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Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:22 PM

Designer for my path finding boards

I'm writing a small application (or rather a screen saver) that animates and demonstrates A* search algorithm . The idea is simple. On screen you see a start and end point and some random obstacles in between them. Then you see animation on how A* algorithm
Posted by abhinaba | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:48 PM

Microsoft Surface

I'm sure you have heard about this a 1000 times by now. But this time you get to hear about Microsoft Surface from someone who has used it. In case you have not heard about it, Microsoft Surface (this takes ever to load so you can try another video here
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:18 PM

Pop-fly rocks

Pop-fly is one of the most amazing piece of coolness that Microsoft shipped. From the domain name to the interface it's cool all the way. See my rotating image sphere here . Not: that this'll install Silver Light (which is less than a mb). It took me
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:07 PM

Remember me on this computer.

That is what a popular site said when I visited it's login page. But hey, I was using a cell phone :). I know I'm nitpicking but more and more users are getting onto cell phones for browsing and the sites need to be careful. Yahoo for example is and says
Posted by abhinaba | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:42 PM

The Vista busy cursor

The Vista busy cursor is very interesting. Everyone I know liked it instantly. However, it deviates substantially from the hour-glass busy cursors we were used to. The funny part is that everyone seems to call it by their own name. I sent an email to
Posted by abhinaba | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:42 PM

The all new Yahoo messenger

WPF is slowly catching up and revolutionizing the way we design and create UI. Check out the new Yahoo Messenger for Vista being developed with WPF at http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php
Posted by abhinaba | 1 Comments
Monday, December 11, 2006 10:42 AM

Conditional Text

We have moved to a new Satellite TV provider some time back. It is time to pay the quarterly bill, so I dug up their manual to look for online payment options. Sure enough there was a section on "Internet payments". I opened the section and it had one
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:31 PM

Funny messages are not always funny

I used to work in a Company where Easter Eggs used to be considered a feature and there used to be a official maintainer for it (I used to maintain both the Easters listed here and more). I used to feel that Microsoft shouldn't have moved away from inserting
Posted by abhinaba | 8 Comments
Friday, November 17, 2006 7:42 PM

Program performed illegal operation. Let's call the police

One of our Colleague's young kids were working on a computer when it popped up a message " Program has performed illegal operation and will be shut down ". He got urgent call from his 9 year old daughter "Dad, does this mean that the police will come?".
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Friday, November 17, 2006 4:05 PM

IE 7 menu bar

I'm using IE 7 for some time and lovin it. I had believed that IE has done away with the menu. Whatever functionality I needed were available through the Tools and Page split buttons in the toolbar and I always printed using Ctrl+P so I never felt the
Posted by abhinaba | 7 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:42 AM

using UIAutomation events

In my previous post I had written about how UIAutomation (UIA) can be used to drive user interfaces. UIA was designed to serve both assistive and test-automation requirements. Both of these require that user interfaces fire events to notify clients that
Posted by abhinaba | 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:42 AM

Multiple desktop support in Windows

In my previous job I worked in the development team of Adobe FrameMaker . This product shipped on Sun Solaris, Windows and Mac. I worked parallely on a Windows box, a Sun Blade system and a PowerMac G5 . So I got used to the best of all of them. Solaris
Posted by abhinaba | 14 Comments
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:42 PM

using UIAutomation

With Beta 2 most developers inside Microsoft has started playing with Vista. Among a lot of uber-cool features one of the interesting feature is UIAutomation . This is the next-gen assistive/UI-Automation technology that succeeds Active Accessibility
Posted by abhinaba | 19 Comments
Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:17 PM

Most users do not read documentation

This was something our User-Experience folks keep telling us. Frameworks and UI needs to be designed such that they fall into the pattern that'll be assumed by the user. Recently I got bitten by this. I was writing some verification code which needed
Posted by abhinaba | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:10 PM

Cost of correctness

I have a program that needs to print the results of a query. So I create a localizable string, use string.Format and print the results as in Your query returned 5 results. This looks good. Now a tester assigned to test this tried another query and got
Posted by abhinaba | 6 Comments
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