Comments for Elias Puurunen, @agFinn http://puurunen.ca/blog My thoughts on coding, life, and everything else. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on Getting Started with Apache Pivot 2.0! by Elias http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=192#comment-350 Elias Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:12:12 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=192#comment-350 When I saw that a developer could declare Pivot user interfaces in XML, my mindset immediately shifted into Windows Presentation Foundation/Silverlight mode. My initial reaction to Pivot I think wasn't fair, in that I was just relearning Java that day, plus learning a new UI toolkit. As such, my mind was in the first phase of learning a language, the "I-hate-everything-about-this-language" one. My biggest gripe with Pivot was the lack of documentation. Figuring out how to deserialize a layout from XML took a lot of time (probably an hour or two). I really wanted something akin to best practices for that. I was somewhat disappointed that one has to create new Views in order to re-style controls, whereas in Silverlight/WPF that's trivial to do in XML. Just my two cents. When I saw that a developer could declare Pivot user interfaces in XML, my mindset immediately shifted into Windows Presentation Foundation/Silverlight mode. My initial reaction to Pivot I think wasn’t fair, in that I was just relearning Java that day, plus learning a new UI toolkit. As such, my mind was in the first phase of learning a language, the “I-hate-everything-about-this-language” one.

My biggest gripe with Pivot was the lack of documentation. Figuring out how to deserialize a layout from XML took a lot of time (probably an hour or two). I really wanted something akin to best practices for that. I was somewhat disappointed that one has to create new Views in order to re-style controls, whereas in Silverlight/WPF that’s trivial to do in XML.

Just my two cents.

]]> Comment on Getting Started with Apache Pivot 2.0! by Greg Brown http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=192#comment-286 Greg Brown Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:30:16 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=192#comment-286 BTW, a simpler way to implement your Quit button handler would be to simply call DesktopApplicationContext.exit(). That way you don't need to deal with wiring up a state listener for your window. If you prefer the state listener approach, I'd suggest extending WindowStateListener.Adapter rather than implementing WindowStateListener directly. Finally, in main() you should just be able to call DesktopApplicationContext.main(App.class). BTW, a simpler way to implement your Quit button handler would be to simply call DesktopApplicationContext.exit(). That way you don’t need to deal with wiring up a state listener for your window.

If you prefer the state listener approach, I’d suggest extending WindowStateListener.Adapter rather than implementing WindowStateListener directly.

Finally, in main() you should just be able to call DesktopApplicationContext.main(App.class).

]]> Comment on Getting Started with Apache Pivot 2.0! by Greg Brown http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=192#comment-285 Greg Brown Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:05:55 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=192#comment-285 "it has the beginnings of an awesome UI toolkit, but does feel rough around the edges at certain points" Hi Elias, What specifically seemed "rough around the edges" to you when you tried Pivot? In other words, what do you feel is lacking? Based on your experience with other toolkits, how do you think it might be improved? Greg “it has the beginnings of an awesome UI toolkit, but does feel rough around the edges at certain points”

Hi Elias,
What specifically seemed “rough around the edges” to you when you tried Pivot? In other words, what do you feel is lacking? Based on your experience with other toolkits, how do you think it might be improved?

Greg

]]> Comment on MC3090 – Reading Tags With the RFID Reader by S http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=125#comment-250 S Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:37:34 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=125#comment-250 Hi, This article has been really helpful to me. I have a further question regarding the EMDK library. It seems that this only scans tags once and never again unless you restart your app -- at least that's what's happening when I use the code you've written. Is there a way to implement continuous notifying of tags reads, even duplicate reads? Basically, I want to get every single read (as you know there can be dozens of reads within the span of a second), and do my own filtering. Thanks, S Hi,

This article has been really helpful to me. I have a further question regarding the EMDK library. It seems that this only scans tags once and never again unless you restart your app — at least that’s what’s happening when I use the code you’ve written. Is there a way to implement continuous notifying of tags reads, even duplicate reads?

Basically, I want to get every single read (as you know there can be dozens of reads within the span of a second), and do my own filtering.

Thanks,
S

]]> Comment on .NET Compact Framework – Could not connect to the network Exception with HttpWebResponse by How it Works: Windows Mobile RNDIS http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=75#comment-249 How it Works: Windows Mobile RNDIS Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:31:03 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/?p=75#comment-249 [...] this part has bitten me before – make sure that if you’re wanting to do any sort of HTTP requests over the network, [...] [...] this part has bitten me before – make sure that if you’re wanting to do any sort of HTTP requests over the network, [...]

]]> Comment on Motorola MC3090-Z RFID Reader – Enabling the RFID Radio While Docked by Nathan http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=123#comment-226 Nathan Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:59:58 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=123#comment-226 Elias, I stumbled across your blog while browsing the internet looking for helpful examples of bar code and RFID, data collection applications - specifically C# for the MC3090Z. This blog in regards to enabling LLRP while docked will be a great help when it comes to debugging my RFID application. Also, the pop-up message every time I rebooted the scanner was troublesome for my application which is designed to be a start up program so this registry tweak is really going to help. Thanks for the help! Elias,

I stumbled across your blog while browsing the internet looking for helpful examples of bar code and RFID, data collection applications – specifically C# for the MC3090Z. This blog in regards to enabling LLRP while docked will be a great help when it comes to debugging my RFID application. Also, the pop-up message every time I rebooted the scanner was troublesome for my application which is designed to be a start up program so this registry tweak is really going to help.

Thanks for the help!

]]> Comment on PostSharp – Using Attributed Compact Framework Assemblies with .NET Framework Applications! by Using PostSharp-Attributed Compact Framework Assemblies with .NET Framework PostSharp Attributed Assemblies! http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=147#comment-123 Using PostSharp-Attributed Compact Framework Assemblies with .NET Framework PostSharp Attributed Assemblies! Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:58:29 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=147#comment-123 [...] few days ago, I blogged about the difficulty I was having using a Compact Framework assembly I had attributed with PostSharp aspects alongside a regular [...] [...] few days ago, I blogged about the difficulty I was having using a Compact Framework assembly I had attributed with PostSharp aspects alongside a regular [...]

]]> Comment on PostSharp – Property-Backed Property Aspect by Elias http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=135#comment-105 Elias Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:56:42 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=135#comment-105 Since we're checking to see if the property is null/catching exceptions, the default getter will be called (the one defined in the class). If the named properties are renamed, the strings will need to be updated as well. So there is a certain maintenance cost to this. Since we’re checking to see if the property is null/catching exceptions, the default getter will be called (the one defined in the class).

If the named properties are renamed, the strings will need to be updated as well. So there is a certain maintenance cost to this.

]]> Comment on PostSharp – Property-Backed Property Aspect by mendicant http://puurunen.ca/blog/?p=135#comment-103 mendicant Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:31:41 +0000 http://silverfinn.net/blog/?p=135#comment-103 What happens if someone comes in and renames ResolutionRequired to IsResolutionRequired? Or CurrentCondition to CurrentStatus? Or something along those lines. What happens if someone comes in and renames ResolutionRequired to IsResolutionRequired?

Or CurrentCondition to CurrentStatus?

Or something along those lines.

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