This post is a continuation of our prior work on the OCR coding kata. I’ve started narrating, and am keeping the parts down to fifteen minutes or less. This one is about nine minutes, and starts in on the checksum calculation, specifically concentrating on making the digits in the account number aware of their position [...]
Jan 272012
This post builds upon prior work where we used C# with DirectShow.NET to enumerate video capture devices on a given machine. We use the device enumerator we built there to help us start composing a filter graph. DirectShow uses the word filter to denote any software component that performs an operation on a multimedia stream. [...]
This post is a quick little ditty about how to enumerate over all video capture devices on your machine using the DirectShow.NET library. The DirectShow.NET library is a C# library that sits atop Microsoft’s DirectShow API. This library helps you avoid some of the headaches associated with accessing unmanaged libraries from managed code. For our [...]
Hewing to the truth is a principle that applies to all facets of life, not just development or managing a development team. I’m focusing on the managing aspect because it has come front and center in this area for me in the last few months. As a manager of a development team, I have two [...]
Jan 052012
Continuing with the Kata Bank – OCR problem from part 1, we move on to actually parsing out some numbers from their corresponding string representations. A bit long, and still no narration, but this will be the last installment that will be sans voice.
Jan 022012
As my development team has been taking up test-driven development, I’ve sensed on at least a couple of occasions that the words I’ve used to describe such haven’t been enough. Pairing has been of worth, but I wanted something more “on the record.” To wit, a video series where I lay down my take on [...]
Dec 262011
Being a .NET developer, I’m used to mouse-driven development. As any coder worth their salt will tell you, this means I’m about half as efficient as I could be, so I strive daily to reduce my dependence on said rodent in all things computer. At work my team uses Subversion, notably Tortoise. This is a [...]
I just recently closed out a round of hiring for my development team. My company’s hiring process is a standard one: initial phone screen, followed by code test and a short to medium length face to face interview with some technical staff, finally followed by a medium interview with management. If we really like you [...]
