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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:59 PM

Animation 101

Last night I was working on the GUI for Impilo Health Management and decided to try out WPF animation. Because the KIOSK application is designed for a touch screen environment, I wanted on top of the menu buttons a little animation that fist showed the word "Touch" and after a second hide the "Touch" and write "Here". This was very easy using WPF and blend. I just added a timeline and hidden the "Here" for 1 second and then hidden the "Touch" and...
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:10 AM

SQL + Images

I have a question for all the SQL experts... In the Impilo Health Management project, I want to create a browser of all the existing gym equipment. I created tables in my database to store information about these machines (ie. Description, instructions, manufacture, etc). I also need a image or thumbnail of this machine to be displayed using a LINQ query? Should I: Store the image in the SQL database and bind it to the Image object Store a path name to a image and bind this to the Image URI? For...
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Monday, May 14, 2007 7:49 PM

Should I log every visit?

As I mentioned in some earlier blogs of mine,I am working on a Health Club Management suit of applications called Impilo. I am currently busy updating the database and I am faced with relatively big dicsion. The application needs to keeps records of the gym members visits. I am now wondering if my Members table must just have a value called visits and I increment this visits or should I rather creat a new table called Visit that keeps a refrence to the members ID and saves the date and time of the...
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