Come work with me!
At Moov2 we have a lot of really exciting projects on the go and in the pipeline. We’re expanding our skill-sets and opening up more and more new opportunities. Coupled with one of our developers taking sabbatical we have a couple of new positions available and are looking for some hyper-enthusiastic devs to join our [...]
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Learning Silverlight
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 [...]
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Optimal RIA development hardware
No 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 [...]
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The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or without debug information
Having 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 [...]
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Multiple Projects in one Solution in visual studio 2008
Okay, I vaguely remember having to do this in VS2005 as well as VS2008 and have no idea why this is the default behaviour. It seems obvious to me that it’s useful to have multiple projects (read class library projects) with a web project under one solution in Visual Studio. However, by default when you [...]
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Testing IIS in Parallels from OSX
If you’re running visual studio in Parallels you can set it up to deploy to a virtual directory in IIS then make that site accessible to OS X. This is great for when developing web services or remoting in .Net with Flex Builder in OS X. You can also assign an alias to your windows [...]
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New .Net Tutorial “Introduction to NHibernate”
I’ve just written a new tutorial on NHibernate (an Open Source OR Mapper for .Net). As ususal any feedback much appreciated.
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Silverlight Adventures – part 2
Continuing from my previous post on learning Silverlight (sorry for the VERY long delay i’ve been very busy lately)… 5 – The tools (cont) Okay so downloads required were as follows: Silverlight Runtime .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio Orcas Visual Web Developer 2008 – due to the massive download required i opted for the Express [...]
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Retro Web 2.0!
Just taking a look at the Visual Studio 2008 Express editions… Tacky Alert Not sure why but this takes me back to 1990′s under construction pages with a bit of web 2.0 reflection… tasty!
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VS 2008 and .net3.5 beta 2 released
Scott Guthrie just announced the next beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5, this is a big release and details some great new features. Check out his blog postd and give it a try. I have been playing with the beta1 and Silverlight and am thoroughly impressed see my findings here and i’ll be [...]
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