YouTube - The future of TV

I have been saying for the last couple of years that once we get true TV on demand we will stop becoming slaves to the networks. YouTube and Google Video are the start of that phenomena.

The thing I just found out about YouTube is that you can embed videos in any post and not worry about actaully hosting the video. See my post on the Blue Man Group for an example.

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FileSystemWatcher With the BlockingCollection

While working with the FileSystemWatcher I found that if too many files were created the built in buffer will overflowed and files will be skipped. After much research I found out about the Producer-Consumer Problem . Then I found that .Net 4 has the BlockingCollection which helps solve the issue. But how to use it with the FileSystemWatcher? On StackOverflow I found Making PLINQ and BlockingCollection work together . I'm not so interested in the PLINQ issue but this is a great example of using The BlockingCollection with FileSystemWatcher. [csharp] using System; using System.Collections.Concurrent; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Threading; namespace ConsoleApplication4 { public class Program { private const string Folder = "C:\\Temp\\InputData"; static void Main(string[] args) { var cts = new CancellationTokenSource(); foreach (var obj in Input(cts.Token))

C# Spirograph Point Generators

Spirograph's are cool. See here and here . I put together three ways to generate points for a Spirograph, first using a Brute Force straight generate the points, second using a Parallel.For and third using LINQ.

Excel User Defined Functions with C# and ExcelDna

Adding user defined functions to Excel can be laborious, either you use VBA or COM. Why can't Microsoft make it easier to use Visual Studio and .NET within Excel? Enter ExcelDna . This example creates a static function in C# using Visual Studio. There is documentation that already describes this, what I am adding is: Use Visual Studio to create project Post Build Events to help create the final XLL file. NOTE: I hate Post Build Events. The ONLY exception is in this case where I am modifying the output of the final build. Post Build Events are Evil especially when used in a large development team. A better solutions is to create actual Build Scripts that do what I am about to do. You have been warned. First, create a new Class Library project. Use NuGet to add a reference to the Excel-DNA package. NuGet will also add ExcelDna.dna and ExcelDna.xll to your project. Rename them both to the name that you want your final output xll to be. In my case I renamed them to Scratch-ExcelDn

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