When developing an application, clearly it’s prudent to have uniformity in the manner certain tasks are carried out, thereby avoiding violation of the DRY principle. An example of this is displaying common dialog boxes. But wait, if you think this post is just going to be about an abstracted dialog box system, then think again. While Calcium does provide a common dialog system, it also allows us to display a dialog to the user from...

For the past few weeks I have been working on a new project that I have called Calcium. Today, I did a simultaneous release of the source on CodePlex and published the first of a series of three or four articles describing its inner workings. I really like this project, and I highly recommend downloading the source code and taking it for a spin. Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a...

I am pleased to announce a new release of the Clog Client Logging framework. There are several new features and enhancements. New SkipFrameCount configuration attribute for allowing Clog to be wrapped by a custom adapter. Log point short-circuiting, providing the ability to determine if a log level is enabled in order to improve performance by avoiding unnecessary string concantenation etc. Formatting overloads. Improved concurrency of log strategies. Fail safety improved. Default WCF configuration for Silverlight...

I have just published my latest article entitled Perceptor. Perceptor is an artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF. Perceptor tracks a user’s behaviour while he or she interacts with the user interface. Changes to the DataContext of a host control indicate user navigation behaviour, and induce the training of a neural network. Knowledge acquired by the neural network is used to predict the IInputElements to which a user may intend to navigate. This accelerates...

Christmas 2008 Release I am pleased to announce an exciting new release of the Clog Client Logging framework. There are lots of changes including multiple log strategy support. Changes in this release include: New config file format for easier log strategy and filter definitions. Multiple log strategy support. Log entries are dispatched to each log strategy. This allows support for multiple logging providers. For example, use Log4Net and Enterprise Library logging at the same time....