So, we’ve just released an update to Eye On Earth that adds in Birdseye support, the new style Bing Maps navigation controls, and also moves the system to the latest release of the Windows Azure SDK.  Check it out at http://www.eyeonearth.eu The new Bing Maps style navigation Viewing an air station...

Earlier this week we spotted we had a problem with a Silverlight application that has been live for a while.  We were only able to reproduce it with the Silverlight 4 runtime installed and not the Silverlight 3 runtime.  The reason is actually quite interesting from an academic point of view...

On a recent Silverlight project we had a requirement to be able to dynamically change the language of the site without refreshing the page. This ruled out the normal way of doing localisation using Resource files and meant we had to find away of binding text strings to a ‘Dynamic Resource’.  Given...

Most agile methodologies have some way of analysing past behaviour, recording it for future reference, and modifying that behaviour for the betterment of the team dynamic. SCRUM uses something called a ‘retrospective’. This takes the form of a meeting at the end of each sprint where the team write down...

Last November saw the release to web of the project I led for the 8 months previous. Eye On Earth is a portal to the masses of environmental data that the European Environment Agency collect. Initially launched in 2008 as ‘Water Watch’ our team have re-designed and re-architected the system to allow...