Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2010 -- #996 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Martin Krüger(-2-), Beth Massi, Karl Shifflett, Joe McBride, Ryan Alford, Mike Taulty, Kunal Chowdhury, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to: Create a ... Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2010 -- #996 0 0 0
Why Microsoft Tablet failed while iPad succeeds iamjames, January 1, 0001 Please buy XP Tablet edition - Steve Balmer, 2002 Recently there was a story on PC world explaining why tablet computing hasn't been successful with businesses despite the fact that hospitals, the sales ... Why Microsoft Tablet failed while iPad succeeds 0 0 1
Windows Phone 7 Support - Early Preview Dirk Eisenberg, January 1, 0001 Windows Phone 7 will be the 3rd important smartphone platform on the market (in my personal opinion) and one goal of SharpBox was and is to support the big three, so the library has to be adapt for the ... Windows Phone 7 Support - Early Preview 0 0 0
How to set Favicon for SharePoint 2010 site? venkatx5, January 1, 0001 What is Favicon? Sometimes we come across some websites which shows their logo instead of explorer logo in Address bar. A typical example is Google, login to google with IE and watch address bar. You can ... How to set Favicon for SharePoint 2010 site? 0 0 6
Virtual Brown Bag Recap: Rhino Mocks, Hg-Git Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 At this week's Virtual Brown Bag meeting: Claudio alerted us to his blog post "You Have Been Deleted!", expounding on our DDD/CQRS discussion from a couple of weeks ago Mark talked about / demoed Rhino ... Virtual Brown Bag Recap: Rhino Mocks, Hg-Git 0 0 1
CouchDB - Replication Test - between CouchDB servers on Android 2... Manish Agrawal, January 1, 0001 Step 1: Download CouchDB on your Android phone from Android Market Place: info available at: http://www.couchone.com/and... Step 2: Download CouchDB on your Windows machine info available at: http://www.couchone.com/get... ... CouchDB - Replication Test - between CouchDB servers on Android 2... 0 0 1
Switching between Activities (screens...) in Android Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 This tutorial will show how to quickly create an Activity, and switch to another Activity using a ListView or a page full of buttons. .Net folks can think of an Activity as a concept similar to a Form ... Switching between Activities (screens...) in Android 0 0 31
Creating a new Android Project in Eclipse Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 What do the various fields on the New Android Project window in Eclipse mean? Project name: The name of the folder where your project will be created. Build Target: You want to choose as low of a version ... Creating a new Android Project in Eclipse 0 0 2
Windows Phone 7 Startup Camp Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 I have mentioned before that I own an Android phone. But I can drive a car and still be interested in motor bikes – and so it was that I spend my weekend at the Brisbane Windows Phone 7 Startup Camp. The ... Windows Phone 7 Startup Camp 0 0 0
ASP.NET Ajax will not be left behind the HTML5 rush Webgui, January 1, 0001 It takes a short overview of Microsoft development tools and platforms evolvement in order to demonstrate the importance of supporting Web Forms development for ASP.NET Ajax with HTML5 enhancements. In ... ASP.NET Ajax will not be left behind the HTML5 rush 0 0 1
Virtual Brown Bag Recap: 42goals, Evernote, MVVM, More Cuke Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 At today's Virtual Brown Bag meeting: Claudio introduced us to goal-tracking site 42goals.com …and shared tips for getting started with Evernote We talked about MVVM 101 JB continued his discussion of ... Virtual Brown Bag Recap: 42goals, Evernote, MVVM, More Cuke 0 0 0
Virtual Brown Bag: DDD/CQRS Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 At this week's Virtual Brown Bag meeting, Claudio Lassala started out by pointing us to a post on his blog expanding on last week's Liskov Substitution Principle discussion, then talked about two useful ... Virtual Brown Bag: DDD/CQRS 0 0 0
DEMUX with Netduino Joaquin Jares, January 1, 0001 In my previous post I used a lot of transistors (not very successfully, I might add) to drive 4 LEDs with 2 digital GPIO pins from a Netduino. I mentioned that there are Integrated Circuits (ICs) that ... DEMUX with Netduino 0 0 0
Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Min... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 If you build Silverlight Applications, chances are you have seen this screen before. I’m talking about the default “To view this content, please install…” Screen shown below. The Default Installation Screen. ... Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Min... 0 0 3
Book Review | The C# Programming Language, Fourth Edition | Addis... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 The C# Programming Language, Fourth Edition by Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde Publisher: Addison Wesley (Special Annotated Edition for C# 4.0) I can honestly say I have ... Book Review | The C# Programming Language, Fourth Edition | Addis... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2010 -- #984 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: René Schulte, Walter Ferrari, Amyo Kabir, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty, Erik Mork, Jeremy Likness, and Joost van Schaik. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Swapping two elements in ... Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2010 -- #984 0 0 0
