Einar Høst

A property with a view

av: Einar Høst
I've never been much of an early adopter, so now that Silverlight is dead and cold and has been for a while, it seems appropriate for me to blog about it. More specifically, I'd like to write about the chore that is INotifyPropertyChanged and how ...
01.05.2012

Recursion for kids

av: Einar Høst
Consider the following problem: The field vole can have up to 18 litters (batches of offspring) each year, each litter contains up to 8 children. The newborn voles may have offspring of their own after 25 days. How many field voles can a family gr...
19.01.2012

Pix-It Curling

av: Einar Høst
I mentioned cURL in passing in the last blog post . In case you haven't heard of it: it is a super-useful tool you can use to issue HTTP requests from the command line (and a whole slew of other stuff). Just thought I'd jot down a quick note on ho...
07.11.2011

Bix-It: Pix-It in the Browser

av: Einar Høst
The previous blog post introduced PixItHandler , a custom HTTP handler for ASP.NET. The handler responds to HTTP POST requests containing a JSON description of a 8-bit style image with an actual PNG image. Provided you know the expected JSON forma...
06.11.2011

Pix-It War!

av: Einar Høst
So-called custom HTTP handlers can be incredibly useful. It's almost laughably easy to write your own handler, and it enables some scenarios that might be difficult, cumbersome or inelegant to support otherwise. It's definitely something you'll wa...
04.11.2011