Red gold over black with “cat face” incised design
Cat Face Bowl
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Jul 282012
Jul 282012
The almost fabric texture on this mug is an example of glaze thickness sensitivity. This teadust iron glaze (a form of tenmoku) forms a creamy base color in thicker areas, and a dark brown in thinner areas. The fabric like texture is the result of brushing the glaze on in multiple layers, each layer perpendicular [...]
Jul 282012
Coyote Blue with Gunmetal Green rim, Saturated Iron / tea dust interior.
AntiGravity #2
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Jul 282012
“AntiGravity” #2. Red gold over Black. Stoneware. Extra large apothecary jar and lid.
Green Rimmed Red Bowl
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Jul 282012
Gunmetal Green rim over Really Red interior and exterior. Stoneware. Slipcast from 3D printed mold bowl #1.
Jan 042012
Create a Web Service with .NET WCF. Plink, plink, done. Create a simple Java client to call that web service. Using the default Java SE 7u2 SDK + runtime downloadable from Oracle, you run wsimport to import the service WSDL and generate proxy classes. You write a little code to instantiate the service class and [...]
Jul 152011
Kudos to ZCorp for their recent new video reaching a lot of people (3.9 million views on YouTube as of this writing) who clearly had never heard of 3d printing before. However, all these 3D noobs blathering on about “wow! 3D printing is brand new!” and “star trek replicators are real!” is really becoming irritating. [...]
Jul 112011
Google+’s Circles feature to organize your contacts into distinct groups is generating a lot of discussion about how to best use this new tool. Some people are exited to finally have a degree of privacy and publishing control not found in Twitter, Facebook or other social sites. But is this privacy control or merely “privacy [...]
Jul 022011
We’ve had a Brother MFC 5860CN multifunction printer/fax/scanner in the office here for a couple of years. It’s a dependable little office helper, and does a good enough job of scanning for office paperwork. The old XP laptop has long been the scanning portal for our office. Remote Desktop into the laptop, scan stuff into [...]
Jun 092011
Ah, WPF. You’ve dotted your tees and crossed your eyes and your data bound control is still not showing any data from your collection. You set a breakpoint in the property getter that is providing the collection data, the breakpoint gets hit and returns your data, but the data doesn’t appear at the other end [...]
Feb 182011
I’ve been exploring the recent CTP5 release of .NET Entity Frameworks 4.0. I find the advancements in the “Code First” model of entity modeling encouraging, though I am a little concerned about discoverability. If things just magically happen when you name your properties just the right way, how will you know how to diagnose and [...]
Feb 092011
Mike Davies recently posted a scathing review of everything Lifehacker did wrong that led up to their recent site-wide outage. The root culprit, according to Davies: converting their site from using normal URLs to address content pages to using hash-bang URLs instead. I have no opinion on whether hash-bang URLs are the new root of [...]
Jan 132011
If you’re trying to generate classes or a dataset from an XSD schema file using the Visual Studio XSD.EXE command line utility and the only thing you’re getting out of XSD.EXE is an error message of Error: There was an error processing ‘xyz-schema.xml’. – DataSet cannot instantiate an abstract ComplexType for the node . [...]
Nov 122010
If you do a web search for how to use the LINQ XPathSelectElement function, the example code you will find falls into two categories: Those that don’t use namespaces at all, and those that use the same namespace prefix in the query as in the original document. Using no XML namespace at all when querying [...]
Oct 222010
Maarten Balliauw wrote a nice piece (with lots of pretty pictures and diagrams ;> ) about using Azure cloud infrastructure to take up excess load during periods of peak traffic beyond what your in-house hardware can handle. The idea is you can run your server app on your existing hardware most of the time, but in [...]
Sep 292010
Starting next Monday, October 4, I will be the latest shiny new employee at BiTKOO! BiTKOO is a small private company doing great things in the identity and authorization management space. After working at Microsoft on Visual Studio extensions for the past 2+ years (Windows Live Mesh app tools, then Visual Studio Tools for Windows [...]
Jun 072010
I’m pleased to announce that the June 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio is now available for free download! New features in this release: Full support for Visual Studio 2010 RTM .NET 4 support – You can now build your Windows Azure web apps and services using either .NET 3.5 or the [...]
Nov 302009
I just heard the news announced at PDC that the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF, is now slated to be included in Silverlight 4. Great news! I did a bit of proof of concept work using MEF about a year ago. MEF is all about composition of providers and consumers. MEF’s main job is to [...]
Nov 242009
Mike Wickstrand of the Windows Azure team has created a Windows Azure Feedback Forum to solicit feedback from you about what sorts of things/features/services you would like to see Windows Azure provide. You can enter your own suggestions and vote for the features that you want the most. This feedback will go directly to the [...]
Nov 172009
Windows Azure, Microsoft’s platform for cloud-based applications, just rolled out a major update to sync with PDC09. We of course also rolled out a major update of the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio in the same push. Jim Nakashima and others will be showing our latest tools at PDC09 this week. Windows Azure Tools [...]