was still on beta I participate on a Microsoft competition from Mexico to develop an application with the new .NET framework 4.0 new the prize was a laptop. So because I like to learn new technologies (like ajax, wpf, linq, sdk of kinect, apis for google maps, google docs, Verifones TPV, fingerprints, a csc, xcode, develop for android etc). I wanted learn about silverlight because I didn't know silverlight and I like draw and I wanted my own page to create a simple comic. I ressearched if there was an existing page for create comics, but I found only a few pages, so I decide to learn silverlight and submit a silverlight application to create a webcomic for the competition.

Silverlight web comic - CodeProject®

Configure Silverlight 3 Applications using the Web.config File from ASP.NET - CodeProject®

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 Here is a good tutorial for trying to  pass information from a server to Silverlight.

Configure Silverlight 3 Applications using the Web.config File from ASP.NET - CodeProject®

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How do I programmatically create a PDF in my .NET application? - Stack Overflow

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I've got an upcoming project is which I will have to add the functionality of converting an HTML report to a PDF file. It turns out that there are a lot of .Net libraries for doing just that. I did a search on Google and came across the following link:

How do I programmatically create a PDF in my .NET application? - Stack Overflow

It does a great job of listing possibilities. Heare are the libraries that I'm gonna try out:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
http://www.winnovative-software.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/report/
http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/PDFNET/
http://www.html-to-pdf.net/
http://www.dynamicpdf.com/Dot_NET_Dynamic_PDF_Components_Libraries_Generator.csp

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HTML5 Ising Simulation - CodeProject®

Introduction to Article by Florian Rappl

Exploring a simple physics simulation of ferromagnetism with the displaying power of HTML and multi-threading over WebWorker

HTML5 Ising Simulation - CodeProject®

Notification Control in Silverlight - CodeProject®

Introduction to Article by Jawahar Suresh Babu

We used to see a Notification tool tip in Windows 7/Vista to inform something about particular context. For example, Capslock warning will be given through a balloon tip on Passwordbox, if capslock has ON. Or sometimes low battery information will be displayed on the Taskbar.

Notification Control in Silverlight - CodeProject®

Asynchronous File Upload - CodeProject®

Introduction to Article by Ali Al Omairi(Abu AlHassan)

An Ajax control that enables a user to upload a file asynchronously with extra data

Asynchronous File Upload - CodeProject®

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Simple Gestures on Android - CodeProject®

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Introduction to Article by Fredrik Bornander

How to use simple touch events to capture gestures on the Android platform

Simple Gestures on Android - CodeProject®

Zipping using System.IO.Compression - CodeProject®

Introduction to Article by Tecfield

This post shows how to create a zip package using System.IO.Compression

Zipping using System.IO.Compression - CodeProject®

App Inventor Goes Open Source with MIT | Widgets Lab

MIT Center for Mobile Learning is now live! They took over App Inventor from Google. Fun time!!!  Click: http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/developers-blogs/hal

App Inventor Goes Open Source with MIT | Widgets Lab

Android project structure (Eclipse) - CodeProject®

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Introduction to Article by Bart Dubois

Memo about structure of the android project and Support Package.

Android project structure (Eclipse) - CodeProject®

Advanced Debugging in Visual Studio - CodeProject®

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Introduction to Article by Pankaj Chamria

Many of us developers do not look beyond the basic F9, F10, F11, F5 and Watch windows while debugging in Visual Studio. Due to this we end up wasting hours debugging an issue or simulating a condition which ideally could have been achieved in a matter of minutes if we utilized the rich debugging features available out of the box in Visual Studio.

Advanced debugging tips are scattered all over the web but I thought that a consolidated list would be very useful for developers to embrace and start using the techniques.

Advanced Debugging in Visual Studio - CodeProject®