Development by Davis: “Open, pop culture R&D lab for the public domain” plus 2 more

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• Open, pop culture R&D lab for the public domain
• Government tech stakeholders gather at state hackathon
• WinRT: getting a reference to files in the project

Open, pop culture R&D lab for the public domain Posted: 22 Jan 2013 01:00 AM PST Release early, often, and with rap music. Evan Roth is a maker of things with a specific interest in tools of empowerment, open source, and popular culture. We covered him and some of his work recently in an article about how open source is disrupting visual art. And here, we give you some insight into the guy behind open source rap, graffiti, and Brooklyn's first and only R&D lab for the public domain: F.A.T. Lab. Read more... read more

Government tech stakeholders gather at state hackathon Posted: 21 Jan 2013 11:00 PM PST Great things for open government happened last year on November 15-16 at the 4th annual Capitol Camp event, organized and hosted by the New York State Senate and the New York State Office of Information Technology Services, in collaboration with the Center for Technology in Government. I have discussed recently the NY State Senate progressive stance on open government and its embrace of open source. Capitol Camp 2012 was another display of the powerful benefits the adoption of open practices in government can bring to the public. The event involved an unconference-day and a hackathon-day, both of them fully open to the public. Read more... read more

WinRT: getting a reference to files in the project Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:29 AM PST In Windows Store Apps, you might often need to get a reference to some files that you included in the application package via managed code. To accomplish this, you need an instance of the System.Uri and using a new format that is specific to WinRT. For instance, supposing you have an image file inside a folder called Images of your project, in managed code you get a reference like this: Dim img As New Uri("ms-appx:///ProjectName/Images/MyImage.png") You use the msappx:/// format followed by the root namespace, the folder name (optional), and the file name. It is important to specify the root namespace (even though not mandatory) because in this way you will be able to reference other items belonging to other projects in the solution, which are still part of the application package. Alessandro

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