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Posted by on 27th February, 2008

Silverlight 1.0 Video Slidepuzzle

Silverlight 1.0 Video Slidepuzzle

I decided to take some time to learn Microsoft Silverlight. Since version 1.1 is still in Alpha and 2.0 is about to come out, I wanted to make sure I understood the technology, from the ground up and decided to stick with version 1.0. Version 1.0 works only with Javascript (JScript) while version 2.0 will work with any of the .NET languages. As usual, it started out with a small directionless project, just to try to get some experience under my belt; then I saw a cool video about a somewhat unrelated technology: Microsoft Surface. What a cool technology… they had a demo of a video playing that would divide itself in puzzle pieces. Ok, back to Silverlight, so I started reading about using a VideoBrush object, which allows you to “paint” a surface of a shape with raw video. That sounds exactly what I need to emulate the effect I saw in that Microsoft Surface video. So my small project morphed into a video slidepuzzle, just like we...

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Posted by on 14th February, 2008

Controlling spending…

Controlling spending…

I was thinking about ways of cutting unnecesary spending last night and thought that I tend to waste a few dollars on so many things that doesn’t seem so much at the time, but when it is all added up….well, it adds up. A cup of coffee in the morning, a snack bar in between, sometimes a pastry at midmorning, then lunch and maybe another coffee in the afternoon.  A couple of dollars at the time X a few times a day X twenty workdays = a lot of $$$. Think about it, even if it is just lunch at $8 per day for a to go salad or sandwhich is ($8 x 20days) $160 per month! A clever dude has some really good information on how to spend only $6.99 for an entire month on lunch; even if not followed exactly the same, his approach is very good and can be altered to fit your needs and definitively to keep your spending lower than it currently is. [button...

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Posted by on 10th February, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 hotfix

Visual Studio 2008 hotfix

Visual Studio 2008 had several issues in its first release of slowing down or even freezing temporarily when developing web applications, especially large ones. This hotfix addresses some of these issues. A readme file included in the download details every issue covered in this hotfix. For more details check out Scott Guthrie’s post on this release. [button link=”https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826&wa=wsignin1.0″ color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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