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Tablet PC input: recognizing gestures and creating strokes from code

In my previous post on Tablet PC pen input I explored handwriting recognition. I explored how the language specific recognizers of the tablet API translated your scribbling into text, listed the possible alternatives and the confidence it had in the results. The Tablet API has another recognizer built...

Published Tue, Jun 28 2005 3:34 PM by pvanooijen

Filed under: Tablet+PC
Windows XP (europea) N edition

The European Microsoft anti-trust case stirred quite a pen back in march 2004. The case had two parts. One of them was that Microsoft should split Media Player from Windows. My rant on the subject was a little oil canister (a honey pot attracts hackers, an oil canister attracts flames). As a result of...

Published Sun, Jun 26 2005 3:19 PM by pvanooijen

Filed under: Chatter
Why go to a conference (the PDC in particular) and blog about it

It’s conference and meeting season. Teched US is just behind, next week is TechEd Europe and as a side show Dutch usergroup dotned meets the 4th of july for a presentation by Juval Löwy . In september the summit will be the PDC . Why should you go to conferences and meetings ? There are lots and lots...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2005 5:10 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: User groups and meetings
Stop the trackback myth

The heading of a blog home page usually contains some statistics like the number of posts in the blog and the number of comments. Almost always it will mention the number of trackbacks. The codebetter blog homepage has a list of bloggers (reverse) ordered by number of posts, with our trackbacks. The...

Published Fri, Jun 17 2005 7:03 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: Chatter
Recognizing handwriting on a Tablet PC: beyond Strokes.ToString()

Having spent 3 solid days on doing a crash-course VS 2005 training it's time for a little diversion. Finally I made the time for another post on programming the Tablet PC. The tablet PC is very good in recognizing handwriting, it will even make sense out of the worst scribblings you can imagine, for...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2005 4:43 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: Coding, Tablet+PC
Blog'n my way to the PDC

Channel9 has started a contest where you can win a ticket to the PDC , including an airline ticket and hotel. You take part by blogging. Including a post why you should win the prize. Do take part ! And here's my contribution : Why do I want to go to the PDC ? Because I was there last time and blogged...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2005 7:39 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: User groups and meetings
Idispose the Finalizer

This posts is not about managing .net objects ! Darrell and John spread the word on the Finalizer, a robot running on .NET. It's a battlebot backup up by its own website . Great. But it is by long not something new. Over here in (er gaat niets boven) Groningen we have the RoboChallenge where robots compete...

Published Wed, Jun 8 2005 1:42 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: User groups and meetings
Turn a .NET winforms application into a (COM) automation server

As a start to the next 2 years of blogging I want to look back on an "ancient" technology : COM, which is still the glue between software parts created with a great diversity of tools. COM brought me to .NET, exploring the world of COM in Delphi I discovered the .NET 1.0 betas. Never to leave again....

Published Fri, Jun 3 2005 2:18 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: Coding
Grown up in public: 2 years of blogging

Today is a celebration. Exactly two years ago my first blog-post showed up on the dotnetjunkies . At the time blogging was quite new to me, being an author for the junkies I was invited to start a blog. And the remainder is history, blogging has taken the place of writing articles. To some it even replaces...

Published Fri, Jun 3 2005 12:19 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: Chatter

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Tablet PC input: recognizing gestures and creating strokes from code

Windows XP (europea) N edition

Why go to a conference (the PDC in particular) and blog about it

Stop the trackback myth

Recognizing handwriting on a Tablet PC: beyond Strokes.ToString()

Blog'n my way to the PDC

Idispose the Finalizer

Turn a .NET winforms application into a (COM) automation server

Grown up in public: 2 years of blogging