The Coding Humanist

Yesterday I decided to try my hand on moving the Deadpool drawing from the realm of the physical to the digital. At first I tried with Photoshop but the process of removing all of the non-inked spaces (both on the inside and the outside of the drawing) left me with the shadows of grays around the black edges. That didn't really work for me. Of course I'm probably not using it right.

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Was drawing with the kids last night. This time I drew from the same comic as the last drawing. That was from the cover, this one is from the final page.

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One of my recent purchases is Ultimate Spider-Man #91. During the time of this comic Peter is dating Kitty Pride. So she can go out with him and do the whole super-hero thing without people realizing she is one of the X-Men, she dons a new costume. The following pic is from the cover:

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So I'm working on a new project and I decided to use StructureMap (version 2.5.3) as an IoC container for the application. So I hooked it up for some code, ran my unit tests and all was peachy. Then I tried to run the app on IIS (Win7 RC) and I got a code access security exception.

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Awww yeah...this new button in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is the bomb. It's going to save me lots of time. If you are a test driven development guy too you need to know about it. It is the "Toggle between suggestion and standard completion mode" button. Wow, how boring. It is, unless you're a TDD guy.

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What did I do Friday night? I drew with the kids. This was mine and is the Beetle from the cover of "The Ultimate Spiderman" #124. Other than the difference in perspective, for the most part it looks like the original.

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I like my iPod but I'm not a huge fan of iTunes. When I heard about the Zune HD I figured it was time to try it. I want something better, something that doesn't lock up for 20 seconds every time I download a podcast. So with the hope of finding more usability I trotted down to Best Buy on release day (Sept 15th) and bought me the large size Zune HD. Yay! A newer, better, player! The software was very different but eventually I got used to it and could navigate it fairly well. Yay, all is happy with the world.

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The slides for my presentation at the North Dallas .NET User Group (and for the Houston Tech Fest meeting...though they have changed slightly) are now posted and you can find them here.

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I just posted information on my talk titled "UI Extensibility Techniques with ASP.NET MVC Ajax and jQuery" here. For those of you following me since Houston Tech Fest, you'll find your link to the source code there. For those going to the NDDNUG talk on Wednesday...you'll also find the source code there :)

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This weekend I installed Win 7 on the home computer. I don't use it much these days but it is the normal computer for the wife and kids. It has been running XP for years. Time for the upgrade, I think.

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