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Saturation variable function for treemaps

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

We have finished our first internship between InSTEDD and Trinity College. Juan Pablo and Qianqian did an amazing job putting together an SVM classifier using libSVM for suggesting tags inside Riff items. They tested the implementation with Reuters...

And now for something completely different

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...

WPF introduced a new concept for managing properties which is dependency properties. Dependency properties can act as standard properties, but also offer a lot more functionality, such as data binding, assignment through resources, setters in styles...

Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 introduced the WebClient class, I decided to refactor an application we had by replacing all references to HttpWebRequest with the new client. Its methods seemed much more simple and clear, and I didn’t even need to write...

Silverlight Beta 2 doesn’t support double click, but since I needed it, I implemented it. I’ve created a class named Mouse. You create a Mouse instance that wraps an UIElement. The instance attaches itself to the MouseLeftDownButton and, using a timer...