This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight (this post) Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project It’s been a while since I dived into Silverlight and rolled my sleeves [...]
Continue readingA while back I took a training course on the then new Microsoft RIA toolset offerings. The platform then was definitely not what it is today and now I would consider the MS offering a very solid platform for building RIAs upon and is now pushing Adobe for new and faster innovation. As a developer [...]
Continue readingNo matter how much we spend on new hardware, progress bars, spinning timers, system freezes and occasionally crashes are a familiar site when developing RIAs. My Macbook Pro seems to be fast approaching the end of it’s life and I’ve started to think about a new machine. So I thought rather than spend forever looking [...]
Continue readingSo I was trying to get the latest files for a Flex project recently and I had an error about a missing stylesheet. I of course took the standard approach to fixing this and promptly bitched at the foolish developer who neglected to commit the crucial element… Alas turns out I was the fool and [...]
Continue readingI keep various workspaces in Flex Builder for things like client projects, tests, examples etc. Sometimes it’s a pain to have to restart FB just to check something from one workspace, so to be able to have two (or more) workspaces open at a time you can launch multiple instances of flex builder by doing [...]
Continue readingHaving received the following error in Visual Studio a few times I thought I’d post the solution here. I did have debug enabled and seemingly nothing i changed would stop the error. Many of the solutions found when first searching didn’t work, what I had to do was to delete all files from the following [...]
Continue readingI’m trying to setup a dev environment for an Intranet application we’re working on and needed to test users for displaying role-based content (namely admin edit buttons etc). So I needed to create some test users and roles. The site will ultimately be hosted on a Windows server and the users will use their domain [...]
Continue readingSo, I’ve been sucked in and caved. I now own a brand new 17″ 2.4ghz MacBook Pro. I’ve been getting familiar with it for a few days now, keeping my HP laptop for work whilst familiarising myself with the mac way of doing things out of hours. It’s been an odd experience, I finally understand [...]
Continue readingI’ve just written a new tutorial on NHibernate (an Open Source OR Mapper for .Net). As ususal any feedback much appreciated.
Continue readingTed Patrick just announced new Flex Builder 2 pricing, great news. But the skeptic in me had to check the UK pricing as we all know what happens. Well I’m happy to say the UK version appears to be in alignment with the US version! Flex Builder 2 for less than £150! I haven’t checked [...]
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