Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/index.php

First time I've seen this really cool interactive tool. Sure, puts my and everyone else's 'center of the universe' thing in perspective :-)

Destin Elementary School is an A+ School for the 9th year in a row!

Based on the FCAT scores of the class of 2009-2010, Destin Elementary School has been named an A+ School. As a reward for the concerted efforts of the faculty and staff of Destin, we have been presented through the 2010 Florida School Recognition Program a monetary award of $63,638. Read more at http://bit.ly/c6rDOa

Blackberry Playbook: iPad Killer ?

Powered by an powerful Dual-core 1 GHz processor and sleek BlackBerry Tablet OS supporting POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry® 6, WebKit, Adobe Flash, Java® and Adobe Mobile AIR technologies the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Computer has now been revealed on an hands-on video. After watching the video and jaw dropping spec sheet the question remain: Can this tablet be a serious competition for the Apple iPad, Windows 7 and Android Tablets?


See more at: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/playbook-tablet/

Easy to use software router for Windows 7 computers

Connectify is an easy to use software router for Windows 7 computers. After downloading and installing the lightweight application, Connectify utilizes your computers' built in Wi-Fi card to wirelessly share any available Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices including laptops, smart phones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption.

Download here: http://connectify.me/

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgrAOuiWuk&feature=player_embedded#!

   

WPF

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is really kicking my butt!  Whew! I'm just glad that the Internet is full of people that selflessly (I would like to think) shares their code solutions to problems that they've encountered. Without their help, I'd be totally LOST! God bless them all!

SkinPut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3XPUdW9Ryg

This is a good idea. I wonder when inventors will start utilizing facial gestures to control devices. Now, that would be something. To 'sleep' my computer all I have to do is imitate a yawn, and presto! the computer goes to 'sleep'. Fascinating.

Meaningful code comments...

Nothing frustrates me more than looking at someone else's code and searching for that elusive bug that killed part of the application.

The code I looked at yesterday is  undocumented and did not use any of the standard naming conventions for C# which makes it doubly hard! Well, to be truthful there was some comments here and there but the way the comments were written is what ticks me off. Here's a sample:

// If index @ 0 not equal to mLinks count
if (ckbSkip.Checked
   && mLinks.SelectedItems[0].Index != mLinks.Items.Count - 1)
{
  mLinks.Items[mLinks.SelectedItems[0].Index + 1].Selected = true;
  mLinks.SelectedItems[0].Selected = false;
}

Did you see what I meant?

The comment alone wasn't very helpful, at all!

It could have been written in this manner:

//if user wants to skip to next mfg
//and we are not at end of list, go ahead
if (ckbSkip.Checked
   && mLinks.SelectedItems[0].Index != mLinks.Items.Count - 1)
{
  mLinks.Items[mLinks.SelectedItems[0].Index + 1].Selected = true;
  mLinks.SelectedItems[0].Selected = false;
}

Code comments should say 'why' it is written that way and the code itself shows 'how' it's done.