Continuing in the series, we build upon our prior work on the OCR kata and proceed to actually compute the checksum of an account number. In order to keep this under fifteen minutes, we only get so far as computing the checksums of empty and invalid account numbers. Enjoy!
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Jan 292012
This post is as much a reminder for myself as it is for public consumption. I don’t like being too dependent on a tool, especially for mundane things such as auto-closing of brackets and parentheses. My thinking here is that if I do become too dependent on a given tool, when I move to another [...]
Jan 272012
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 [...]
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 [...]
