Archive for September, 2008

I like you

I like you

Originally uploaded by SimonAntony.co.uk

I like you I do, honestly I do, fancy a date?

Scanning Electron Microscope Image

This scanning electron microscope image, The Glass Forest by Mario De Stefano, won first place in photography in the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. It shows a community of tiny diatoms – algae characterised by a peculiar glass-like cell wall.

B&B nationalisation is confirmed

I’m glad my mortgage is not with B&B:

Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) is to be nationalised, the government has confirmed.
Under the arrangement, the government will take control of the bank’s £50bn in mortgages and loans. Shares in the company have been suspended.
B&B’s £20bn savings business and branch network will be bought by rival Abbey, More >

About the name Simon Steed

This is funny as hell, did a search on google for my name and blog and came across a site which promised to tell me all about myself, some of the stuff is pretty cool, things like

Apparently i’m very well envoweled – 40% of the letters are vowels. Of one million More >

Dotnet Charting

I was looking for some suitable dotnet charting components/code and came across the following three articles.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/pseabury/2DCharting11152005052210AM/2DCharting.aspx
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/steve_hall/drawinglinechart02072007053420AM/drawinglinechart.aspx
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/jodonnell/ChartingInGDIplus11192005063716AM/ChartingInGDIplus.aspx
Heres a screenshot of the one i’m using:

Exception Handling the nice way

I’ve knocked up a simple project that demonstrates a few things, namely:

Avoiding file locking issues when writing to a logfile using recursion
Dealing with Unhandled Exceptions globally
Writing this data to a local log file

The source code is below, feel free to download and use as you wish. If you make any improvements, please let me know. More >

Erect

Erect
Originally uploaded by SimonAntony.co.uk
I love the serenity of this, it’s so obscure this tower sat in the middle of nowhere – in fact when the tide comes in, it laps at the edge of the green grass, even more surreal

What type of drinker are you?

Apparently the british government have determined that there are nine types of drinker – excerpt from the BBC website:
Drinkers fall into ‘nine groups’
The government believes it has identified nine types of heavy drinker as it launches a new alcohol campaign.
Department of Health research with focus groups found heavy drinkers often fell into one of a More >

Get your local machine/computer name in c#

Four ways to get your local network/machine name:
string name = Environment.MachineName;
string name = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();
string name = System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName;
string name = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(“COMPUTERNAME”);

Need a volume or slider control in your application? Check out the Advanced TrackBar

I needed a slider control to use as fader sliders in an audio application I was writing using the ASIO libraries to control a MAYA44 USB audio device. Came across this one immediately and got right into using it, I really like it and it has a nice Mac look and feel about it too.
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