Author's Blogs
Posted Février 5th 20130
A couple of days ago I talked about my experiences with a geolocation driver bug that was not presenting a heading to the Geolocation sensor, and how to account for this problem in your app by calculating the value yourself. Today, I want to talk ...
Posted Janvier 31st 20131
I've been evaluating the location sensors in a number of Windows 8 tablet and ultrabook systems recently, and as you might expect I have come across the occasional buggy driver. Sometimes the bugs are severe enough that the location sensor doesn't function reliably or even function at all, but I ...
Posted Décembre 17th 20120
This is a three-part series on adding a GPS to your non-GPS-enabled system using GPSDirect from TurboIRC.COM Software & Research. ...
Posted Décembre 13th 20123
In an earlier blog post titled "Develop location-aware, Metro style apps when your development system doesn’t have GPS", one option I presented for those wishing to develop high-precision location-based Windows Store apps is to hook up an ...
Posted Décembre 10th 20120
Recently one of my colleagues interviewed me in a short video segment on the geolocation sensor in Windows 8, and one of the questions I was asked was whether ...
Posted Novembre 30th 20120
Earlier this week I wrote about how to calculate the distance between two points in a location-aware app. Today, I am going to discuss a related topic: how to calculate the bearing between two points.
Like the shortest-distance problem, the ...
Posted Novembre 25th 20121
If you are developing a location-aware application, you may reach a point where you need to know the distance between two geographic locations, such as the user's current position and some destination point like a city, airport, or attraction. The Location API in Windows 8 and the LocationManager ...
Posted Novembre 17th 20120
Intel recently announced the addition of the RDSEED instruction to the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures. An addition to Intel® Secure Key, this new instruction will appear in future generations of Intel processors.
Like RDRAND the RDSEED instruction returns random numbers, and with two ...
Posted Octobre 4th 20120
The WinRT environment provides the application developer with access to the user's location via the location sensor. The location API is described in detail in my blog post, " ...