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Articles by Dragos Sbirlea (8 articles found)

Average article rating: 3.87

Desktop Gadgets

Thumbnailgadget: Windows Vista API meets the Sidebar
Last Updated: 23 Jan 2007   Page Views: 34,749   Rating: 3.80/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 5.17   Bookmark Count: 25
Most Sidebar Gadgets are simple scripts. The Sidebar, though, the has potential to host any application, even if it uses the native API. This demo gadget allows you to preview any window using the Sidebar.
Command Prompt Gadget
Last Updated: 30 Jan 2007   Page Views: 47,425   Rating: 3.50/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 3.34   Bookmark Count: 26
A sidebar gadget that allows you to do what you usually did in the Command Prompt Window.
Drag and Drop Archiver gadget
Last Updated: 10 Feb 2007   Page Views: 35,765   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.12   Bookmark Count: 33
The proposed gadget allows compression of files and folders dragged on the sidebar using almost any format.

Libraries

Parallel programming on Playstation 3 (Cell architecture) by example: Puzzle solving
Last Updated: 14 Jul 2008   Page Views: 22,164   Rating: 4.59/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.78   Bookmark Count: 25
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A birds eye view of the programming model for the new Playstation 3 console and an interesting example of useful concurrency

Windows Presentation Foundation

Using 2D controls in a 3D environment
Last Updated: 26 Aug 2006   Page Views: 59,837   Rating: 4.19/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.00   Bookmark Count: 23
WPF allows users to create rich 3D interfaces, but it cripples productivity by not allowing a standard way of using the 2D controls in such an interface. Let's see if it can be done manually.
3D gadgets for your WPF Desktop
Last Updated: 20 Sep 2006   Page Views: 51,833   Rating: 3.21/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 3.47   Bookmark Count: 34
Have you ever imagined having 3D objects float on your desktop? Lets see how we can achieve such a result using only C# and WPF.
WPF Windows: Code-based layout versus XAML
Last Updated: 12 Aug 2006   Page Views: 33,355   Rating: 3.00/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 3.24   Bookmark Count: 14
Designing your windows from code has suffered from the introduction of WPF and its XAML. Nevertheless it is possible not to use the descriptive language at all. Lets see how.

Algorithms & Recipes

Quine McKluskey Algorithm
Last Updated: 30 Sep 2006   Page Views: 17,278   Rating: 4.64/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.45   Bookmark Count: 27
The Quine McKluskey algorithm is the most widely used algorithm for logical function minimisation. This article proposes a learning-oriented implementation using visual Karnaugh maps to simplify data input but also with increased usability in professional applications.

Dragos Sbirlea


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Dragos is currently a student at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He likes keeping up to date with new and amazing technologies and he hopes he will one day master the mechanisms behind modern day programming languages so that he can write the best possible code from a performance and maintainability point of view.

He keeps track of the things he learns on a daily basis on his blog, at http://picobit.wordpress.com/ .
Occupation: Software Developer
Location: Romania Romania


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