Calvin Hsia's Web
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My Blog
As a professional software developer I created a blog in 2005 Calvin’s Blog
Originally, it was posted at blogs.msdn.com. Back in 2005, blogs were new and lots of people created blogs. I created a web site (in Visual FoxPro) used internally at Microsoft to show blog statistics once a month to see which blogs were most popular. Sort of a newer version of Calvin’s List (which earned me the position of one of the 1st Microsoft MVPs)
Over the years, people came and went from Microsoft, leaving their blogs abandoned.
Microsoft decided to retire blogs.msdn.com, but there was a lot of good content which was archived to docs.microsoft.com/archive
Music
I’m an amateur pianist (I love to play Ragtime), and I created a sheet music reader for my Steinway, that you can download and run for free.
Sheet Music Viewer Source Code and ReadMe.md
Sheet Music Viewer App Zip Download from GitHub Releases
Word Games
Here’s a C# game written with Xamarin that runs on Windows and Android, with the word dictionary part in a library that is shared between both:
The user tries dragging around the circle of letters to fill in the grid with words.
It uses the English word dictionaries at https://www.nuget.org/packages/DictionaryLib_Calvin_Hsia/
Source code: https://github.com/calvinhsia/WordScape
Camera on Raspberry Pi
I bought a Raspberry Pi for around $35, added a bunch of video cameras and a screen, wrote some code in C#
Here’s more of a description: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/calvin_hsia/create-a-security-system-with-cameras-on-your-windows-iot-raspberry-pi
Source Code: https://github.com/calvinhsia/UWPCamera
TreeMap Disk Space
Understanding what is taking up the most space on your disk
Seeing is understanding. Running it on C:\Program Files
(x86), I can easily see the large pink is taking a large space. The text and
the tooltip show it’s 3.3 G of system images of Android SDK.
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