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Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Why are so many web pages not rendering correctly for me?
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6 months ago
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Lee Parrish
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With all the recent discussions about tracking users in the cellular market, it seemed a pretty strange coincidence that today I ran into a problem with my own attempts at privacy and cutting down tracking on the web. Though my situation...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
WP7 and Silverlight!
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over 2 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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Charlie Kindel blogged this evening some further information about the strategy of the new Windows Phone 7 Series platform and one item really caught my interest. He mentions that one of the components of the development platform will be...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Jerry Pournelle at PDC?
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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Okay, maybe I’m showing my age again, but being the “old dog” you have to expect I’ve been around a while. In the early days of computing (ala 1980s) I used to read Byte Magazine religiously, and one of my favorite articles was “Chaos Manor”, written...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Silverlight has been really good for me…
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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Silverlight has been really good for me, and not for any reason other than so far this year I’ve been able to pull off trips to Boston, Hawaii, and Australia to teach Silverlight training courses. Talk about some really nice places to visit. ...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Silverlight 3 RTW Install – Don’t forget to reboot for any Silverlight based Sidebar Gadgets
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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The other day I updated my system with the Silverlight 3 RTW SDK and everything seemed to go fine. Then today I decided to make a quick change to a Sidebar Gadget I’ve written that uses Silverlight. It was originally written for Silverlight...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
3:30 AM and I’m playing with Silverlight 3
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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It’s 3:30 AM and I’m up playing with Silverlight 3. Not that it’s very hard to do, I’m in Hawaii this week teaching a class, and the time difference is 5 hours from my normal Central Time zone, so it’s really 8:30 back home. So here I am up...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Not all travel is so bad…
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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I’ve spent many hours on airplanes over the nearly 8 years I’ve been a consultant. Much of that time was spent sitting on small commuter aircraft, which in general a pretty miserable experience. Not much can make a tiny seat in an aircraft...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Farewell to Dr. Dobbs…
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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I’ve been a subscriber to Dr. Dobbs Journal now for so long I can’t even remember when I started reading it. I’d guess that I started in the early 80’s sometime. Back then I also read Byte, Computer Language, and a few others. Over the...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
I also miss Anonymous Methods…
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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During my past few days of converting C# code over to VB.NET I’ve also found that I really miss Anonymous methods. Quite a few of the C# samples we had use them, and while it’s easy enough to correct, it’s a real pain to have to write an event handler...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Be careful with file paths in manually created Silverlight XAP files
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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I spent some time this morning trying to find what the problem was with a Silverlight 2 demo that dynamically loads XAP files. The version written in C# worked fine, but the version I had converted to VB.NET kept failing when calling Application...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
Fighting with VB.NET
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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One of the things I do as part of my job is teach courses on WPF and Silverlight 2. The courses were originally written using C#, but recently I’ve had a couple customers requests for the Silverlight 2 course in VB.NET so I’m re-writing the Silverlight...
Teaching the old dog new tricks...
So, what’s an “old dog”?
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over 3 years ago
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Lee Parrish
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I sometimes consider myself an “old dog” in this industry. I’m sure there are many more of us out there. Do you have any of these experiences in common? The first computer I owned was a Timex Sinclar ZX81 in 1982 while I lived in Monterey...
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