SharePoint. Also, anything else that runs on electrons.

I wanted to link to my Github repository, but as you may have noticed my personal links are all icons. Overplayed Web 2.0 or not, I like my 32 x 32 icons. A search of “Git Icons” did not bring up anything that I was in love with, so I made my own. I won’t say I’m particularly in love with these either, but I do “like” them. Right click the link below each image and click “save as”.

16×16

32×32

48×48

64×64

128×128

After I finished the icon, was talking to a co-worker to show them what was out there and searched for Github Icons instead, which is really what I was looking for all along, and the Cat/Squid is WAY cooler. You may not, however like the Cat-Squid chimaera, so please feel free to use mine.

I do a lot of graphical work (at least more than I though I would) but have yet to post any of it. I did this originally for poormansdataplan.com, although this isn’t the same one that’s out on the site now (since improved). Created using Inkscape, a terrific Vector Graphics program.

SharePoint 2010 will give you a “not implemented” error if you try to use Membership.GetUser() to get the currently logged in user via FBA. I’ve been using the following as a workaround. Inspired by The SharePoint Cowboy

  public static MembershipUser getUser()
        {
            //not passing in SPWeb because we need the current user.
            string username = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName;
            string[] arrTempString = username.Split('|');

            if (arrTempString.Length > 0)
            {
                //get the last string delimited by |
                username = arrTempString[arrTempString.Length - 1];
            }

            MembershipUserCollection collMembership = Membership.GetAllUsers();
            MembershipUser currentUser = null;
            foreach (MembershipUser user in collMembership)
            {
                if (user.UserName == username)
                {
                    currentUser = user;
                    break;
                }
            }
            return currentUser;
        }

Got textures working in iOS & OpenGL. I struggled with this one for a bit… I had all the code correctly but I neglected the importance of using texture images that are in THE POWER OF TWO. iOS will just not show the texture, the program won’t crash or anything (which I guess is nice). Anyways. that means that if you want to use a square image for example, it can’t be 119 x 119 pixels in resolution. You would want to make it 128 x 128. In my case, I used 512 x 512. In the video below I had two textures that I made in Inkscape, one just a circle with transparent background, the other a circle with some blurring and a darker circular line within it. Both were PNGs and 512 x 512. The texture that is shown after clicking is the same dimension as the other, but held up side-by-side the circle would appear smaller. The images themselves were white, the color is coming through the Quads, which if you look at my previous post you’d see are indeed colored (randomly).

Originally attempted to create an 2D array of GLFloats, but the pointers scared me off. Instead, created a Quad struct that has an array (12 vertices) that I feed into a Triangle strip. I can then make an array of Quads with a for loop and then iterate through THAT array later to draw them (and increment the RGB values too):