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Designer v Xaml v Code
This is the second in my new series on Getting Started With Silverlight (please see the first article for information on the series and where to get the software you need). [updated11/8] Don’t Start with Xaml… Until recently, just about … Continue reading
Silverlight From Zero
This is the first of a series of blog posts directed at folks who are new to Silverlight and/or want to brush up on the fundamentals. It will consist of mini-tutorials on topics I think need more coverage, and links … Continue reading
Silverlight Synchronicity
At Mix ‘07 I watched Scott Guthrie’s keynote introduction of Silverlight, and it was a watershed moment in my career. Within 48 hours I had pivoted my consulting business to focus entirely on this new and game-changing technology; a few … Continue reading
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Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility
The Closed Captioning For Silverlight Media page at T2Sami.com says in its commentary: A number of very sophisticated Silverlight Video players are under development: some open source, some proprietary…. The commitment to captioning in Silverlight is not so … Continue reading
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Expectations Are Everything
Quick Bit Anyone who has ever debugged a program knows that you tend to see what you expect. I’ve learned that lesson a dozen times, in a dozen ways. A classic example is to ask someone to read the following … Continue reading
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Building A Product For Real
As some of you know; I’ve been showing a number of Silverlight features in terms of Project Turing. It was never my intention to finish that project; rather to use it as a mooring point to ensure that the mini-tutorials … Continue reading
Time To Update My Favorites
Periodically I take a shot at listing my favorites: some folks find useful items they hadn’t looked at and it forces me to take a long hard look at whether it is time to try something new. Today: Favorite Utilities … Continue reading
Bayesian Probability
Spent the early hours of this morning reading a great blog post by Jeff Atwood which makes reference to a Elizer S. Yudkowsky’s Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Probability. The timing was good as I had just finished the (highly … Continue reading
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Review: Microsoft Web Cam (QB)
My boss sent me a Microsoft High Def Web Cam, (we do a lot of teleconferencing). I admit to being somewhat skeptical initially; I had a web camera, seemed to work fine. This new camera blew me out of my … Continue reading
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What Makes A How-Do-I Video Great ?
I have been thinking a lot about how differently each of us (inside and out of Microsoft) approaches creating How-Do-I videos. Let’s start by agreeing that no one instructor will please everyone, and the best way to create truly excellent … Continue reading
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Mini-Review of Code Rush
These days I’m very much in the market for anything will cut down on manual typing. Thus I’m dictating more of what I write (using speech recognition), and today I began to explore CodeRush: a highly extensible Visual Studio plug-in … Continue reading
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Silverlight and Sunday night football
My fascination with Silverlight Is not strongly determined by the video aspects, though they can be the most immediately compelling. That said, it is certainly an indicator of the impacted Silverlight is having, that Silverlight was chosen for the online … Continue reading
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