I recently had a project where I needed a camera from a specific panel (the front-facing camera) in my Windows / Windows Phone app. It took me a little bit… Read More »Selecting The Front Or Back Camera in Windows / Phone
This is based on this Processing sketch on circle packing, but since I had to update it to get it to work, I figured I’d just post my alterations on… Read More »Circle Packing Algorithm in Processing
About 3 months ago, I got a 23AndMe kit, spit into a tube and sent my biosample to the 23AndMe lab to have my genome sequenced. I’m obsessed with creating infographics… Read More »The Beginner’s Guide to Genetics Hacking
If you want to get started with Windows Phone 8.1, there are 2 big options: “I’m completely new to Windows Phone development.” You need the Absolute Beginner Series for Windows Phone… Read More »Getting Started With Windows Phone 8.1
As of July, 2104, this works for Windows 8 (and greater) and Windows Phone 8 (and greater). All the icons are listed below in images grabbed from Jonathan Antoine’s WinJS… Read More »How to use Windows 8 font icons in XAML
I’m going to do this backwards. I’ll start assuming you already have your vector icon in XAML. Then, how to import your vector icon from Illustrator to XAML. The basics:… Read More »Using Vectors in an App Bar (Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8.1)
This is for getting a GridView to use the same drag-down = select, tap = action interaction model that we see on the Windows 8 start screen. In your GridView, create… Read More »Windows 8 GridView Cross-Swipe and Tap (multi-selection + single selection)
Of all the silly tricks I know, none is more engaging than solving a Rubik’s. The reason for this is because the Rubik’s cube is something that everyone has played… Read More »Solving a Rubik’s Cube
Some time ago I wrote an overview of data visualization styles along with a visualization tutorial for the book “Beautiful Visualization“. For the tutorial, I chose a set of data… Read More »Beautiful Visualizations Data from Cars.Gov
(There are spoilers to pretty much the entire run of Dexter here.) I am a huge Dexter fan and I was pretty upset about the end of Dexter this past… Read More »Why The Ending To Dexter Was Awful