I’ve finally taken out the time to properly learn about the subversion “trunk, branches, and tags” structure. So while its fresh in my head I thought I’d blog about a common scenario with an extremely contrived example. New to Subversion? Here’s the links that got me started: Version Control with Subversion – a free book […]
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 for short) was recently mentioned on the IT Conversations podcast episode A Web-Scale Computing Architecture. EC2 looks very similar to a Virtual Private Server hosting service – where you rent a virtualized server. On top of this service is a webservice giving you the ability to dynamically create, stop […]
Here’s a problem I ran into today. If you have an attribute on the property of a base class; are you able to read it via PropertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes on the properties of a subclass. Here’s where it helps to read the fine print. PropertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes takes a parameter for ‘inherit’ – yet the reference for PropertyInfo contains […]
Spotted this illusion on digg: The anatomy of an illusion — and what it tells us about the visual system. Being the skepical fellow I am – I decided to recreate this illusion. The animation is simply cycling the colours of inner circles. From/to the frames below. So, here’s my Silverlight version of the animated […]