Jason Nadal

Well, after a bit of time refactoring and ironing out some functionality issues, ImageStack for Longhorn Version A is on my downloads page (the file contains source code and binaries). This is an image browser that can be scrolled through with the mouse wheel, and zoomed with a mouse click.  Change folders with the “Get Image Stack“ button.

After a suggestion from DonXML, I left the world of manually starting up LengthAnimations bound to width and height properties of a Canvas control I had implemented via code, and took up the task of learning the Timeline object.

Today's simple Longhorn dev trick?

Well, while configuring my PC to try to get some speed benefits whenever possible I came across this cool little util from Intel, sitting on that disk of stuff that came with my PC (and got ignored after I repaved it), called Intel Application Accelerator. 

Coming live from DevDays in Newark (really Secaucus), NJ:

An anonymous reader posted this link.  It's an hour-and-a-half discussion about the pentium / x86 chipsets by Architect Bob Colwell, of Intel fame given at Stanford.  This is a very interesting movie, and a fun flick for anyone interested in the lower levels of PC architecture.

I've recently been having problems with my home desktop pc (the one I use for Longhorn development), sometimes getting a “windows can't read from the boot disk; perhaps you need a new one?” type message whenever I try to get into longhorn or xp pro (after I make the selection on the boot menu). 

I figured I'd watch some movies / tv shows I had on upcoming plane rides, or just while I'm waiting (rehearsals Tuesday nights, and I'm the type of person who's perpetually early). So, I decided to learn how to encode movies onto my PPC.  (This is used to play on the PocketTV free player: