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  • Do you play?

    A few years ago I advocated the addition of a Minister of IT to our government in a column. One of the main reasons for supporting this (or even being up for the position myself) is the apparent lack of thorough knowledge of information technology amongst...
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  • Silverlight, Windows Live Writer and WordPress

    Update! Please download version 2 It fixes some relative/absolute url problems. You might have been wondering why on earth I haven’t included any Silverlight demos in this blog. The reason is as simple as it is frustrating: the software that runs this...

  • Sampling

    Whenever you test it is vital that you pick correct test data. Suppose you need to verify that you implemented an Add method correctly and you test it by passing 2 and 2 to be added. There are many implementations that would respond with 4. Here are a...
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  • Browsers, 3D, Google and OpenGL

    Google published a new browser plug-in that implements the O3D standard . It is a very early version but the videos and the demos make its use and intent pretty clear. This implementation uses OpenGL. I expect to see Flash, Silverlight and OD3 competing...

  • Merger

    One of the key arguments in the battle between the .NET stack and the Java stack is the "one supplier" versus "multiple suppliers" argument. Now that Oracle is buying Sun I dug into the press releases and found this little gem in the...

  • Light!

    A while ago I attended a presentation and in the slideshow I noticed a picture with very interesting attributes. The background of the slide was pure white and the picture had a white background too so there was a perfect blending in of the image however...
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  • How experienced are you?

    Normally I do not like companies that create user interface controls because they: Make all applications look the same Invent stuff that should have been in the framework Don't think out of the box (and, to be honest, I simply envy them because it's...

  • Are you comfy?

      Reading an article like A Field Guide to Developers by Joel Spolsky makes me wonder: What part of this story is 'American' and what could/should be implemented right here, right now? If you answered the previous question with 'all of it is very...

  • Crocs in Code

      Today someone asked me why you should NOT do the following: Subclass and leave an inherited operation empty, not abstract but empty. Now, there are very good reasons to give but my wife told me a true story that I liked so much I decided to share...

  • Observe!

    I just noticed something new in the MSDN documentation about the ObservableCollection<T>: You can enumerate over any collection that implements the IEnumerable interface, and this is adequate for one-time data binding in Silverlight. However, to...

  • Do you Scrum?

    I have been reading about Scrum and if you know me even a little you will not be surprised by me giving you this link: Top 10 Pitfalls Using Scrum Methodology for Video Game Development A very interesting read (including the comments) and again I'd like...

  • Silverlight and the Mouse(Wheel) part II

    I wrote about Silverlight and the mouse(wheel) before and the responses are pretty good. One question that stuck to my brain and has been asked in forums is how to actually have controls like the ListBox respond to the MouseWheel event. First some code...
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  • Interfaces and compatibility

    Sticking to industry standard interfaces can safe your life... Last week I found out that an interface that I have been using for years and years might become more common than expected. For years manufactures created weak implementations that most of...
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  • Silverlight and the Mouse(Wheel)

    The requested feature is simple: I want full mouse support in Silverlight. I want to use the mouse wheel and the right mouse button. After reading numerous blog posts and coding several proofs of concept I found that it is no easy task to get there. ...

  • Design

    What is the first thing that you think of when you read or hear "Design"? UML Mondriaan Graphic Tablet Architecture Paint.Net Apple Money As a true da Vinci (lover of all arts and suffering from the same syndrome ) a strange mix of these enters...
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