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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...

Explicit Substitutions, or Substitutions If You Need to Implement Them

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...

Saturation variable function for treemaps

Positioning a Google Map according to a set of coordinates

A common scenario in the development of GUI applications is the presence of different events fired by the engine as the visual tree is constructed and rendered. And Silverlight, of course, is no exception. While WPF provides Initialized and Loaded

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...

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...

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