Microsoft announced that the the new friendly name for WPF/E is Silverlight. Thank goodness, that was a mouthful. Microsoft Silverlight is not to be confused with the Silverlight Witch Coven of North Carolina, Terry Silverlight, the drummer so bold as to have released 2 solo albums of all-drum-all-the-time, or the Silverlight Dog Kennel of Romania. The […]
Read MoreScenario 1 The Scrum team is ending a 3 week iteration developing a custom CRM for your company. Despite the fact that no one should be writing yet another CRM, the team is excited to show the shiny new forms in Sprint Review. The one developer who can be cajoled into speaking opens the application and the AJAX-enabled […]
Read MoreIt is interesting to note the volunteer opportunities available to people with I.T. related skills. That such opportunities exist speaks to the ubiquity of computers and software in our daily lives. Computing has become so normalized as to be considered a necessity for economic growth, job searching, educational opportunity, and other services. Here are some local volunteer opportunities in […]
Read MoreA friend and colleague of mine has a favorite interview code problem that I think is pretty fun, too. I think it is simpler than FizzBuzz, but is reasonably effective at prompting discussion. The problem is quite simply, “Please go the whiteboard and reverse a string.” I love the ambiguity of that problem. Do you I get the string in a […]
Read MoreDarn, darn, darn. I have been meaning to go to the website and sign up for MIX ’07 for a week. I finally sat down with a credit card and 10 spare minutes last night and found event registration to be down. I just went to check again to see if the registration would be back up and I learned […]
Read MoreNot that Vista is slow, far from it, IMO. Even so, here is a great article on tweaking your Vista machine to make it run a bit faster than it does out of the box. What I like about the article is that I could send it to my mom and she could understand most […]
Read MoreComment spam is a PITA (look it up) for most bloggers. I have tried several solutions to comment spam with varying degrees of success and have most recently tried to simply moderate all comments. This is far too time consuming to actually continue, so I looked again for a solution to the problem. I have been […]
Read MoreWPF/E is Microsoft’s newly introduced technology meant to compete with Adobe’s Flash . The community preview for WPF/E was released in February. In a bold statement, Microsoft released plugins for IE6, IE7, FireFox, and Macintosh’s Safari. Is this yet another latecomer technology offering that won’t quite catch on? I don’t think so. When marketing or business people seek out software developers […]
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