DotNetNuke - A Free and Open Source Framework!!!

At last, a reason for me to run a Microsoft server for web applications. I might start on this very soon!

Fun with Attribute Based Programming – Extending Enumerations

Amazing article on using attributes in C#. Attributes can simplify some parts of generic programming tasks such as expanding enumerations like in the article above. The code for the article can be found here.

State-Driven Game Agent Design

A very good article on state machines, the code is in C++ but you can find a similar version for C# at Codecube.net.

Video Lectures From World's Leading And Prominent Scientists.

This link is a nice find so far, I have not watched any of the videos because I have been really busy.

Haha, They put a warning on the back of pirating the product....

Its too funny, the movie studios really need to watch there networks and products.. There never going to be able to secure there products anymore.... They just do not understand technology.

This is a insane story.

Insane Story of a man who cut his own penis off!!!! What a nut.

Anti-Patterns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern
One of my favorite ones is "Smoke and mirrors: Demonstrating how unimplemented functions will appear"

CoilOsapien Killer!

The killer robot of choice by 9 out of 10 Americans. I got to get my self one of these bad boys to build a self defence system in my house.

Using LINQ to solve puzzles

The Puzzle

Here's a puzzle similar to the one in the puzzle hunt. The diagram below is a bunch of weights (A-M) hanging from a system of bars. Each weight has an integer value between 1 and 13, and the goal is to figure out what each weight must be for the the diagram below to balance correctly as shown:

                          |
                        |
            +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
            |                    |
            |                    |
         +--+--+--+--+--+        |
         |     L        M        |
         |                       |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+     +--+--+--+--+--+
H              |  I     |  J        K  |
               |        |              |
      +--+--+--+--+--+  |     +--+--+--+--+--+
      E              F  |     G              |
                        |                    |
            +--+--+--+--+--+  +--+--+--+--+--+--+

            A              B  C                 D

The rules for this kind of puzzle are: (1) The weights on either side of a given pivot point must be equal, when weighted by the distance from the pivot, and (2) a bar hanging beneath another contributes it's total weight as through it were a single weight. For instance, the bar on the bottom right must have 5*C=D, and the one above it must have 3*G=2*(C+D).

I think there approach is way too brute force, this it seems like a little set theory mixed in with some linear algebra and recursive decent would be able to solve this problem. More on it later, if I come up with my own solution.

Thread with a buch of carpc software.

A fun sunday installing a pc in my car... Forget the cell phone drivers next are the pc drivers!!!

WPF Demo by Laurent Bugnion

The basic concepts you need to start working with wpf. Embed media into your button!!!!

Something to read on NTFS when I get a chance.

3D Book Reading with WPF/E

Get-WmiObject for finding products installed.

Quick snipit:

PS> Get-WmiObject -class "Win32_Product" -namespace "root\cimv2" -computername THECOMPUTER -filter "Name='Some Silly Product'"

PocketPC 2003 is so kind to me.

What kind of error messages are these? Do I want to loose my data because my data is corrupted? My bluetooth licence has expired? What else my phone is ready to explode or be tossed out of my car window on the highway!!!

Sierpinski Carpet using the DrawingVisual wpf type.

Simple example of how to use DrawingVisual in WPF to create a Sierpinski Carpet.

Sierpinski Triangle in C# with a WPF Polygon.

Simple wpf app to create a small Sierpinski Triangle... This is just a base of something I would like to create, so this is a start of using the Sierpinski Triangle. Algorithm came from the wikipedia implementation in java.

Consumer's application in WPF

Advanced Unit Testing, Part I - Overview

A very nice long artical on unit testing... I'm still very impressed by the Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# as a reference...

Music From Egypt

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Vista and Speech Recognition

When I get Vista installed and have some extra time, I would like to create an application that can recognize what news sites I would want to read and open them in IE or firefox. This doesnt seem to hard just takes a little time.

Old Art.

I found some old photography art I did of my ex-girlfriend from years ago. I wounder what she's up too now. I put this girl through hell, my life was a little crazy at that time.

ipsuid gets a blog!

I have been trying to get ipsuid to blog, and here it is. His hardware knowledge is amazing and he's always got a project brewing or working. It's also funny since I give him stuff I dont use any more and he turns it into something. One example was a monitor I had, I think he powers a lazor with it or something.

Found a great Mizrahim radio station.

And to add Amichai has a few of the better radio stations!

It has been late nights.

Work has been keeping me up late, or I just like working at odd hours. Desk at 3 a.m.

Microsoft does not even know its own file extensions

The .ps1 is what people have been using for monard aka PowerShell aka who knows what other names. But I found it funny that microsofts website does not redirect you to the main site for PowerShell.

They also dont under stand msh

My New Office Is in My Room

Some Fun Math and Puzzle Sites

http://qbyte.org/
http://qbyte.org/puzzles/
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/

Funny ways to fail an exam

This one is my favorite

Lost Art Work

This is an oil painting of a street that I have stuck in my head. I have no idea where this street is since its an image from when I was a kid, one of those images that you never forget but also never know where they come from. This painting I and showed a dear friend of mine who loved it. So I just gave them the painting and I know they enjoy it.

