XAML ListView that Stacks Items from the Bottom (for Messaging)

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If you're building a chat application UI using XAML and targeting a device with a touchscreen, there's an issue you'll likely run into; if the software keyboard is up, it scrolls some of your messages out of view. If there's only 1 or 2 messages in the whole conversation, you'll end up with them getting ...

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MIUI Theming Mania!

I made the mistake of having some free time on Sunday, so I got sidetracked putting the latest version of MIUI on my Droid X. I'll do a quick side note for anybody who wants it on there too: You'll need some files, so start downloading: The latest version of MIUI (1.9.23) or direct link Your Droid X should ...

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Hacked!

My apologies to anybody who got redirected to some spammy site after visiting here. I didn't discover that I'd been hacked until last week, and it took a while to track down. Anyway, I thought I'd write a bit about how they did it and what to watch out for. Symptoms I used to have open comments ...

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Soliloquy

Design of Information just get's more interesting! For our 3rd homework, we had to take Shakespeare's plays (XML-d by Jon Bosak) and display their data in some interesting way. I went with Android as it's the medium I'm most comfortable with. Soliloquy is the app's name and it was churned out in about 6 hours ...

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Journal #1: HW1

This is the first post in my blog-based journal for my CS 4364 capstone class at Virginia Tech. It is Design of Information, and we are being asked to write journal entries throughout the class relating to homeworks, projects, and just about anything else worth writing about. I may move it somewhere else later, but ...

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