…take 200 pictures on your first day. Well, that’s what we did, but we won’t inflict them all on the world. We had to delete a bunch after my first photo-taking rampage anyway so that we’d have enough space on the SD card to actually take pictures for the next 3 weeks of our trip. […]
Archive for August, 2006
I’m off to Italy tomorrow for a few weeks of vacation. Don’t expect any WPF-related posts here while I’m gone, but I expect to post some photos and travel musings when I can.
On a suggestion from the KEXP blog, Kenny and I recently invested in a few sets of DiscSox CD sleeves. He came home from band practice the other night to find me snapping open all of my old jewel cases and transferring the CDs + front and back inserts into sleeves. He joined me and helped […]
One question that has been coming up frequently over the past few days has been how to launch the browser when the user clicks on a hyperlink. The answer is different for the browser and standalone cases:
Browser (XBAP or Loose XAML)
XBAPs and loose XAML support special named targets for Hyperlink; these are the same named targets that are supported by […]
It turns out that Dell’s battery recall is the largest safety recall in the history of consumer electronics. My Dell laptop is one of the models affected, but my battery is not (it was manufactured in Korea, not Japan).
It does get very hot though.
Karen told me about K2 for Wordpress today (if I was one of the cool kids I’m sure I would have known a lot earlier. I only found out about “Snakes on a Plane” about a month ago). I’ve been playing around for a bit, and it’s quite nice.
Right now, it looks a lot like […]
Creating a File Upload Control that Works in the Sandbox
Published August 8th, 2006 in Avalon. 4 CommentsIn HTML, it is easy to add file upload capabilities to your application using the INPUT element with type=”file”:
<input type=”file” />
This renders a text box and a button, and when a user clicks on the button she is confronted with a file open dialog. She selects a file, and the text box gets populated with […]
