When I first created this site, I used it both as a test bed for technologies as I played with them and as a repository for others to use for my presentations and other insights. Over the years people have been free to grab these samples, but haven’t had good ways of giving back to help improve the samples. In the mean time, there have been quite a number of technology changes. While I may have been late to the party on some, there’s only so many things one can focus on. One of the advances we’
For several years, I’ve been demonstrating using Reactive Extensions to handle taking user input and providing real time translations into multiple languages. This code sample has been so popular that even Soma posted an example using the Bing translator in his introducing Rx post. In most cases, they only issue a single request or issue multiple individual requests for multiple languages. To add a bit of fun to my demo, I decided to spice it up a bit and turn the list of destination languages i
It seems that every customer I talk with these days are chasing the elusive write once run anywhere. Typically, the best answer is to go with HTML5/JavaScript because it is the most ubiquitous option across devices. One recent customer that I was working with has a fleet of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices with native applications that they are looking to upgrade to a more modern hardware device. Unfortunately, the browser on the Windows Mobile 6.5 devices do not support HTML5, or the necessary app pa
