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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...

Refactoring to WebClient

Adding double click support in Silverlight

Binding Lights

This week a nice coincidence made possible that I met personally Taha Kass-Hout in DC. We’ve been working for InSTEDD creating a collaborative disease detection and surveillance platform with some machine learning tools. Luckily the restaurant’s tablecloth...

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Breaking Changes

One of the current most interesting technologies around is Microsoft Silverlight, whose intention is to provide a programmer and designer friendly way to develop web UIs. It is basically a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation, although it has...

How to create "recursive" functions in λ-calculus

Today we had the orientation presentation for an Internship that two students from Trinity College will be doing around Riff/RNA. They will be helping us build some classification tools involving machine learning with SVM’s and Bayesian classifiers...