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  • All-time low: High, higher, highest

    Disclaimer: Do not try this at home. Really, don’t. Yesterday a new record was set by B.A.S.E. Jumping from the world’s largest building in Dubai. Now, read the previous sentence carefully again (and read the link to B.A.S.E. Jumping too if you don’t...
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  • Getting more out of VS2010 Beta 2

    A very interesting post on the new WPF and Silverlight designer (Cider) in Visual Studio 2010 . One of the things that stood out to me was this: “ The other piece of advice I would give you for Beta 2 is to make sure you’re running either Vista or Windows...
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  • TO!

    One of the things I run into regularly is naming objects, entities, classes, operations, parameters, variables, etc. I am fully aware that it is very important to get the name right because once chosen it will always be named like that in the back of...
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  • Trying to get a bank account…

    This article got me wondering in what way, if it’s the computer that is posing this limit, the limit has implemented. First, I don’t think that this is an actual business rule. Why allow 300 Li Juns and not 301? So this might be a ‘rule’ that has been...

  • Pretty Pictures on High DPI and the WPF/Silverlight promise

    Now that Microsoft tries to get us to use our displays to their full potential (read: maximum resolution), we as developers have to know how to write programs that are aware of different DPI settings. Most posts and articles I read about this show nice...

  • Light Up the Web

    Version 3 is here! Microsoft Silverlight 3

  • 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...

  • 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...
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