Ivan Zlatev

PicasaUploader 0.5: Upload videos

I have released version 0.5 of PicasaUploader – the simple PicasaWeb uploader tool. Changes: Add support for uploading videos. Supported files are: .avi, .mpeg, .mpg, .wmv, .3gp, .asf, .mp4, .mov. However PicasaWeb can still reject any of those if it …

Google Maps Street View now available in 3D (Stereoscopic)

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 6 April, 2010 4 comments | Views: 957

Just noticed that I can toggle a stereoscopic view in Google Maps Street View. Funky. However I truly dislike stereoscopic “3D”, so I doubt I will ever be using this feature.

IBM

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 2 March, 2010 13 comments | Views: 433

I started at IBM UK (Hursley Labs) on Monday but it is only today that I got my permanent badge with all the security clearance added for the ultra confidential work I will be doing. One of the goodies when …

Domino’s Pizza Tracker

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 25 February, 2010 2 comments | Views: 302

Yesterday evening I noticed that one can now track the progress of his Domino’s Pizza order live:

Three new featurelets for Fluent NHibernate

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 13 December, 2009 2 comments | Views: 799

Lately I have been using Fluent NHibernate and NHibernate respectively for my ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) when working on my top secret pet project. Simply put – it’s great. Mapping is done using a fluent C# interface which makes use of …

How to avoid passing property names as strings using C# 3.0 Expression Trees

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 4 December, 2009 16 comments | Views: 4,212

Referencing property names via strings is evil. Consider this simplistic example: If at some point the property gets renamed the code will compile fine but a bug will be introduced as all those strings that contain the property name will …

Swine Flu (H1N1) as seen under microscope

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 10 November, 2009 No comments | Views: 217

Note 1: You should be able to spot a particular kind of animal on the above image. Note 2: I apologize if my humor hurts your feelings.

Индонезия Ден 0: Истанбул Летище

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 8 October, 2009 2 comments | Views: 104

В момента седя в един много приатен бар-ресторант на летището в Истанбул, което се казва Greenport. Преди час кацнах и доста обиколях терминала в търсене на контакт за лаптопшс, но тц – няма. За щастие скитайки нагоре надолу в този …

Fullmoon Trance on Full Moon

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 4 September, 2009 1 comment | Views: 86

Was listening to a couple of Fullmoon Trance from my collection when I noticed it’s full moon – a pretty one.

HowTo Disable the Unsigned Security Warnings on Windows Mobile

Posted by Ivan Zlatev on 15 August, 2009 No comments | Views: 970

The security warnings when deploying unsigned applications from Visual Studio to a real Windows Mobile device can get very annoying. Thankfully they can be disabled with a hack and here is how. Using the Remote Registry Editor supplied with Visual …

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