Make a commanding solution for the HTML client using the same technique is easy as Paul has done most of the work for us.

I am using VisualStudio 2013, but VS2012 wth the LightSwitch update should work as well.

Server Side

As previous, inject the following package into the LightSwitch server project (make sure you are targetting the server project).

Update 11/8/2013: More details on adding the server package

PM> Install-Package TheLightSwitchToolbox.WebApiCommanding.Server

Read Paul’s web-api articles for details on what this package does.

Client Side

Instead of using TheLightSwitchToolbox SilverlightClient we only need to add a couple of lines of code to any screen that requires the ability to call the api.

I have created a HTML project with a table: Person and screen: BrowsePerson To this I added a local string property: CommandReturn at the top of the screen and the method: PeopleCommanding_ItemTap on the Item Tap Action of the list.

The ItemTap action is very simple and a translation to javascript of the C# in the original Silverlight package.

For this example I made FirstCommand just return what it got in. Again see Paul’s original web-api series for more details.

And with that, it works!

Much more theme work needs to be done, but I want to publish.

This search can be automatically created by copying this link and pasting into your Alfred box.

Alfred GOG Search in Alfred

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alfredapp://customsearch/GOG/gog/ascii/url=http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue/#all_genres/search/{query}

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Your resulting custom search will look like this

It looks like there is a real problem with the touch screen ordering system at Terminal 5 JFK.

I got an old 486 laptop from a friend. How do you decide what to do with it? Of course, you have to install OS/2.

Ebay and hours later…..

…first floppy is dead. Darn.

Nukey Brown Ale from Northern Brewer. This is yet another thing I spent years talking about and finally accomplishing. The next eight weeks can’t pass quickly enough.

I’ve used about ½ of this book so far. It hangs out in my back pocket all the time and has held up remarkably for the past 2 months. I have other notebooks, but this is my INBOX, shopping list, conference calls, etc book.

I could never do that to my beautiful http://fieldnotesbrand.com/ravens-wing/set. I need to find something really special for them.

On my third try for Ginger Ale (it seems my recipe is more Ale than Beer) I made some more changes.

• I doubled the ginger
• I used a citrus juicer
• I used champagne yeast

This resulted in a much more carbonated beverage. It really shared some taste characteristics with champagne. I still think the lemon overpowers the ginger. The sugar is about perfect at ¾ cup, but it still precipitates out more than I would like.

Next attempt will be a radical departure. Simple syrup, extracting ginger with heat, a touch of clove or anise all will be tried.

But when I’m on my laptop, I use AppleWin, an Apple 2 emulator for Windows.  It is pretty full featured and does a very good job.  Unfortunately it does have a small drawback.

My laptop’s native resolution is 1920 X 1080.  This makes the default AppleWin window size of 622 x 427 very small and hard to read, especially as my eyes get worse every year.

I decided to dig into the source code, and see how easy it would be do double the size of the virtual window.  After a few days of relearning C and rediscovering Windows GUI programming, I was able to produce a binary that does just that.  The viewport is now 1120 x 768, up from 560 x 384.

I took a few shortcuts, so there are a couple of caveats to mention.

• There is no choice whether to double or not, it just doubles
• I did not convert all the magic numbers in the code to variables or constants
• I removed the optimized progressive refresh, and replaced with a full emulated screen one (already in the code but disabled due to some glimmering)
• I cheated and make a helper function that translates the BilBlt GDI calls into a StretchBlt call.
• I have not experimented with SetStretchBltMode to produces the best quality image

I plan on continuing my work on this and creating a proper patch to submit to the project.  I would like to make the double size selectable from config screen, remove all the magic numbers and investigate reimplementing the progressive update logic.

Enough of the technical details, if you want to test this out, the zip below contains:

• ApplewinDouble.exe which you can place in your Applewin directory and run with the same config
• ApplewinDoubleSize.patch which is a source code patch to the AppleWin source code

Before the download, just a quick video sample of the results.

Download (Code & binary released under the GPL 2.0 to comply with AppleWin license)

The results of my Ginger Beer fermentation were mixed. I made a quick
video to share with the results with the world.

Start

First attempt to make Ginger Beer.

And the answer…

5/6 * 100 = 83,3

I’m going to attempt this today. I’ve pre-posted this so I can’t read any of your replies.

From Evernote:

Optimizing Algorithms in AppleSoft Basic

This was a fairly simple project that only took about 15 minutes. I had fun and the result was pretty cool. not having done a project like this since high school, it jumpstarted my interest.

Movie created with iMovie on the iPhone 4. I am impressed with the results as I’m no video editor.