Programming Outlook 2007 add-ins with Visual C# 2008 Express

Sample code and procedure for creating a simple “Hello World” Outlook 2007 add-in with the free Visual C# 2008 Express

Google Developer Day

I was at the recent Google Developer Day at Wembley, and got a few ideas when listening to talks regarding development in Google Maps from the past six months:

Â It is now possible to integrate Google Earth as a map type of Google Maps – something they didn’t tell us enough about imho. However, it seems [...]

Languages and Learning the web

Lately, I’ve been thinking about improving my Spanish, so when I stumbled upon the site SpanishSense, which contains lessons with voice dialogs, podcasts and help material I became pretty excited. One thing I really like about the site is how they allow you to embed lessons in your own site, to spread the word and [...]

Computer Vision – The 7 Applications

A while back I wrote about Computer Vision with a short description of what it is and what we can do with it, today I decided to create a list of what we can do with it, either using only Computer Vision techniques or in conjunction with other technologies.

Augmented reality/Virtual Reality: Track a person with [...]

AJAX with script.aculo.us for Wordpress

I’ve been looking at script.aculo.us and prototype for making this site a bit more user friendly, and less static, with some simple effects. Using Wordpress this could mean having to alter in the current theme, which I’m not fond of since I would have to remember altering again in another theme if I decide to [...]

Introduction to Computer Vision

There’s a simple explanation to everything, at least if you don’t care about how sufficient the explanation is. The simple explanation for Computer Vision is that this is the reversed technology for 3D Computer Graphics. The medium explanation makes the simple one look ashamed, while the advanced could be seen as advanced physics warping the [...]

Usability

Having a site everyone can use is obviously something every designer should strive for, but how should we do it, and why are certain methods better than others? As with many other research areas, there are divided opinions also within Usability. Some believe that the Usability rule set could be applied anywhere and goes above [...]

Web 2.0 sites

Since this topic is quite popular at the moment, I had a look at different solutions. For anyone curious to explore more, you can look at sites such as AjaxProjects for a comprehensive list, Digital Trend for the best a year ago (according to them at least) or maybe you should simple start stumbling upon [...]