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A pixel format in dotImage is a description of the depth, color space and layout of the memory used to represent a pixel. Mathematically, there are an infinite number of possible pixel formats as color space is as much a space as Cartesian space. ...
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“ We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil ” – Don Knuth If you are doing image processing, you are firmly in that remaining 3%. I had some code that I had factored into...
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Tons this week. Vladimir Matveev’s is my favorite new F# blogger with very well written data structure posts, Ashley Feniello continues his fantastic FScheme series, and Jomo Fisher posts some great Freebase and DGML examples. That’s just...
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(Remember that commercial ? It always makes me laugh. It’s related. I promise.) Lately I’ve been having some computer drama. When I say “drama” I mean “expenses,” and when I say “expenses” I mean $1,400 poorer. You know what a new computer means—the transfer...
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When I was in college, I had a class in machine architecture/assembly language. At the time that I took it, I knew 6502 already and had published two video games for the Apple II written entirely in assembly. I love the drunken power of having...
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We have a customer who expressed some concern over how our resample command works (and how many similar commands work, in general). He pointed us to an article here which describes the problem. The short of it is that the energy in a pixel...
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I recently put out the call that we’d be ordering new business cards, and that interested people should forward me their preferred name/email/title. Here are some of the specific title requests received: THE MAN Sales God The Sellinator The Dude Steve...
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Between Atalasoft, Professional F# 2.0 and the MVP Summit I’ve been completely swamped and ended up with quite a backlog of posts. Between the Brian-Chris F# Code Battle, Luca’s LChart, Ashley’s continuing FScheme series and Matthew’s MongoDB stuff...
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I took a three day hiatus from developing DotImage 9.0 to work on an experiment: how would a 100% managed PNG decoder perform, compared to libpng? Using only C#, I knocked together a very basic chunk of code that has a very strong .NET feel/smell to it...
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Page 1, paragraph 3, sentence 1 of Seth Godin’s Tribes reads “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.” I could not get this out of my head Saturday. I play ice hockey, and at 3:10 PM this...
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It’s been a while since I posted anything campers. I actually only have five suggestions… 1. Be unprofessional. We have had voicemails that made us cringe (like the customer who flushed the toilet – we don’t think he realized he had dialed...
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The more I use F# the more I want to write my every day production C# code in a functional way. To this end, I’ve written a few higher order extension methods as the need arose. I wanted to take a moment and share them with you. I think...
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Saw this great description of Datamatrix encoding via Trivium . Very good your us visual thinkers. And if you need it, Atalasoft has tools for both reading and writing Datamatrix 2D barcodes (and other barcodes as well). Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
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Back again with another F# community roundup. There’s been a ton of great content this week, almost too much. To try to combat this I’ve attempted to sort posts roughly in terms of how interesting I found them. All were worth the...
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I learned something today about the humble slash character: /. First, let me say that to me, / is always pronounced ‘slash’. This is due to my first encountering of this character as a path separator in UNIX when I worked at Bell Labs. ...
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Many apologies if I missed your post. Having skipped last week due to some uncontrollable circumstances left me with quite a large number to sort through. My personal favorite this week is Ashley Feniello’s series. SICP eat your heart...
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One common task in working with images is, given a file or a set of files, read in each page, perform some operation on it and write it as a page in a target file. This is tricky to do out of the box in dotImage in that a lot of the onus of memory management...
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On Wednesday, I’ll be leading a session at The Architect Factory event in Cambridge, MA. My topic is Persuading Product/Project Managers and is in the Architecture Leadership track. I’ll be covering: What is a Product Manager? How Product Managers think...
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On Stack Overflow , a user asked how to create vignettes in .NET. I wrote up this answer , which explains the math and the general approach. To give you an idea of what this looks like, here is the output of an application which applies the vignette...
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Back again this week with a fresh batch of F# Posts, Videos and Events. I’ve been enjoying Matthew Podwysocki’s “Much Ado About Monads” series quite a lot. They are well worth checking out for beginner and advanced alike. Events If...
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Windows IT Pro published a checklist for SharePoint Document Management . It covers some of the things you need to think about in addition to just adopting SharePoint (storage, interoperability, backup, security, etc) Those things are important, but instead...
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It’s 2010, the year of F#, and the quantity of posts in this last week reflects it. Not to pick favorites but the work Tomas Petricek has been doing with Accelerator is amazing, be sure to check it out. Also, I’d like to thank everyone who supported...
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(Alternate Title: An Obvious Lesson in Customer Service.) We use W.B. Mason for our office supply company. My predecessor used them here and there, and I started using them more regularly when price shopping at B.J.’s and CostCo became a pain. They matched...
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Many years ago, I had the pleasure of working at Murray Hill Bell Labs. My job, of all things, was making violins, but that’s a story for another time. My office was in section D of the 5th floor of building 2, which was also where the UNIX...
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Last year, around this time, I did a 2008 retrospective with one blog post from each of the blogs hosted by Atalasoft. Here is my 2009 version. Atalasoft Office Blog This year, Christina (our Vizit Marketing Manager among other things) started an office...
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