Fun Math Facts.

I have to say my fav fact is the multiplication by 11.
Let b1, b2, .... , bn be the digits of a number, then

b1*11 = b_1b_1
b1b2*11=b1(b1+b2)b2
b1b2b3*11=b1(b1+b2)(b2+b3)b3
[...]
b1b2...bn*11=b1(b2+b3)....(bn-1 + bn)bn

This "fun fact" could be proved by induction.

Fun way to learn WPF

Still have not read it yet, but I hope by tonight I do.

Tab Catalog

I must say I really like this extension but its way to slow when I have many tabs open.

Googlism

While looking for scripts colorize python code into html I stumbled to googlism! You cant find xsignal on it just yet. But give it time. I also found the script I was looking for http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52298/index_txt

Vector Fun

Here is a simple program to help you find the magnitude, dot product, 
cross product of 2 vectors of size 3, and the projection vectors of each.
This is nothing ground breaking, but it shows you how fast you can code
something like this up in python with out much work. Some sample output:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Enter in vector x: (separated by spaces)
Enter in vector y: (separated by spaces)

--------------------------------------------
ERROR: vectors entered are not the same size
--------------------------------------------


Vectors entered:
x = < 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 >
y = < -1 , 1 , -1 >

Magnitude of x is sqrt(4)=2.0
Magnitude of y is sqrt(3)=1.73205080757

Enter another pair of vectors [y/n]?
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Enter in vector x: (separated by spaces)
Enter in vector y: (separated by spaces)

Vectors entered:
x = < 3 , 2 , 1 >
y = < -1 , -2 , 4 >

Magnitude of x is sqrt(14)=3.74165738677
Magnitude of y is sqrt(21)=4.58257569496

Dot product of x and y is -3

The angle between x and y (in degrees) is: 1.74666507689

The cross product of x and y:
x cross y = < 10 , -13 , -4 >

The projection of y onto x:
proj_x(y) = < -9/14 , -3/7 , -3/14 >

The projection of x onto y:
proj_y(x) = < 1/7 , 2/7 , -4/7 >

Enter another pair of vectors [y/n]?
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Enter in vector x: (separated by spaces)
Enter in vector y: (separated by spaces)

Vectors entered:
x = < 0 , 1 >
y = < -1 , 0 >

Magnitude of x is sqrt(1)=1.0
Magnitude of y is sqrt(1)=1.0

Dot product of x and y is 0

The angle between x and y (in degrees) is: 1.57079632679

The projection of y onto x:
proj_x(y) = < 0 , 0 >

The projection of x onto y:
proj_y(x) = < 0 , 0 >

Enter another pair of vectors [y/n]?
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Enter in vector x: (separated by spaces)
Enter in vector y: (separated by spaces)

--------------------------------------------
ERROR: vectors entered are not the same size
--------------------------------------------


Vectors entered:
x = < 1 , 1 , 1 >
y = < -1 , 1 >

Magnitude of x is sqrt(3)=1.73205080757
Magnitude of y is sqrt(2)=1.41421356237

Enter another pair of vectors [y/n]?
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Enter in vector x: (separated by spaces)
Enter in vector y: (separated by spaces)

Vectors entered:
x = < 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 >
y = < -1 , 1 , -1 , 1 , -1 >

Magnitude of x is sqrt(5)=2.2360679775
Magnitude of y is sqrt(5)=2.2360679775

Dot product of x and y is -1

The angle between x and y (in degrees) is: 1.77215424759

The projection of y onto x:
proj_x(y) = < -1/5 , -1/5 , -1/5 , -1/5 , -1/5 >

The projection of x onto y:
proj_y(x) = < 1/5 , -1/5 , 1/5 , -1/5 , 1/5 >

Enter another pair of vectors [y/n]?
You did not enter a y/n so we exit anyways.

MetaMath

Something about proof building is very intresting.
Infinite Primes Theorm

TorusKnots

In[49]:=

Out[50]=

---

HaKotel HaMa'aravi

Chaos: Fractal Basin Boundaries

Chaos always makes nice background images for your desktop systems. This is my current image:

Basin boundaries arise in dissipative dynamical systems when two, or more, attractors are present. In such situations each attractor has a basin of initial conditions which lead asymptotically to that attractor. The basin boundaries are the sets which separate different basins. It is very common for basin boundaries to contain unstable chaotic sets. In such cases the basin boundaries can have very complicated fractal structure. Because of this complicated very fine-scaled structure, fractal basin boundaries can pose an impediment to predicting long-term behavior. In particular, if an initial condition is specified with only finite precision, it may be very difficult a priori to determine in which basin it lies if the boundaries are fractal.

Google Code Searching For Coding Bugs.

This is just one simple search for common terms that might be linked to secuirty flaws.

