Archive for February, 2008

Please, no more fucking social networking sites

Nope, I don’t care if all you’re best photos are on the site. No, I don’t care to try the latest facebook application. I get enough spam already. I get enough calls from recruiters already. I really don’t care to get in touch with former classmates. I already removed myself from [...]

The next slum: slumburbia

For 60 years, Americans have pushed steadily into the suburbs, transforming the landscape and (until recently) leaving cities behind. But today the pendulum is swinging back toward urban living, and there are many reasons to believe this swing will continue. As it does, many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and [...]

Star eats neighbor star and burps a planet.

Well, not exactly…

but it’s fun to say. Check the article

Technology Makes the instrument

The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface.

.NET Domain Object validation through delegation

Over the years I’ve seen a dozen different ways to validate domain objects in any MVC framework. Everyone has got their own favorite method. I’ve recently been presented with the same problem again and recalled a particularly elegant solution I implemented once in C# that I figured I would share.
The delegate accepts a [...]