First images from New Horizon’s downlink released!

When I was around 8 years old, I asked my parents to buy a big book called “Planet’s Atlas”. Since then, I’ve always been extremely fascinated by the mysteries of the Universe.
However, I was a bit disappointed by the fact Pluto didn’t have pictures as beautiful as the other planets. For almost 20 years I wished someday I’d be able to see the surface of Pluto as it really is.

Finally, July 14, 2015, my wish became reality. Now the year-long downlink of every bit of data recorded by New Horizons is finally started.
Here’s some of the pictures uploaded by NASA. You can find the related post following this link.

Thank you NASA for making my wish come true!

The Sound of Sorting Algorithms

Take a look at this extremely interesting visualization and audio transposition of the most common sorting algorithms.

 

An easy and maintainable implementation of IsolatedStorageSettings

Recently I’ve been working on a Windows Phone app that comes with a good number of settings to implement. The official examples that anyone can find online report a simple procedure. Let’s say I want to implement the UserToken setting, then I would have to do something like this: [code language=”csharp”] // Access the settings … Read more