A handful of ex-Googlies have set up a new search engine which they reckon is going to beat Google.
Hmmm. Well, I saw this mentioned on BBC News earlier today but didn’t bother checking it out. Then I saw a thread about it on Telford Live so I thought I’d best give it a whirl seeing as how people are talking about it.
What a sack of cack.
A seach for Telford Live comes up with an image that has no relevance to the website. Searching for “wonkos world” comes up with some random sites (more…)
I don’t think I will ever get over just how much easier it is to do some things in a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application than it is in a Windows application.
I was messing around with changing the background colour of a button to see what could be done. I ended up looking at how to apply a gradient to be the background of a button and realized that doing gradients with Visual Basic was just about as easy, if not easier, than creating them by modifying XAML markup. (You could also easily create gradients for the background properties of co (more…)
I mentioned in an earlier post that for a control in a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that you had to give each control that you wanted to write code behind for a name in the XAML of the form.
Strictly this is not true. If you want don’t want to use the built in features of the Visual Studio’s IDE for selecting classes and methods on the code behind page you could type in the code on the code behind yourself.
For me, at least, the easiest way to reach the code behind is to give each contr (more…)
Sometimes it seems like everyone in the IT world thinks they’re a psychic - every other day there’s some headline declaring the imminent death or arrival of something computer related.
This time it’s the turn of the humble mouse. Not the little rodent that goes squeak squeak, can’t stand cheese and craps in your cereal - the computer mouse, first developed by Xerox and a seemingly inseperable part of the computer system. But if Gartner is to be believed, the mouse is facing extinction as new gesture and touch technology comes to the (more…)
A while back I posted up about showing more interesting content on that tab of a tab control using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
In the example that I posted, I created the custom look of the tab control just using XAML and I thought that it would be good to also show how to do the same thing using Visual Basic.
To do this I decided to cut back to the basics for the content of the tabs and I started with a tab control with four tabs. The first tab had a textblock with some text as well as a couple style blocks (more…)
