http://wpf.nickthuesen.com The Original New York Hickster Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:27:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffffff...smell that?  Nerds.  Thousands of them!  Wait...are developers even considered nerds anymore?  I know when I look in the mirror I don't see...well...it doesn't matter. If the logo to the left didn't give it away, I'm at Microsoft's Mix Convention.  Which is actually pretty exciting, because I haven't really been ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=53 Like Times Reader? Well now you can build your own! Follow the link below and you can start building your own...Syndicated Client Application! They even give you the source so if you don't want to build your own News Reader it's still a great source for some ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=45 Just installed the Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin for Wordpress. Thought I'd give it a test post. Let's see... I first read about Yahoo! Shortcuts while reading a co-workers del.icio.us feed in my Google Reader on my Cingular 3125 smartphone while sitting in my cheap Ikea chair in my apartment in Brooklyn, ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=44 So I've recently drifted away from wpf development. As a result, I've had nothing for my blog. This does give me a chance to clean house a bit though. I went through all my old blogs as well as this one and choose what I felt were ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=43 I inadvertently created this custom panel a month ago. I wanted my objects to be grouped together in a way similar to the way Media Player groups items...or so I thought. My first implementation just had an x and y offset. It also lets you specify the number of items ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=29 A proper application should have proper persistence of its windows state between sessions.  Ummm...yeah.  What I meant to say was... Don't you hate it when you close a window and the next time you start your application it's not in the same place?  Or even worse: I have a laptop that sits ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=27 So there's already people lining up around the mac store frothing at the mouth for their iphone. I jumped on craig's list and there are numerous people willing to stand in line for you...for about 250 bucks. iPhone - I Will wait on line for you - $250 Will Wait in ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=25 So I just finished reading this article: Microsoft to Alter Windows Vista My immediate response was slight disgust. You know a ton of money is being spent on this issue. And reading all of the quotes of legal officers, attorney generals, janitors, etc each throwing in their comments...it's a bit ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=24 So working for the New York Times has made nostalgic for things that were never even a part of my life.  Earlier today I caught myself thinking, "Man, I wish I worked on an old manual typewriter."  Of course I quickly realized any C# code written on a manual typewriter might have ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=23 Who knew I could go so long without daily internet access. I've been away for two and a half weeks and I've come back to find a very pleasant surprise. PC World apparently thinks Times Reader is a worthwhile application. It made number 24 on their "100 ... http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=22