Microsoft Experiments with Photo Viewing, Part 2: Photosynth

Today, Microsoft announced the official release of their Photosynth project, which allows a user to view a collection of images in 3D contextual space. The great thing about this launch is that now, users can create their own “Synths” out of a collection of personal images. This is very exciting, as now I’m sure we’ll [...]

Microsoft Experiments with Photo Viewing, Part 1: Deep Zoom

Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot about a couple relatively new technologies coming out of Microsoft called Deep Zoom and Photosynth. I’m not entirely sure if “technology experiment” is the correct term for these two photo-viewing platforms, but they seem to be more proof-of-concepts than anything especially practical. Regardless, I am extremely interested in both [...]

4 Things That Hold Us Back

“We have met the enemy and he is us” - Walt Kelly
I’m a person with plans. I have lots of ideas. Somehow, these ideas don’t ever get executed on, or they get started and end up partially completed and then discarded - like a rusting muscle car on blocks in someone’s front yard. So what [...]

Boom to Bust: Startups that go Belly Up

I found an interesting article about the internet startups of years gone by. The article itself, 25 Internet Startups that Bombed Miserably was interesting enough - it gives a brief overview of companies such as pets.com, Lycos, and Kiko. What I found even more interesting, however, was a link to a different article in one [...]

WPF Tutorial: Dependency Properties

Hello all, I know I’ve been away for a bit but now I’m back with a sweet coding tutorial. I’ve been doing a lot of WPF lately for my current job at InterKnowlogy, so I decided to write up a quick overview of two new and very important UI features of .NET 3.5 called Dependency [...]

Distributed Observer Pattern

While I was on the train coming home from work an interesting idea hit me while I was trying to solve a very common problem. In general, the problem is that the web sucks. But, I think I found an interesting solution.

No Need For an Architect?

It started with a simple post on the MSDN Forums titled “Call Yourself an Architect?“. The author asked simply:
“…if they say [they are an] architect you expect them to be able to…?”
The answers ended up being pretty surprising to me. Ranging from attempts to answer the questions to new questions of whether or not architects [...]

Welcome to Neude

Welcome to the new neude. For those of you who were with me during the old neude, you may be wondering what has changed. Well, the entire focus is now different. Before I wrote primarily about Neumont University - what was going on, what I liked, what I disliked, etc. I’ve been out of [...]