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Validate a value based on the value of another property

Validate a value based on the value of another property

Posted on 28/04/201630/07/2016 by Alessandro Colla
Validate a value based on the value of another property In this post, I will show how to create a helper to validate the length of a property based on the value of another one, to be precise, to check... Read More
Write a custom Lucene.net TokenFilter

Write a custom Lucene.net TokenFilter

Posted on 07/06/201513/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
In an e-commerce, one of the most important features is the search. Not only from the UX perspective (you can find many articles on the net), but also from the results given back to the users. They mu... Read More
Browser history and urls seo friendly with async page load

Browser history and urls seo friendly with async page load

Posted on 19/05/201413/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
In modern web sites, we use async load of pages to reduce the amount of data asked to the server and to improve the browsing experience of the user. Basically an SPA web application. Two problems you ... Read More
Oculus Rift, Kinect and Drone completed

Oculus Rift, Kinect and Drone completed

Posted on 25/08/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Recently I completed my experiment with the Oculus Rift and a Kinect to drive a Parrot Ar.Drone. Using Kinect I implemented both voice commands and gestures to drive the drone. With voice commands, I ... Read More
Experiments with Oculus Rift, Kinect and a drone

Experiments with Oculus Rift, Kinect and a drone

Posted on 27/07/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Recently, thanks to my friends at Digitalmind, I was able to put my hands on an Oculus rift’s developer kit and an Ar.Drone. I wanted to start by simply streaming the video feed of the parrot to... Read More
MVC paging extension with scrolling page numbers

MVC paging extension with scrolling page numbers

Posted on 07/07/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
In a project I worked on recently, I got the request to page the results of a search without showing all the page numbers, but only a limited set. I had to show only 10 pages and let them scroll forwa... Read More
Create an Excel document with OpenXML SDK

Create an Excel document with OpenXML SDK

Posted on 02/12/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
In the last post we saw how to replace the bookmark of a Word document with some values using the OpenXML SDK. This time we will do the same with an Excel file. The first thing to note is that an Exce... Read More
Replace word bookmarks at runtime with the Open XML SDK

Replace word bookmarks at runtime with the Open XML SDK

Posted on 11/11/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Using Open XML SDK 2.0 it is possible to create from scratch Word, Excel or Power Point documents without using interops anymore. This is pretty cool, because you do not need any more to install the o... Read More
A face tracking sample with XNA and Emgu

A face tracking sample with XNA and Emgu

Posted on 07/10/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
In my previous post, we saw how to implement a simple stream from a web cam as a background in an XNA application. Now I will go a little further and implement a simple face tracking algorithm. For th... Read More
XNA and webcam stream as background

XNA and webcam stream as background

Posted on 30/09/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Recently I worked on a XNA project that needed to show the stream from a web cam as the background of the game. After some searches I found nothing that worked with XNA 4.0. So I ended up putting toge... Read More

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