Just a quick post today on the subject of null. Checking for null in the bane of many programming languages. And while there are some clever techniques and design patterns that can help minimise the need to do this, it’s Read more…
It’s been seven years. I’ve been busy having children, buying houses and doing a whole host of grown up things. I think it’s about time I resurrected the blog. So here I am. 😊
Just a quick post this time: I had a need to be able to reposition a WPF window when I click and dragged on a particular UIElement. The aim was to recreate the behaviour of clicking and dragging on a Read more…
I was intrigued by a post on Stack Overflow today where a developer was asking how to convert the current time to Eorzea Time, a fictional timebase used in Final Fantasy XIV’s persistent game world. I’ve never played FFXIV – Read more…
If you’re new to the async and await keywords in C# and .NET, then it’s likely you will eventually stumble across this deadlock scenario, which is difficult to debug if you’re not familiar with how async and await work under Read more…
If you’re using the MVVMLight toolkit within your WPF project, you may have come across this error message if you’re using the SimpleIoC container to help provide design-time data when working in Blend for Visual Studio: Typically within your ViewModelLocator, you Read more…
Wow, has it really been over two years since I last posted something to my blog? I have no idea where that time has gone … well, actually – I do have a tiny excuse. In October 2013 my wife Read more…
DCPs (or Digital Cinema Packages) are a fairly specialised form of distributing films and video for digital cinema. The emphasis of this format is on high-resolution, and high-quality – supporting up to 4k films encoded using the JPEG2000 codec. In Read more…
[vc_row][vc_column][us_image image=”1377″ align=”center” size=”full” link=””][vc_column_text]Here we are again. A few days ago, Apple used a rather cosy venue on their own campus to unveil the latest iteration of the iPhone, the iPhone 4S. Stepping back from all the hype surrounding Read more…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][us_image image=”1382″ size=”full” link=””][us_separator icon=”fab|apple” show_line=”1″ line_width=”default”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Midway though writing a blog entry about yesterday’s iPhone 4S launch, I’m struck with this totally unexpected news. Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple has passed away, aged 56. Steve, and Read more…