I attended the 2015 WWDC and made these notes afterwards. Aside from the specifics re. the Apple Watch and AppleTV, they may be of value to those who are considering streaming sessions next week:
From an editorial perspective, one thing that is …
more ...From an editorial perspective, one thing that is clear about WWDC is that the main audience for the sessions is not the developers in attendance, but the much more diverse, more diffuse, and more transient on-line audience that will view the videos over the next months and even years.
Due to popular demand...
Here is source code for a preliminary Xamarin.iOS binding for Google's ChromeCast
and
Here is C# source code for a simple iOS app that casts a video URL
In order for this to work, you'll need:
This …
more ...::: {style="font-size: 10pt;"} Faithful readers know that I'm learning Scala, somewhat reluctantly. A few weeks ago, I was reading New Scientist magazine and saw this writeup of Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, which mentioned that he was on the review board that studied the crash of the Mars …
more ...I haven't used this, but I talked briefly with the Code Bubbles developers about 18 months ago and thought that debugging would be the perfect fit. Seems like someone at MSR agreed:
Debugger Canvas - Microsoft Research.
more ...Taking my own 15 Exercises to Know A Programming Language as a starting point for my exploration of Scala...
The first set of exercises are right up the alley of a language with pattern-matching and list-processing:
more ...Write a program that takes as its first argument one of the words ‘sum …
Saikuro : A Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer.
Function complexity does not seem to be a great problem in the Ruby world, but tracking cyclomatic complexity is one of those things that can help pinpoint troubled modules.
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more ... import sys import clr sys.path.append("c:\\program files\\Microsoft Research\\Infer.NET 2.2\\bin\\debug") clr.AddReferenceToFile("Infer.Compiler.dll") clr.AddReferenceToFile("Infer.Runtime.dll") from MicrosoftResearch.Infer import * from MicrosoftResearch.Infer.Models import * from MicrosoftResearch.Infer.Distributions import * firstCoin = Variable[bool].Bernoulli(0.5) secondCoin = Variable …From SapphireSteel, the makers of IronRuby, comes the first peek at an IronRuby visual design surface.
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