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Custom Image Provider Implementation in PySide

Introduction In application development, projects require various depths of involvement. Some projects may need you to interconnect a bunch of trendy frameworks and open-source libraries, while other projects will require full-scale development in...


Resizing UIs with QML Layouts

Overview When I was first getting exposed to QML as a language for describing user interfaces, almost everything was easy to grasp except the concept of layouts. Their behavior never seemed natural, and I spent a lot of time fighting with them bef...


Advantages of .NET and Python for Test & Measurement Applications

Prologue In May 2019, at what would become the last NI Week ever, I led a session called “Learning to Love Text Again With Measurement Studio.” It was scheduled for 8:30 AM on the last day of the conference, so I was surprised that so ...


Measurement Studio: .NET Programming for NI Enthusiasts

Prologue In May 2019, at what would become the last NI Week ever, I led a session called “Learning to Love Text Again With Measurement Studio.” It was scheduled for 8:30 AM on the last day of the conference, so I was surprised that so ...


6 Tips for Working with Legacy Code That You Did Not Write

There may come a time as a programmer that you have to support a crucial existing system and while the task is daunting, there are still many actions you can take to make that process a lot easier. When you have to work with a deep expansive legacy s...


Sorting Multiple Columns in a Table with React

Tables are a fast way to show a lot of valuable data. There are many guides on sorting tables by a column in React, but sorting multiple columns is something that can take some effort. At the end of this guide, you should have a sortable table where ...


Setting Up Docker for WordPress Development

Way back when in 2014, I wrote a blog about setting up WordPress on IIS. At that time, Docker was only a year old and I hadn't even heard of it. It's now 2017 and things are different. Docker has matured and has gained enormous popu...


A Properly Pleasing Primer Tutorial for WPF Prism - Part 3:  Modules

In Part 2 of this series, I introduced the Shell and the Bootstrapper components of a Prism application. The stage is set. The crew's in place. It's time for Lights! Camera! Action! But first, we need to hire some actors. Modules To quo...


A Properly Pleasing Primer Tutorial for WPF Prism - Part 2:  The Shell and Bootstrapper

In Part 1 of this series, I gave a quick summary of what Prism is, and when and why you would want to use it. The remaining parts of this series will address the "how" of using it. Since this series is largely an overview, I won&#...


A Properly Pleasing Primer Tutorial for WPF Prism - Part 1:  Introduction

The usage of design patterns is situational. Their purpose is to reduce the overall complexity of an application or to replace unfamiliar complexity with manageable equivalents. For a sufficiently simple application, however, using patterns is often ...


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