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Monday, November 02, 2009 6:48 PM

NerdDinner hosted on Windows Azure and SQL Azure

I recently got my hands on a Windows Azure and SQL Azure token to try out a little cloud goodness. The challenge I set myself was to host an ASP.NET MVC application (including data) in the cloud. Hopefully just an hour or so of fiddling about, but as
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:03 PM

A bunch of Expression/Silverlight Links

I've got a bunch of 'ooh, that looks interesting' links in my reader from the past couple of months. So here they are: Expression Big list of example triggers, actions and behaviours for Blend 3 from Peter Blois An 'explode' behaviour (also from Peter)
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:20 PM

Glimmer – Interactive jQuery Designer

Cool – just saw that the availability of Glimmer has been announced. Glimmer is a WPF-based application designed to help with interactive scenarios for your web sites – think design-surface for jQuery. Probably handy in any case, but definitely handy
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:12 AM

Physics Helper for Silverlight, Blend and Farseer

Wow! Can’t believe I only just discovered this yesterday: a codeplex project for assisting with the creation of physics based objects . More info on Andy Beaulieu’s blog here and here . Top job!
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:27 PM

Tesco, the Cloud and IE8

No sooner have I finished banging on about IE8 than Tesco go ahead and release an accelerator to allow searching for groceries from IE . Cunningly, this accelerator takes advantage of the APIs that Tesco have released (some related posts there) and is
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:53 AM

Web Platform Installer 2.0

Apart from the variety of product and feature announcements made at Mix ( don’t forget you can download the sessions here ), the “one product to rule them all” is the Web PI 2.0 (I hope that the codename for this project was Magnum…) It’s about this time
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Friday, March 20, 2009 11:07 AM

Silverlight development for PHP with JCX Software

If you’re a PHP developer, then JCX Software have updated their VS.PHP plug-in (2.7 Beta) for Visual Studio to provide support for Silverlight 3. Sweet. You can read about it here. And don’t forget, as mentioned in my Mix Day 1 recap that there is now
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:14 PM

Mix Day 1 Recap

I had a bunch of stuff to do at the same time today – a variety of watching, listening, tweeting, responding, and editing for a recap event tomorrow. Sometimes 3 monitors is just not enough… There seemed to be so much awesome stuff to talk about. Here’s
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Monday, March 16, 2009 2:42 PM

WCF REST Starter Kit

Aaron at Pluralsight is all over this release of a starter kit for accessing REST APIs in an easier way. Essentially, it introduces a new class – HttpClient – that contains a bunch of methods suitable for talking to REST APIs. You can download the preview
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:14 PM

Mike Snow and Silverlight

I’ve probably mentioned Mike Snow’s Blog before, but I’m allowed to mention it again! If you’re developing Silverlight then you really should be reading his stuff – it’s “Tip of the Day” style and they’re all worth reading: Yesterday, I was excited about
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:14 AM

Googleman

Much as it pains me to mention the G word (Oh, get over yourself, I’m not that precious…) I thought this was pretty funny. If only all application launches and launchers could be as exciting. And with a gratuitous use of WPF, they can be! This is the
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:47 AM

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1

An exciting time for web development with .NET. In typical “epic blog post” style, ScottGu announces the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 . Stephen Walther follows up which a long list of learning resources. Talking of which, now that there is availability
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:00 PM

XAML Guidelines

Organising WPF projects is a black art, and when I’m coding some WPF (stop laughing) then I definitely spend quite a lot of time thinking about folder structure and fiddling around with the project files. You could argue that that’s a delaying tactic
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Monday, December 15, 2008 8:22 PM

Around the Blogs

I’m out of touch to the tune of a couple of hundred posts, so here’s a quick round-up of some interesting stuff: From the evangelists: @DeepFat has created a SQL Server Advent Calendar. Start here . I’m so out of touch with SQL. But this definitely helps.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:09 PM

Silverlight Toolkit – December 2008

Jeff Wilcox has the news on the latest release of the toolkit which includes a bunch of controls and themes. You can grab the toolkit from CodePlex .
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