Matrix Fun

A simple program written in python that does matrix addition, 
multiplication, scalar multiplication,
transpose and put the matrix into reduced echelon form. 
The main driver program is matrix_fun.py
which does the matrix operations. The run_gen.sh is a 
bash script that runs the program gen_random_test_file.py. 
gen_random_test_file.py generates a flat text file based on the command line parameters given to it.  

python gen_random_test_file.py - h
USAGE : gen_random_test_file.py[options]
Simple program to generate a test file with
random variables for size, min, max and scalar

options : -sm M, --sizemin = M Rows of matrix (random selection of 1 <>-sM N, --sizemax = N Cols of matrix (random selection of 1 <>-m X, --min = N Minimum value of a random element in the matcies
-M Y, --max = Y Maximum value of a random element in the matcies
-cm C, --scalarmin = C Minimum value for a scalar
-cM B, --scalarmax Maximum value for a scalar
-l L, --length = L Length of the list to generate
-f FILENAME, --filename = FILENAME Filename to write list too.

Then the script runs the matrix_fun.py program against it and outputs the results to a text file. Just check the code out its very simple to follow with no real thought about who the user is. Here is an example of just running matrix_fun.py by its self:

what are the dimensions of matrix A [mxn]:
3x3

Please enter in matrix A one row at a time separated by spaces.
1 2 3
5 6 7
4 5 6

What is the dimensions of your matrix B [mxn]:
3x3

Please enter in matrix B one row at a time separated by spaces.
5 6 3
7 5 2
7 9 2

MATRIX A:
| 1 2 3 |
| 5 6 7 |
| 4 5 6 |

MATRIX B:
| 5 6 3 |
| 7 5 2 |
| 7 9 2 |


If Matrix A and B are both mxn we can add them.

We can add Matrix A and B
A + B =
| 6 8 6 |
| 12 11 9 |
| 11 14 8 |

Please enter a scalar value to multiply matrix A by, (cA)
5
| 5 10 15 |
| 25 30 35 |
| 20 25 30 |

Finding the transpose of A:
| 1 5 4 |
| 2 6 5 |
| 3 7 6 |

Matrix Multiplication (AB)
| 40 43 13 |
| 116 123 41 |
| 97 103 34 |

Putting Matrix A into Reduced echelon form.
Before rref:
| 1 2 3 |
| 5 6 7 |
| 4 5 6 |
Row 0 times -5 added to row 1
| 1 2 3 |
| 0 -4 -8 |
| 4 5 6 |
Row 0 times -4 added to row 2
| 1 2 3 |
| 0 -4 -8 |
| 0 -3 -6 |
Row 1 divided by -4
| 1 2 3 |
| 0 1 2 |
| 0 -3 -6 |
Row 1 times -2 added to row 0
| 1 0 -1 |
| 0 1 2 |
| 0 -3 -6 |
Row 1 times 3 added to row 2
| 1 0 -1 |
| 0 1 2 |
| 0 0 0 |

Would you like to enter another matrix [y/n]

Nice Electronic Dictionary

This embedded electronic dictionary can do and say anything. The most impressive support to me is the English to Arabic and Arabic to English support. The only problem I would have with this device is I would open it up before I would even use it! I would also like to know what TTS software if any, that they use for there device.

Artistic side of me hitting again!

Nice eval board but is it really cheap?

For 850$ you can run linux on a ARM920T without ripping your hair out trying to get it to work. This eval comes with everything you need including design documents, it could be a good investment for embedded linux newbies. The best part is the touch panel. Currently I am looking for a simple development platform for a simple game that I am developing on the side. No details on the game just yet since school and work are taking up way to much time!

IGoogle Sidebar

And again we see google become more integrated into our lives.

Ahmadinejad and the Holocaust

What the Holocaust demonstrates is the danger of a one-party state. It shows what can happen when a group of true believers, convinced of the superiority of their own ideas, have unchecked power. They are then free to rewrite history to suit their political ends, and crush those who disagree or protest . . . or who worship God in a different way.

Like, say, the mullahs in Iran.

Great python statistics info site.

There was some graphing module I used once for work, but I dont remember the name of it. When I go back to work I will find out.

Ahoy, mateys ! Thar be Jewish pirates!

One such pirate was Moses Cohen Henriques, who helped plan one of history's largest heists against Spain. In 1628, Henriques set sail with Dutch West India Co. Admiral Piet Hein, whose own hatred of Spain was fueled by four years spent as a galley slave aboard a Spanish ship. Henriques and Hein boarded Spanish ships off Cuba and seized shipments of New World gold and silver worth in today's dollars about the same as Disney's total box office for "Dead Man's Chest."

israeli and jewish music feed for your podcasts collection.

The only problem is the mp3 files are a little large, but hey its worth the space.

"Usually, trust values that a kernel-mode component gives you."

You have to love that qoute from that book. TRUST THE WINDOWS KERNEL!@#!@#