A final pre-release video on how you can call .net functions from within your chatbot. The idea behind this feature is to allow you to extend your chatbot with custom features. This will only be available in the pro version though. Note: the video is best viewed in max resolution and full screen to see [...]
Check out this first ‘AI’ feature that can be done using only 1 rule and, if needed, some thesaurus lookups. I’ve been having a huge smile on my face all day For the interested, here’s a screenshot of the rule that enables this trick (click to enlarge): The important bit is the :complete after the [...]
For a while now, I’ve been working fairly intensely with the designer and it’s many structured editors. Long enough for me to get a feeling for them and find a good rhythm in working with them. So I thought it perhaps time to put down my experiences and ideas for future improvements. To tell you [...]
An introduction on creating proper UI virtualization in WPF. It describes a technique to create treeviews in WPF that are able to display any amount of data while maintaining scroll speed and using a minimum of memory.
I just spent the last 3 days chasing down 3 deadlocks that were teaming up against me. Man, I hate deadlocks. They were definitely the biggest obstacles so far in the development process. Simply because their origins are so hard to locate. And that, even though they are always caused by the same type of [...]
I have been fighting the WPF model all the way during the development of NND. And it is wearing me down. Latest problem: the updated selection box for frame element filters doesn’t want to get focus, making it impossible to use the keyboard. I guess the new release will have to wait until I can [...]
Just a small mental burp, while this thesaurus is (still) loading. In case you are looking for a mental image to visualize this whole concept, try this: Resonance. When a link gets activated (for instance, the one to the very first neuron), it creates a resonance that triggers one or more other neurons. This excitation [...]
Note: Deprecated! This is the very first debugger I have written, and I am pretty proud about it! It’s not a masterpiece, but functional. The code definitely could use some tidying up and some speed tuning wouldn’t hurt at all, but you can trace bugs, inspect values and follow the program flow, and that’s already [...]