Cognitive Neuroscience

• Video Intro
• Richard Ivry of Berkley

IDEs

• WebStorms

Commodities

The latest round of Mideast revolts seem to be influenced by record high food prices.  The FAO has the data on its site.

World Food Index

http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/en/

Market Talk

Terminology index for the market:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/limitup.asp

ClickOnce

ClickOnce deployment solves a number of maintenance and logistics issues, while adding a few new concerns.  No longer does a warm body need to run around updating PCs.

But how do you update and track various versions?  The manifest contains information about a specific version of a ClickOnce application and the various supporting assemblies in a human readable XML format.  The "assemblyIdentity" element specifies the primary assembly for the application while the "dependency" element lists all the prerequisites assemblies.

The manifest is also accompanied by a precompiled manifest named *.CDF-MS.

Walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc3tc5xx(VS.80).aspx


Look into using MSBuild to publish the ClickOnce to the Web.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165431(v=vs.80).aspx

For concurrent deployments, make sure to change the assembly name and product name.

http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/clickonce-installing-multiple-versions-concurrently/

Stencils

The UML Stencils for Visio: http://www.softwarestencils.com/uml/index.html

VB.NET -- Checkerboard in PictureBox

    Private Sub CheckerBoard()
 
        Dim rect As New Rectangle
 
        ' create a Graphics object to draw into it
        Dim pbox As Graphics = PictureBox1.CreateGraphics
        mSquWidth = PictureBox1.Width / CDbl(mCols)
        mSquHeight = PictureBox1.Height / CDbl(mRows)
        rect.Width = mSquWidth
        rect.Height = mSquHeight
 
        Dim r, c
        For r = 0 To mRows - 1
            For c = 0 To mCols - 1
                If ((r + c) Mod 2) = 0 Then
                    ' create a Graphics object to draw into it
                    pbox.FillRectangle(Brushes.Azure, rect)
                    pbox.DrawRectangle(Pens.Pink, rect)
                Else
                    pbox.FillRectangle(Brushes.BlueViolet, rect)
                    pbox.DrawRectangle(Pens.Red, rect)
                End If
                rect.X = c * mSquWidth
                rect.Y = r * mSquHeight
                ' create a Graphics object to draw into it
                pbox.FillRectangle(Brushes.BlueViolet, rect)
                pbox.DrawRectangle(Pens.Red, rect)
            Next
        Next
 
    End Sub