Creating Cascading Menu Items in Windows Explorer 7, 8, 8.1 & 10

How to integrate a command-line application into the right-click menu in Windows Explorer.

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• 3 May 2014

Failure resiliency and retry delay planning

When dealing with networked or external data sources I've learned the hard way that all code should be designed as to expect failures. It is significantly cheaper and easier to bake a graceful handling of errors this from the start rather than attempt to do it later on. A common first step in combating failures and providing resiliency is to have your logic retry an operation in case of a failure.

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• 20 February 2014

Simple k-means algorithm in C#

Example of how to implement a simple K-Means algorithm in C#

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• 11 August 2013

Base64 encoding image files using Python

In an earlier entry I mentioned that I was building a little app to display a bunch of static information. Sometimes I find it immensely useful to embed all resources into a single data-file. Not only does it make handling the data simpler but also retrieving it over the internet.

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• 13 May 2013

Calculating File Change List using SHA256

Realised today that I needed a good way to create a change list document for a small app that I am writing. The app has a few hundred screens, each of which is supported by a single data document that contains the information that the screen is showing.

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• 11 May 2013

Failover resiliency is indeed important

Providing resiliency for backend failures by having more than one datasource available.

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• 8 May 2013

Layouts in Android not switching correctly between portrait and landscape

After having followed all the examples on the Android developer site to the letter about supplying multiple layouts for different screen sizes and orientation I was still having issues with them on extra large screens (10" tablets).

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• 20 April 2013

Fast Flicking Between Images on Android

So I wanted to be able to have a simple control that supported swapping between a list of images as the user swiped/flicked their finger across the image.

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• 20 April 2013