The inspiration for this neologism -- which mashes up rhizome + ohm -- are the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in particular the introduction to their book, A thousand plateaus [1], in which they articulate a vision and explication of rhizomatic systems. A rhizome, in …
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I was on a machine with no dev tools and needed to recompile a .dll for .NET 1.1. I had the .csproj file and am so MSBuild-centric that I figured I'd open a command prompt and type: set path=%path%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 Then I'd be all set. …
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It bothers me when there is a great sample application available, but no one can get to it unless they are a developer who downloads the source and compiles the application. Such is the case with a desktop application that is part of the Microsoft Facebook Developer Toolkit called Facebook Des…
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So you want to spawn a new WPF window but you don't want it to be activated? This is doable in Win32, but with WPF, it presents some problems ... until now. This issue recently came up and some folks (read: not me) on the WPF team discovered a a pretty clever workaround. Basically,…
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I've got a session proposed for the 2008 SxSW Interactive Conference called Why Microsoft Doesn't Suck. More philosophical than technical, this session, if picked, will be a culmination of some ideas that I have been cogitating on for awhile, many of which will start filtering out into th…
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I want to throw up some prototype code that consumes JSON from WPF. (For more on JSON, see this article.) I put together that uses the JavaScriptSerializer to deserialize JSON into CLR objects, which could then be used for databinding. Here's what I did. First, I went and downloaded the ASP.N…
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Irhetroic Enters the Rhizohm
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