In my last post, Modern Enterprise Applications, I started to look at what it takes to build a modern enterprise application. Technological advances have added complexities to building enterprise application. The expectations of enterprise users has changed. They expect to be able to use their mobile device to be more productive. They want to have... Continue Reading →
I seem to get this question a lot “I want to get started in Silverlight…Where do I begin?” A while back I put together an email to a friend with some resources that I have found helpful. The last couple of weeks I seem to have to go back to that email and forward it... Continue Reading →
I can write my application in classic ASP and satisfy all my requirements but do I really want to. There has been a lot of hype around Silverlight vs. HTML5. I started into the conversations with “The Future of Silverlight” from the Silverlight Team Blog and continued on to “Is Silverlight becoming a niche technology?”. ... Continue Reading →
UPDATED: I created another post that updates my approach for working with Silverlight Child Windows. So it has been a long time since I did a pure technical post. In fact I have completely blown my goals for the year. I am going to keep working towards them. My life has been hectic since the... Continue Reading →
So today (or yesterday as it is past midnight) was the first day of New England Give Camp. We met all the charities and the developers that are making their projects a reality. My team is building an application to deliver messages to the children at the hospital. These messages will appear as balloons that... Continue Reading →
So I haven’t done a good job blogging lately, in face I have pretty much blown my goals out of the water. I am hoping that will change in the near future (more on that in a later post). This weekend is the New England Give Camp and I decided to blog about my experience. ... Continue Reading →
So it has been a while since I have posted and I am not doing so hot on my goals for the year. Work has kept me pretty busy an I have not had time to play but when I heard about Windows Phone 7 Series from Microsoft I had to make time to talk... Continue Reading →
Well, it is the last day of 2009 and I am posting my last coding post of the year. Nothing like waiting until the last day of the year to complete my goal of three substantial coding post before the end of the year. In the coming days I will be putting a post together... Continue Reading →
This is the second substantial coding post to reach my goal of three by the end of the year. In this post I will demonstrate the new string formatting functionality in Silverlight 4 data binding. There have been a lot of new functionality in data binding. The string formatting functionality will help save time and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I attended a lunchtime session on the new Bing Maps Silverlight Control. I went to this session for fun. It was pretty cool, even if I won’t get a chance to use it anytime soon. There is a lot of functionality out of the box. The biggest piece of functionality is the Deep Zoom.... Continue Reading →
