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Just a quick post this time: I had a need to be able to reposition a WPF window when I click and dragged on a particular UIElement. The aim was to recreate the behaviour of clicking and dragging on a standard Windows title bar (in my case, I was implementing

I was intrigued by a post on Stack Overflow today where a developer was asking how to convert the current time to Eorzea Time, a fictional timebase used in Final Fantasy XIV’s persistent game world. I’ve never played FFXIV – and probably never will, but I was intrigued by

If you’re new to the async and await keywords in C# and .NET, then it’s likely you will eventually stumble across this deadlock scenario, which is difficult to debug if you’re not familiar with how async and await work under the hood. Consider this example asynchronous method

If you’re using the MVVMLight toolkit within your WPF project, you may have come across this error message if you’re using the SimpleIoC container to help provide design-time data when working in Blend for Visual Studio: Typically within your ViewModelLocator, you would have some code like this: /// <

Wow, has it really been over two years since I last posted something to my blog? I have no idea where that time has gone … well, actually – I do have a tiny excuse. In October 2013 my wife gave birth to our first, beautiful baby girl, Ellie. It’s been

DCPs (or Digital Cinema Packages) are a fairly specialised form of distributing films and video for digital cinema. The emphasis of this format is on high-resolution, and high-quality – supporting up to 4k films encoded using the JPEG2000 codec. In the vast majority of cases you would want to take your

[vc_row][vc_column][us_image image=”1377″ align=”center” size=”full” link=””][vc_column_text]Here we are again. A few days ago, Apple used a rather cosy venue on their own campus to unveil the latest iteration of the iPhone, the iPhone 4S. Stepping back from all the

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There’s something strangely beautiful about star trail photographs. They’re wonderfully abstract, but at the same time very, very real. I love how something as scientific as the rotation of the planet and be represented by something so captivating. I\’ve been wanting to experiment with long exposures with

[vc_row][vc_column][us_image image=”1129″ size=”full” link=”” onclick=”lightbox”][us_separator icon=”fas|star” show_line=”1″ line_width=”default”][vc_column_text]It’s been a long while since I set myself a photographic project, and I’ve always liked the somewhat self-indulgent idea of

Automator is a little used, and misunderstood application available to all Mac users. If you’ve used it before, then you might find this article interesting as it looks at setting up an automatic folder action for your workflow. If the previous sentence didn’t even make sense, then read

[vc_row][vc_column][us_image image=”991″ size=”full” link=”” onclick=”lightbox”][vc_column_text]I’ve long been a fan of Apple’s photograph management tool, Aperture, but it’s only in the last year – along with the purchase of a new iMac – that I’ve really started