Something Smells

Not sure if I posted my interview done by Rustici: http://scorm.com/blog/2011/04/interview-with-dan-pupek-chief-systems-architect-at-advanced-systems-technology/

I was very pleased to find this. Been using it as a reference: http://www.albahari.com/threading/

Been playing with FFMpeg and Mencoder to create videos from a list of Images and an audio file. Here is the command I used: ffmpeg -loop_input -vframes 50 -f image2 -i foo-1.png -r 10  foo1.avi ffmpeg -loop_input -vframes 50 -f image2 -i foo-2.png -r 10  foo2.avi ffmpeg -loop_input -vframes 25 -f image2 -i foo-3.png -r 10  foo3.avi ffmpeg -loop_input -vframes 25 -f image2 -i foo-4.png -r 10  foo4.avi mencoder -audiofile foo.wav  -oac copy -ovc copy -o output.avi foo1.avi foo2.avi foo3.avi foo4.avi

So, if you are using the ActiveRecord/NHibernate stack I highly recommend switching to query over. The syntax is cleaner and it's type-safe. Here is an example of a criterion based query: Here is an example of the same query in QueryOver: Unlike the Linq language for Nhibernate QueryOver is just a translation layer for Criterion.

I was having some trouble getting my ListBox items to stretch across the entire ListBox. I did not want to get into the game of dropping into code to fix layout issues. Here is what I had to do. This first attempt did not work: I had assumed that the HorizontalContentAlignment attribute would do the trick. For most controls it does. I was wrong. Here is what I finally had to do: Notice the addition of the container style. As far as I can tell this is a bug. I found the original answer here .