Category Archives: Community
It Takes A Programmer To Find The Source…
There are 100,000 stories in the little city, and this is one of them. Saturday. 1pm. “One Adam 12, One Adam 12, See the woman, complaining of foul odor, upstairs.” My partner, Charlie and I respond. Bad smell, but I … Continue reading
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PIN Numbers
When I was a kid, I collected brand names that were also generics (I’m all that’s left of a very bizarre childhood). Among my prizes were
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Nobody Tells Me Nothin’ – New Dollar Coins
I loved the two dollar bill. Similarly, being completely in sync with popular opinion, I love dollar coins. They are cheaper for the government, terrific for poker, and they are extraordinarily beautiful. In recent years, the government released the wonderful … Continue reading
Great SL Competency Test Part 2 (Answer)
The task: Create a custom button that has non-standard visual behavior when you hover over it, and when you click it but which otherwise acts exactly like a button. The idea was to be able to do this in under … Continue reading
Posted in Blend, Community, Patterns & Skills, Styles and Templates
Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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Yet Another Podcast
I am please, excited and terrified to announce that Yet Another Podcast will be launching on September 20, 2010. This is not your momma’s podcast. Here are my guiding principles: Do not waste the listener’s time This is not radio … Continue reading
Posted in Community, News, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
Tagged WindowsPhone, YapCast
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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 3
This is the third of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
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Tagged BestPractices, Competency, WindowsPhone
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Great SL Competency Test Part 1 (Answer)
On August 23rd I published part 1 of The Great Silverlight Competency Test. The key tasks were to… …write a Silverlight program mimicking a problem report system, that allows you to go to your db and call up a record … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Data, Essentials, Patterns & Skills
Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 2
This is the second of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
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Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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Tag-based Feeds
In this posting I will show how to create Feedburner feeds based on queries in Word Press using the Feedburner plugins.
Posted in Community, News, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices, Community, Mini-Tutorial, Tools
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Get Organized
I have ADD, (“oh look, something shiny!”) which means getting organized is a challenge, and making sure I can put my hands on any given piece of information a huge life-long effort, but technology has helped a lot, and after … Continue reading
The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me
http://WithReferenceTo.Me The application that we’ll be developing in the next phase of the HVP will allow the user to record and then look up everything that happened from day to day.
Posted in Community, HyperVideo Player, WindowsPhone
Tagged HVP, Open Source, WindowsPhone
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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – Part 1
This begins The Great Silverlight Competency Test – an entirely arbitrary set of a dozen challenges, each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour. Each of the … Continue reading
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