Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
CHC 2011 HealthVault talk, and what is new for HealthVault this past year…
When we were creating our talk, we had a problem. Well, to be fair, we had a few problems, but the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/02/2011
Speaking at CHC 2011
I'm in Chicago this week to speak at the Microsoft Connected Health Conference, 2011 edition. It's...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/27/2011
Data sorting dances
Intercultural Computer Science Education Data sorting dances I enjoyed the dances, though I'm not...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/13/2011
Default parameters in C#
From an internal discussion we're having on the advisability of using default parameters in C#:...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/23/2011
Writing Tests for HealthVault Applications
We have added some useful new functionality designed to make it easier to test a HealthVault...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/11/2011
HealthVault Event Notifications
The HealthVault platform now provides the ability to notify applications when specific conditions...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/20/2011
Naked came the null delegate
I few weeks ago James Curran came up with the idea of a number of .NET bloggers (or, in my case,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/01/2010
HealthVault SDK and Visual Studio 2005
The HealthVault SDK is currently built on top of the .NET 2.0/Visual Studio 2005 toolset. We are...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/12/2010
Photographers at Microsoft Fundraiser
There’s a fairly active photography alias at Microsoft, and last year during October – the annual...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/07/2010
Bohemiam Rhapsody… on the slide whistle…
Just wonderful. I love how he went to the trouble to overdub the way the original video was and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/29/2010
Metricism
Your neologism for the day... Metricism A devotion to creating and implementing metrics for a system...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/12/2010
Floating point numbers and string representations
I’ve recently been doing some work on the HealthVault SDK to improve the consistency of how it deals...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/07/2010
Uncyclopedia and Llamas
For some unfathomable reason, I didn't know about Uncyclopedia until recently. Like many things...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/02/2010
A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages
A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/10/2010
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Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/05/2010
The power of "ouch"...
From my bicycle blog... Three of them
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/25/2010
The power of "no"...
Eric Brechner wrote an interesting post titled "Don't panic", about how to deal with requests. I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/01/2009
Lucky
Sometimes you're in the right place at the right time...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/16/2009
HealthVault 0908 SDK Highlights…
The 0908 SDK has dropped, and I’d like to talk about some of the highlights of this release. SODA...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/16/2009
Blog refactoring 2.0
In the beginning, I started this blog just to write. I wrote a lot of C# stuff, some regex stuff,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/16/2009
Question of the day
Is Cinderella related to Mozzarella?
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/03/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #13: More more than one person
In the last installment, we modified our application so that it could switch between family members...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/14/2009
Thoughts on agile design and platforms
I started by writing a broad post about design, and it got away from me (apparently I should have...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/14/2009
RAMROD 2009 ride report
https://riderx.info/blogs/riderx/archive/2009/08/06/ramrod-2009.aspx
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/06/2009
NASA images lunar descent stage and astronaut path on moon...
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, a NASA orbiter images Apollo landing sites. The...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/17/2009
Is programming a generic skill?
Came across a post by Justin Etheredge discussion whether changing between languages is just a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/25/2009
Livestrong Seattle Century report
From my cycling blog...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/24/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #12: More than one person…
WeightTracker has gotten popular, and we have a new scenario. Our users would like us to extend our...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/19/2009
Rekeying the HealthVault/Amalga USB Key
If you attended the connected health conference last week, you got a USB key with a combination lock...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/15/2009
Suggest a HealthVault topic...
Is there something about HealthVault that you find confusing? If so, add a comment to this post, and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/11/2009
7 Hills of Kirkland 2009
7 Hills of Kirkland 2009
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/27/2009
Microsoft Connected Health Conference
The HealthVault Partner Conference is a year older and has a new name. The Microsoft Connected...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/05/2009
Progressio per Patientia
"Progress through suffering" I have a friend (perhaps "riding acquaintance" is a more accurate term)...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/26/2009
Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering
The users are unhappy. The weight tracking application worked pretty well initially, but now that...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/17/2009
HealthVault XPath Explorer
By default, when a query is made to HealthVault, it returns all instances of a specific type. If you...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/10/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #10: Adding additional data to healthvault
We have a new user request. One of our users would like to store how hungry he whenever he enters a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/13/2009
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Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #9: Optional Authorization
This week, we have a new customer request. One of our customers wants to track her mood on a daily...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/06/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #8: Related items
Our current application allows users to track their weight, but some of our users also want to track...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/27/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #7 – Data provenance
After our application is “in the wild” for a while, we receive some strange reports from our users....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/20/2009
Age of Halo
My daughter downloaded the demo for Halo Wars a few days ago, and I spent a few hours playing it...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/18/2009
25 Random things about Eric...
I did this for facebook, but thought I'd post a link here. 25 Random things about Eric
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/15/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #6 – Fixing a mistake
After we’ve released our application, some of our users complained that they accidentally entered an...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/06/2009
Introduction to HealthVault Development #5 – Do I weigh too much?
A common question asked by people is “do I weigh too much”, so we’re going to add the calculation of...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/30/2009
The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form
A very nice collection of definitions, all done in limerick form. OEDILF
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/23/2009