Lets face it, any one building LOB (line of business) applications know that their users love Microsoft Excel. If the users had their way, they would do everything in Excel. Due to this known fact, when building Silverlight LOB applications, there is often a need to flatten out an object for editing in a grid. [...]
Back in February, I wrote a blog post showing you how to, using Silverlight 4 OOB (out of browser) with elevated trust, access system devices; including how to use the SAPI.SpVoice API through the new Silverlight 4 COM Interop feature to implement text to speech. The biggest problem to that approach is that it will [...]
I have been doing Silverlight development since it was released. One question I get asked a lot is how do to create a custom pre-loader for my application. What do I mean by pre-loader? Well, it can be called many things; it could be called a pre-loader, splash screen, or a loading screen. No matter [...]
Gadgets, widgets, flash, ActiveX, Silverlight, json, xml
With all of the competing technologies for content embedding and resource sharing on the web it can be difficult to determine which options to use. Have you ever wished that you could embed YouTube videos and Flickr photos into your site just by knowing the consumer friendly URLi’s to [...]
Adam
I will never forget my first day at my first programming job. I was excited, eager, and happy to be there, feeling like I had finally made the big time. I thought, “I am going to get to be a real software developer,” and I was stoked beyond belief.
In the elevator on the way [...]
In my last post on MSpec, John Sonmez commented:
When I see the MSpec code, I think about it being an internal DSL for doing the testing, and I start to think that perhaps it should just go ahead and be it’s own language instead of trying to live inside of C#. On the other hand, [...]
I’m getting a session ready for Boise Code Camp 2010 on JQuery Validator. I thought it would be cool to hand out a cheat sheet – but I couldn’t find one. So here is rev. 1 of my Jquery Validator Cheat sheet.
Over the last few years, the practice of Test-Driven Design and Behavior-Driven Design has increased in acceptance, even if its practice has not increased in equal proportion. From my perspective, specification-based design is a natural way to develop software. Each developer has a preferred framework, and a framework they loathe. In the .NET world, there [...]
In my previous posts, I showed the syntax for context/specifications using Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for short) and how to use an auto mocking container in conjunction with this excellent Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework. For this post, I want to show you one of the nice features of MSpec called behaviors.
Suppose we have to create some [...]
I have initiated many changes throughout my career, I have for example lived and worked in Holland (duh I am Dutch, so yeah), Norway and Australia. I have worked as a consultant going to clients, and I have worked in-house doing product development. I have even been working as a responsible person for designing and [...]
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