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Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:50 AM

What is a programmable abstraction?

In a recent blog post I described the principles behind Bling’s design. The primary principle is preferring programmable over fixed abstractions. But I feel that my definition of a programmable abstraction is so far unsatisfactory and undeveloped. To
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Monday, July 27, 2009 4:36 AM

Announcing Bling 3!

I’d like to announce a newly rewritten release of Bling with many improvements and exciting new features. Bling is a novel experiment in how WPF/UI programming can be enhanced via a lightweight domain-specific language hosted completely within C#. Bling
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Monday, July 27, 2009 3:01 AM

A web browser suitable for Harry Potter in WPF!

Daily Prophet eat your heart out! Here is a prototype web browser we threw together in Bling :   We (myself, my intern lighting-export Li SiYu, and a former intern Wang Chao who worked on the browser part) started with code from Chris Cavanagh's
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Monday, July 20, 2009 6:19 AM

Fun(ctional) graphics in C#!

Graphics programming often involves customizing and combining well known techniques as mathematic formulas and algorithms related to geometry, lighting, physics, and so on. For performance and architecture reasons, realizing these formulas in a real programming
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