Two giants are fighting and the third might win, Visual WebGui mi... Webgui, January 1, 0001 Latest announcements by Microsoft executives leave no doubt. Microsoft is shifting its support to HTML 5 and by doing so gives up on its RIA platform Silverlight which it repurposes for mobile. Adobe releases ... Two giants are fighting and the third might win, Visual WebGui mi... 0 0 0
My position on the #Silverlight debate Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Latest update (and hopefully last update): Microsoft has published a few posts to clarify the debate. Please consider the following: PDC and Silverlight by Bob Muglia PDC Thoughts by Steve Ballmer *NEW* ... My position on the #Silverlight debate 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for October 30, 2010 -- #981 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Crump, XAMLCast, Sigurd Snørteland, Brad Tutterow(-2-), Manuel Felício(-2-), Mohamed Mosallem, Lee(-2-), Walt Ritscher, Chris Koenig, and Jeff Blankenburg. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for October 30, 2010 -- #981 0 0 0
Personalized URLs through Bit.Ly lavanyadeepak, January 1, 0001 We have a lot of URL shorteners like Goo.Gl and Bit.Ly. Though each of the URL shorteners give a straight forward URL shortening right from their homepages without even in need to create an account it ... Personalized URLs through Bit.Ly 0 0 0
Virtual Brown Bag: Rails Rumble, SOLID, Cucumber Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 Recapping the most recent Virtual Brown Bag meetings: 10/21: Rails Rumble: George Mauer talked about his team's participation in the Rumble, and talked about jsFiddle and Google Chrome developer tools ... Virtual Brown Bag: Rails Rumble, SOLID, Cucumber 0 0 1
Windows Azure’s 3.0 Maturity in a 2.0 Release andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 I didn’t go to the Microsoft’s PDC Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) this year because it was, as far as I could tell, a made-for-streaming video event. As such, I watched the keynote about 24 ... Windows Azure’s 3.0 Maturity in a 2.0 Release 0 0 0
Google OS - Hah xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 Check this out: http://www.foxnews.com/scit... What the heck are the google nuts thinking? Trust all my files and apps to them? nope. What ... Google OS - Hah 0 0 1
How to Host your Silverlight application on Amazon S3 for Free mbcrump, January 1, 0001 In the past people could use services like the Microsoft Silverlight Streaming to host their Silverlight applications for free. This worked well in the past but it is now closed. What are the other alternatives? ... How to Host your Silverlight application on Amazon S3 for Free 0 0 3
HTC Desire vs HTC Wildfire Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 I had a HTC Desire for nearly six months. Sadly, about a week ago, it passed away. The desire was my first smart phone and I think it’s true what they say; the first love is the deepest. The desire was ... HTC Desire vs HTC Wildfire 0 0 2
Quick PowerShell “Todo” Gmail Emailer Lance Robinson, January 1, 0001 I put the following function in my PowerShell profile so that I can just bring up my PowerShell console and type myself a quick “todo” note that automatically gets emailed to me for later. There are several ... Quick PowerShell “Todo” Gmail Emailer 0 0 4
15 Things I’ve discovered about Silverlight. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I love Silverlight and have written / talked about it a lot. I can’t help but notice that a lot of people are new to Silverlight or may have played with it a few times. Well this post is for you. It is ... 15 Things I’ve discovered about Silverlight. 0 0 8
Why I Am No Longer Afraid of JavaScript Development David Williams, January 1, 0001 Before working with MVC, I would claim to be somewhat intimidated by JavaScript development. Not that I did not know how to use it, however I found that is was much more bug prone and harder to develop ... Why I Am No Longer Afraid of JavaScript Development 0 0 0
Internet Video, Advertising & Marketing Bill Evjen, January 1, 0001 The Next Generation of Consumer Reach These are my notes from the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, CA. SPEAKERS: Kristine Shine – VP PopSugar Media Jon Goldman – CEO Qlipso Joy Marcus – US ... Internet Video, Advertising & Marketing 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for October 19, 2010 -- #972 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Walter Ferrari, Wei-Meng Lee, Rob Eisenberg, Timmy Kokke, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, Jeff Blankenburg, Jeremy Likness, and Victor Gaudioso(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight (and Sharepoint): ... Silverlight Cream for October 19, 2010 -- #972 0 0 0
St. Louis ALT.NET Meetup - Wednesday, October 20 Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 The first-ever meeting of the St. Louis ALT.NET group will be held Wednesday night at 7PM at the offices of Professional Employment Group at 999 Executive Parkway (Suite 100) in Creve Coeur (South of Olive ... St. Louis ALT.NET Meetup - Wednesday, October 20 0 0 1
How Technology, Content, and Services Establish the Next Level of... Bill Evjen, January 1, 0001 My notes from a session at Digital Hollywood in Santa Monica. SPEAKERS: John Penny – EVP Strategy and Business Development at Starz Entertainment Curt Marvis – President of Digital Media at Lionsgate John ... How Technology, Content, and Services Establish the Next Level of... 0 0 0
Why Server-Side JavaScript? Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Chris Nicola left this excellent comment on Justin Etheredge’s blog: Even with a competitive way to do SSJS [(server-side JavaScript)] on the Windows platform, I just have to ask... why would anyone? Server-side ... Why Server-Side JavaScript? 0 0 8
