Category Archives: Computers and Internet

Infographic Misdirection and Bias Influencing

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Larry Louisiana

  When I saw this infographic it instantly stuck me as off. I had to look very closely to discover exactly how it was misleading me. This article is clearly biased in the favor of Google, the info depicted here implies … Continue reading →

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So you wanna make a Healthcare website..?

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Larry Louisiana

All the kerfluffel around the HealthCare.Gov website debacle is a bit funny and frustrating to me. I start with the frustrating bits, and then I will discuss the humor in it all. It’s Frustrating that the Senators are not asking the right questions and … Continue reading →

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All your Foreign key are showing!

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Larry Louisiana

Just this week I needed the ability to find all the foreign keys in my SQL DB as there was something that didn’t quite makes sense to me, and it’s better to know then to be sorry.. Here is the … Continue reading →

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To build a better mouse trap…

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Larry Louisiana

Where is the next Horizon? I find it appropriate as we have gotten to the plateau and nobody can seem to see the next higher mountain… and I am in a “giving my opinion” mood lately… So what are the … Continue reading →

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XBOX ONE Reveal… – Reviewed

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Larry Louisiana

New Features Personalizable home screen “Trending” Live Tile TV Tuner voice activated Replaces your cable receiver XBOX ONE Guide HULU -Like Favorites & Trending Multi Tasking Multi threading “desktop” Natural User Interface Use your xbox like in Minority report Skype on … Continue reading →

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C++ Lib or Dll?

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Larry Louisiana

I have been looking into Developing Win8 Games using C++ and the first question I was faced with was should I use a C++ Lib or a C++ Dll, and what is the difference, why should I choose one over … Continue reading →

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HRESULT: 0X80070043

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Larry Louisiana

The network name cannot be found. One possible solution is to use Regedit to modify (on my Windows 7 machine) HKEY_Current_User/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders->Personal HKEY_Current_User/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders->Personal Note: There had been some changes in the network recently and they did not propagate to this … Continue reading →

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Hello Hadoop

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Larry Louisiana

I am very interested in Graph databases (for my AI, and game and  on and on…) so I talked to Steve Hughes, who said.. (and has said this to me so many times I think I’m annoying him) “Why don’t you Use … Continue reading →

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Step by step to deploying App to Surface

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Larry Louisiana

Magenic recently gave out it’s Christmas present, so the first thing I did was try to deploy code to it.. and then I wrote the tutorial,  so you can: Download the ARM version of Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012  to your … Continue reading →

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Portable Class Libraries

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Larry Louisiana

Tuesday I attempted to gave a talk at Code Mastery MN about Portable Class Libraries in Windows 8. Turns out PCL development is harder than I had thought it would be. I thought I would convert the Platformer XNA game over … Continue reading →

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