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Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition?
20, Sep 2009Creating a Web Application Project was possible only in VS standard SKU and above in VS 2008. But with VS 2008 SP1 we went ahead and added support for WAP and class libraries in Visual Web Developer Express edition SP1. You can now create WAPs by going…(read more)
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Become pencils after you pass away…
19, Sep 2009
Nadine Jarvis’s “Carbon copies”… A little morbid, but a clever idea -
Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash – a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind. Each pencil is foil stamped with the name of the person. Only one pencil can be removed at a time, it is then sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Over time the pencil box fills with sharpenings – a new ash, transforming it into an urn. The window acts as a timeline, showing you the amount of pencils left as time goes by.
Augmented Reality Pool / Pool Playing Robot
18, Sep 2009Deep Green, the pool-playing robot from the Robotics & Computer Vision lab at Queen's University has been making the rounds on other websites recently. Its robot arm uses a huge gantry to move anywhere over the table, and then a special cue stick tool to hit the ball.
It’s hugely impressive, but the size and complexity of the hardware puts it out of reach for most Makers [please -- someone prove me wrong!]. So, that’s why I was attracted to the second half of the video: The students developed an equally impressive augmented reality mode that works without the robot. By using a projector and a camera located above the table, it recognizes the position of balls. As the player moves their pool cue, the system projects the predicted trajectory of the balls right on the table. If you can hit the ball consistently, this could be a great help in visualizing & setting up complicated shots!
See also: Roomba Pool
via waxy
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Wi-Fi dowsing rod
18, Sep 2009
Dutch maker Mike Thompson designed and built this Wi-Fi dowsing rod by joining old and new to deliver a whimsically arcane device.
Todays technology advances at such a speed that often consumers are left in awe of it all. The high tech terminology, the ultra small, ultra portable, metallic or white devices we carry around with us are, to the vast amount of consumers, simply baffling. The Wifi Dowsing Rod aims to work against this. By basing the design for a wireless internet detector on century’s old technology, the user feels immediately at home with the product, whilst feeling less intimidated by the simple shape and natural materials.
[via techchee]
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On the ZendCasts site today there’s a new video looking at the Zend_Cache component of the Zend Framework and how it can be used to speed up the response time for things like calls to a web service.
This is part 4 in a four part series on Google Docs and Google maps. While this example shows how to cache a Class to a file, you could easily modify the code to work with other caching backends such as a memory-based caching engine or something like Zend Optimizer or APC.
If you want to get caught up on the series, here’s the links to part one, two and three.
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Best Practices for Managing Small Projects
15, Sep 2009Small projects, though often overlooked, can make up the bulk of the portfolio and are crucial to a company’s success. They might not involve large sums of money, but the fact is that if managed improperly, these small projects can add up to some …
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It is a known fact that if you want to commit something to memory, continuous revision is the key. You read something every time you are at your desk and within days it becomes second nature.
To be able to revise quickly and often, it helps if the info…
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13, Sep 2009
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What happens when you mix Star Wars with Cute Overload? Animals with Lightsabers, where Sith cats, Jedi dogs, and the flying squirrel answer to General Grievous duke it out.
Also over at Animals with Lightsabers are a couple of videos of canines showing off their Force powers, and pre-made lightsaber images so you can add them to your own pets’ photos.
[Animals with Lightsabers via The Official Star Wars Blog]
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Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day
12, Sep 2009Glyn Moody writes “Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, has decreed a new holiday for his country: Programmer’s Day. Appropriately enough, it will be celebrated on the 256th day of the year: September 13th (September 12th for a leap year). Do programmers deserve their own holiday ahead of other professions? Should the rest of the world follow suit?”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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