It All Started with a Single User Group MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; ... It All Started with a Single User Group 0 0 1
Advertising Accountability Bill Evjen, January 1, 0001 Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, Broadband and Mobile My notes from this session at Digital Hollywood. Speakers: William Lederer – CEO Kantar Video Eric Forst – Head of West Coast Business ... Advertising Accountability 0 0 0
Merging Content with New Technologies Bill Evjen, January 1, 0001 Content Reinvention with the Next Generation of Tables, eReaders, and Mobile Devices My notes from this session at Digital Hollywood: Speakers: Sarah Lumbard – Sr. Director, Product Strategy and Development ... Merging Content with New Technologies 0 0 0
Phone and Tablet Apps as the Next Platform Bill Evjen, January 1, 0001 Communication, Games and Commerce in Mobile, Social Media, Broadband & Music Another session at the Digital Hollywood conference. Here are my notes from the session. Speakers: Stephanie Bohn – VP Marketing ... Phone and Tablet Apps as the Next Platform 0 0 0
Virtual Brown Bag: MV Envy, Exceptional Sass Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 This week's Virtual Brown Bag topics: Houston TechFest Recap - You can download slides from Claudio, JB & George's presentations MV Envy: What are these MVx patterns all about? What are the differences ... Virtual Brown Bag: MV Envy, Exceptional Sass 0 0 0
Oz Alt.Net Coding Challenge Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Michael Minutillo posted the texas hold ‘em coding challenge to the oz alt.net mailing list. The challenge is to write a program that can take poker cards as input and return information about what hands ... Oz Alt.Net Coding Challenge 0 0 0
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework New Samples Updated on 2010-1... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is updated on 2010-10-10. Download address: http://1code.codeplex.com/r... If it’s the first time that you hear about Microsoft All-In-One ... Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework New Samples Updated on 2010-1... 0 0 0
Linking Shopify Products Together With Naming Conventions (and a ... Jesse, January 1, 0001 As I mentioned in my last post I talked some about how my side project, PiX Eyewear, has given me an opportunity to venture out of the predominantly server-side .NET programming that I’ve been doing at ... Linking Shopify Products Together With Naming Conventions (and a ... 0 0 0
Hitchhikers Guide to Houston Techfest 2010 Mohammad Azam, January 1, 0001 Where do you find 800+ technology geeks talking in binary? Yes you are right Houston Techfest 2010. I was fortunate enough to attend the Houston Techfest 2010 hosted at University of Houston on October ... Hitchhikers Guide to Houston Techfest 2010 0 0 1
Windows Phone 7 Launch – Thoughts and Canadian Availability D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Just finished watching the Windows Phone 7 launch event that streamed live from NYC this morning. Was a great event that really set the stage for the platforms launch next month. My general thoughts are ... Windows Phone 7 Launch – Thoughts and Canadian Availability 0 0 2
Adventures with Windows Phone 7 – The Marketplace D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 With the upcoming announcements around Windows Phone 7, I thought now would be a good time to dive into the platform and see what its all about. For those thinking that writing apps for the WP7 platform ... Adventures with Windows Phone 7 – The Marketplace 0 0 1
Twin Cities Code Camp Axum Code Samples Posted Jeff Ferguson, January 1, 0001 Thank you to all who attended my “A First Look At Axum” presentation during Twin Cities Code Camp 9! I have zipped up the Axum code samples that I presented and have made it available online; you can download ... Twin Cities Code Camp Axum Code Samples Posted 0 0 0
Playing with Netduino Joaquin Jares, January 1, 0001 I received (by chance, mostly) a Netduino last tuesday. Netduino is an open-source hardware project based on Arduino and the .Net Micro Framework. And it’s extremely cool. I’m a C# developer and I was ... Playing with Netduino 0 0 6
Virtual Brown Bag: Readable Web, Advanced LINQ Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 There was a bonus second Virtual Brown Bag meeting this week - The boys from Texas had a lunch meeting at the Houston TechFest, and shared it via LiveMeeting. This week's topics: Tools for "a more readable ... Virtual Brown Bag: Readable Web, Advanced LINQ 0 0 0
Automate Your Backup and Restore Tasks Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 I was looking for a simple way to schedule a job to perform a nightly backup of the production system and restore it to a dev system. I know there are many ways of achieving my goal and I am sure my solution ... Automate Your Backup and Restore Tasks 0 0 1
Build Process Overview Carlos Santos, January 1, 0001 In this post I'll begin to talk about getting a build process up and going. I'll cover at a high level a build process that I think works for small to medium size teams, talking about some steps you might ... Build Process Overview 0 0 0
The Evolution of Package Management for .NET Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 The thing to realize is that the destination is never the most important part of the journey. It’s the journey itself. When you start a journey, you are never fully sure where it is going to end up. We ... The Evolution of Package Management for .NET 0 0 0