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There’s no straight way of embedding YouTube videos in Silverlight. What you can do, however, is to create a floating div over the Silverlight plugin, whose content will be the YouTube video control. For this purpose, I wrote a simple class to make...

As I told you before, performance is something desirable when programming a λ interpreter. The sustitutions we saw are made in one step. I will note the beta step as →β and a substitution step as →. For instance, (λx.x) z  →β  x[x/z]  →  z. The computations...

A couple of days ago we started working on a new visualization for Riff’s acitivity. The requirement was to find a way of representing the relationship between items tag with two or more tags, the users who were tagging and the evolution of the tags...

For those of you not familiar with a treemap, it is simply a bunch of boxes somehow arranged inside a bigger box; each of them also contains its own set of smaller boxes, and so on. Each box has an associated weight that determines its size. It is...

The Google Maps API provides a number of methods to make it easier to accomplish this task. One only has to take the time to explore them and think how to combine them to get the solution. It’s not a hard thing to do, but in case you’re a lazy guy...

Silverlight Loaded Events

InSTEDD-Trinity Internship wrap-up

With this cite of Monthy Python, I will move into another family of calculi. What’s wrong with our good ol’ λ-calculus? Nearly nothing, except if you want to implement it in a real PC. In one of the firsts posts I’ve mentioned the α-congruence. The...

It is well known in the project management world that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. This is known as Brooks’ law. An analogy is that you can’t use 9 women to make a baby in one month. A couple of days ago, at Manas we...

A useful feature for most data-bound items presenting controls is the ability to page their data, by showing only the first n elements and requesting the rest on demand as the users scrolls down the view. This is specially useful when downloading each...