The Riveter March 15, 1940 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 Donald answers a wanted ad for a riveter and is thrust into the job on the top floor of a sky scraper. This short is the spiritual successor of Building a Building, in which Pete yells at Mickey for many of the…
Donald’s Lucky Day January 13, 1939 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 We open in a shadowy room as two criminals devised to send a bomb to a competing criminal, set to go off at midnight. And, to deliver this instrument of death on Friday the 13th, the unluckiest of all days, they’ve…
Building HoloLens apps is more fun when you have models. I mean… spheres and cubes have their place, but it’s decidedly more fun to be able see models that look like real things in your HoloLens app. And for that you’ll probably need some modeling software. If you’re just getting started, SketchUp is a great…
Whenever you start a HoloLens project from scratch in Unity, you’ll need to do a couple things to get everything in place to deploy to a HoloLens device. The items required fall into the categories of camera, player, build, and Visual Studio deployment. Camera Select the Main Camera object in the Hierarchy In the Inspector,…
If you’ve wandered through the design world for any length of time, you’ve run into the grid system. It’s a system of design layout in which things are aligned on a grid to give even spacing and an sense of structure to the layout. I like the grid system and use it with some frequency…
Every application needs to save information, usually in the form of objects or lists of objects. To ease Windows (Phone) app development, I have my data saving process templated in a Visual Studio snippet. It’s an incredibly useful way for me to build out the basics quickly, especially for prototyping. Download Snippet First, we need…
I’m working on a project where users are going to load a PDF, but will be returning to the same PDF again and again. I was having some problems with Microsoft’s normally amazing PDF showcase application on lower end devices (my app needs to run well on an original Surface), so I tested this solution out. So far it’s…
For those of us who love to play with data and aspire to donning the hat of the data scientist, one of the most interesting developments in the Microsoft world over the last year has been the addition of the Machine Learning studio to the long list of services that Microsoft offers through Azure. The…
I’ve started writing more and more about science and technology over at the Paradox Project. I thought it would be fun to link to some of that here. What 23andMe Will Tell You About Your DNA – Personal health reports are back and this time with FDA approval! I look through the new health reports…
github source for this project Note: This starts from scratch and integrates with the Sunlight Foundation Congress API in a few short minutes. It is not designed to model good architecture or best practices. So you’ve got an API that delivers a JSON object or array & you want to access this in C# and you want…