22 Jan
2010

NETDUG – Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting Presentation Sample Code

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If you attended the NETDUG user group meeting last night and would like to download the sample code for my Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting presentation, you can download it here. Recap: The Silverlight and WPF platforms are very similar, but they do not have binary compatibility; this means that an assembly compiled for one platform cannot execute […]

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22 Jan
2010

Open Source Silverlight video players

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Silverlight video space.  Both with writing the video chapter for my Silverlight 4 book as well as at work.  Creating a basic video player is straight forward (link 1 | link 2), have a button to play, a way to control the volume, a scrubber […]

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16 Jan
2010

Odd Behavior with ScaleTransform.CenterXY in SilverLight 3

Lately I’ve been working on an AI project, parts of which might get turned into a Boise Code Camp presentation, hopefully.  Rather than just debugging via Console.Write, I want to see what the AI is up to using one of those new-fangled Graphical User Interfaces that I’ve heard so much about, specifically via Silverlight.  A […]

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14 Jan
2010

Software Craftsman Cooperative Membership

Yesterday, I announced the formation of the the Software Craftsman Cooperative, a group of independent developers who have come together to publicly commit to each other and the professionalism of our craft. Frankly, the response to this announcement has been overwhelming. For everyone who sent email, tweets, or contacted the founding members of the cooperative, […]

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13 Jan
2010

The Software Craftsman Cooperative

I am honored and proud to announce the establishment of a new organization of software professionals, The Software Craftsman Cooperative (SCC). This organization is a cooperative of independent developers who either work for themselves or as members of a very small team, and embrace the principles and ideas of software craftsmanship. The Story The idea […]

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