Thoughts, flamewars, utilities, tutorials, code, projects and other things by Bernhard Millauer.https://root-project.org/https://root-project.org/blog/first-post/https://root-project.org/blog/first-post/The blog is back. Fresh coat of paint, same Bernhard.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/bits/hello-world/https://root-project.org/bits/hello-world/The blog lives.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2014-07-29-experience-as-interviewer/https://root-project.org/blog/2014-07-29-experience-as-interviewer/Recently I did a lot of interviews for my developer team and I thought a summary might helps interviewers and/or candidates alike. Interviewer - Th...Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2014-07-09-ungit-on-cloud9/https://root-project.org/blog/2014-07-09-ungit-on-cloud9/- An account on [Cloud9][cloud9] (supports GitHub accounts) - A VM on [Cloud9][cloud9] - node.js on the VM - A git repository - Watching the [intro...Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2014-06-30-i-just-did-it/https://root-project.org/blog/2014-06-30-i-just-did-it/Usually I'm very keen to prepare myself for a project I create a project document in my Google Docs with a well thought name, a few lines of introd...Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2014-05-21-code-review-expectations/https://root-project.org/blog/2014-05-21-code-review-expectations/When I ask for a code review I sometimes ask myself if I took too long to build this piece of software and if the reviewer will suspect my work cap...Wed, 21 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2013-10-22-abandoning-3d/https://root-project.org/blog/2013-10-22-abandoning-3d/Working with 3D was always a dream of me so I started using it back in 2011. Since then I had great experience while discovering 3D, Blender3D and ...Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2013-10-21-moving-the-blog-again/https://root-project.org/blog/2013-10-21-moving-the-blog-again/Today I moved the Blog again. This time from Dreamhost.com to GitHub.com. Why? Well, three years ago I thought I will need a space to host my appli...Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2013-09-22-nitrous-io-box-with-cloud9-ide-editor/https://root-project.org/blog/2013-09-22-nitrous-io-box-with-cloud9-ide-editor/![][1] [Nitrous.IO][2] is a wonderful way to develop software in the cloud and I'm a participant from the first minute. The platform is still in BE...Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2013-04-09-git-using-repositoriesbranches-for-source-separation/https://root-project.org/blog/2013-04-09-git-using-repositoriesbranches-for-source-separation/![Git Logo][1] [Git][2] is a wonderful and easy way to manage your source code of any kind of project and using [GitHub][3] as the central is a sma...Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2013-01-16-why-you-shouldnt-use-entity-framework-with-transactions/https://root-project.org/blog/2013-01-16-why-you-shouldnt-use-entity-framework-with-transactions/This is a .net ORM Mapper Framework from Microsoft to help you talking with your Database in an object oriented manner. [Wikipedia][1] A database t...Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2012-10-04-free-open-source-sotware/https://root-project.org/blog/2012-10-04-free-open-source-sotware/Recently I watched [A tour through open source creative tools][1] from [Máirín Duffy Strode][2], Sr. Interaction Designer from Red Hat Inc. and I t...Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2012-08-13-wire-ape-wallpaper/https://root-project.org/blog/2012-08-13-wire-ape-wallpaper/Hi there, just created a Wallpaper, dedicated to the lovely Blender Ape Suzanne. Hope you like it! [![WireRendering][1]][2] [1]: /assets/WireRender...Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2012-07-26-wpf-localization-extension-v2-1-0/https://root-project.org/blog/2012-07-26-wpf-localization-extension-v2-1-0/![][1] The new version arrives and I have some highlights to point out: * First of all: ITS FREE (and will stay free) * Obtain stable results in * ...Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2012-04-30-unique-ball-wallpaper/https://root-project.org/blog/2012-04-30-unique-ball-wallpaper/Hi there, I’ve created a wallpaper in a couple of hours playing around with particles and cycles and that was the outcomming: [![Balls-Wallpaper-Cy...Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2012-04-04-wcf-webapi-json-dictionary/https://root-project.org/blog/2012-04-04-wcf-webapi-json-dictionary/Imagine you want to serialize a `Dictionary<string, string>` for wcf json output. The JSON output would look like this: ``` [ { Key: "key1", Value:...Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-10-13-automated-web-deployment-with-msbuild-and-msdeploy/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-10-13-automated-web-deployment-with-msbuild-and-msdeploy/If you are looking for an automated web deployment process you will inevitably come to MSBuild. There are many tutorials out [there][1] how to set ...Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-09-18-sunrise-mood-logo/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-09-18-sunrise-mood-logo/As i saw the advertisement from Pro7 for the "Comedy Dienstag" i want to reproduce this effect: [![pro7_comedy_dienstag][1]][1] This is my interpretation.Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-08-20-sculpt-brush-tips/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-08-20-sculpt-brush-tips/With Blender 2.59 we got a very new and stable version to play with. While exploring the new features i found two new functions! First - Import bru...Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-07-07-360-2d-tracking-with-rotobezier/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-07-07-360-2d-tracking-with-rotobezier/<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/25910107" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><...Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-06-08-360-camera/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-06-08-360-camera/I was looking for a 360 camera attachment and found one, but it is very expensive to ship outside from the US, so i decide to create my own… in ble...Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-05-20-hanging-objects-effect/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-05-20-hanging-objects-effect/![][1] _You can follow the full guide or skip the optional steps._ 1) _Open a new Scene, delete the default Cube and add Suzanne (Monkey)._ ![][2] ...Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-05-18-360-panorama-rendering/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-05-18-360-panorama-rendering/I was searching for a way to create a panorama shot but just found some wired information’s about PartX properties. Then i came to a post where it ...Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-05-02-a-dull-car-tire/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-05-02-a-dull-car-tire/I've done a new render, a car tire. I know, this is dull but i have to :) [](/assets/car-tire-1024x576.jpg) please critique it, i have to know the ...Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-04-06-determine-clickonce-updateuri-install-address/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-04-06-determine-clickonce-updateuri-install-address/Its hard to find Informations about the place where the UpdateUri is saved on a windows machine. The only information i was found is where the bina...Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-04-21-export-blender-models-to-shapeways/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-04-21-export-blender-models-to-shapeways/Here is the way how i get my model compatible for ShapeWays. Please check the FAQ and other pages on ShapeWays if you have questions that are not f...Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-03-31-binding-to-an-anonymous-type/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-03-31-binding-to-an-anonymous-type/Try to imagine that you have a list of complex classes and you just want to display just a bunch of properties. For example: ``` Person.Firstname, ...Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-03-07-pinart/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-03-07-pinart/Well, this is it! It was a bit tricky because i do not want to look at tutorials to do this PinArt toy and thus it makes me some headache. It can b...Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-02-28-feather-explosion/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-02-28-feather-explosion/My first render - how you like it?Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2011-02-26-changed-the-webhoster-dreamhost-com/https://root-project.org/blog/2011-02-26-changed-the-webhoster-dreamhost-com/Hey, i’ve stopped using webhostforasp.net because they are slow, has a bad and old customer panel and no extras like subdomains and so on AND, they...Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2010-11-24-neutralresourceslanguageattribute-is-evil/https://root-project.org/blog/2010-11-24-neutralresourceslanguageattribute-is-evil/Imagine this: Two Resource files named `Strings.resx` and `Strings.de.resx`. The first (neutral) contains english content, the second german conten...Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2010-11-23-evecert-the-new-evemon/https://root-project.org/blog/2010-11-23-evecert-the-new-evemon/Hello everyone, i am the Beta tester for EveCert, developed by Arthur Canal with RubyOnRails. Release is in almost three weeks and it will be a gor...Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2010-08-10-eveon-mta-eve-online-market-trade-analyzer/https://root-project.org/blog/2010-08-10-eveon-mta-eve-online-market-trade-analyzer/After some hard work, i managed to create a MsSql based Eve Online Market Trade Analyzer. EveOn.MTA is using the data export of eve-central.com (pl...Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2010-06-17-crash-course-in-hlsl/https://root-project.org/blog/2010-06-17-crash-course-in-hlsl/Can be found at: [http://www.catalinzima.com/?page_id=575][1] What does HLSL stand for? Why was it created? How does an HLSL effect file look like?...Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://root-project.org/blog/2010-06-07-microsoft-xna-game-studio-3-0-unleashed/https://root-project.org/blog/2010-06-07-microsoft-xna-game-studio-3-0-unleashed/#Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed This book is really good, it describes every code line and is perfect for every one who want to start with...Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT