Serialization choices

I’ve been recently looking into different serialization options. While there are plenty of writeups (even in C#) already available, I wanted to: Have one about C# Learn something new 😉 Look into my particular data distribution / characteristics Understand not only performance, but also size impact I’d say that there are very few summaries that you should ...

Ruby – Regex – Special characters

“There ain’t no such thing as plain text”. Joel Spolsky (what every developer must know about unicode). This text is based on the assumption, that current locale uses UTF-8 encoding. Behavior might differ for other encodings. I use Ruby 2.0 for evaluation. I was recently doing some text parsing in my native language (which is ...

Kinect Slideshow

Kinect Slideshow
Instead of regular wireless presenter, you might use Kinect to impress your viewers. Application allows changing slides by waving your hand from right to left in Windows. Combined with Impress.Js usually impresses non-technical people. Application might be downloaded from: http://kinect.psla.pl/ Requires hardware: Kinect for Windows  regular kinect with appropriate adapters: Requires following software: Kinect SDK Microsoft ...