A bit of light reading while you digest your turkey sandwiches… Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Arrays considered somewhat harmful Eric Lippert argues that "In almost every case, there is a better tool to use than an array.” He argues that arrays lead to poor programming practice and are the enemy...
Microsoft has launched its World Wide Telescope project , a free downloadable education/science application from Microsoft Research. This interesting project brings together lots of disparate data sources and also references another technology that I am deeply involved in, ASCOM (or, Astronomy Common...
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Via David Overton , there's a preview of Microsoft's " SeaDragon " technology which is a way to do deep zooming on images over the Internet and streaming exactly the right amount of data into the browser for whatever zoom level you're at. The effect is sort of like Google Earth...
I was watching the Bill Gates keynote at CES the other day when one of the presenters gave a demo of Windows Live Photo Gallery stitching together a mosaic of images into a single panorama. I have a few panoramic images so I thought I'd give it a go, and I am so impressed with it! I decided to give...