http://thoughtrush.com/blog Accidental Learning... by Blake Tolbert Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:13:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I decided to build a simple project management application in my quest to wrap my head around WPF.  So far I set up the database, got an Entity Framework model happily binding, and started writing CRUD "pages" (the TabItems of a TabControl as shown in the GUI shown). These pages share ... http://thoughtrush.com/blog/2008/07/01/wpf-master-pages-kinda-sorta/ I just have to blog this so I can help anybody else in this situation (including myself next time I need it). I was trying to recover data from a friend's computer with a sick hard drive. I couldn't boot into Windows due to some poorly placed bad sectors so ... http://thoughtrush.com/blog/2008/04/15/all-i-want-to-do-is-copy-some-files/ No, this isn't a DDR post, but it's close. :) During my regular blast through Lifehacker posts a few weeks ago, this post called Burn 600 Calories a Day Typing (source) caught my eye. Long story short, Jonathan Fields built a fancy keyboard for his treadmill and he walks slowly ... http://thoughtrush.com/blog/2008/04/04/exercise-while-playing-xbox/ I don't know about you, but it seems more difficult to get started with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) than it should be. I've been dabbling with it for a while, but I recently wanted to build a client-side application to track my ongoing projects and decided to resist ... http://thoughtrush.com/blog/2008/03/29/getting-started-with-wpf/ Want to listen to that 8 hour audio book in 6 hours and not lose any details in the process? I love Windows Media Player's ability to speed up or slow down audio and video in real-time via its awesome Play Speed setting. This is commonly referred to as time ... http://thoughtrush.com/blog/2008/03/17/time-stretching-mp3-and-other-audio/ Hello, World!  My name is Blake and I want to share things with you.  No, not those kinds of things.  Nice things.  Like knowledge.  I consider myself an accidental learner which means I stumble though information at various levels of efficiency and absorb stuff as I go.  That results in ... http://thoughtrush.com/blog/2008/03/12/so-this-is-my-blog/