by Bruce | Jan 6, 2009 | Development, Things that inspire me
I get regularly chided by some friends on Twitter and Facebook when my updates and messages seem to include things that are quite foreign to many people – and in reviewing a few of the more egregious posts, they are absolutely correct. So, to head off what will...
by Bruce | Dec 24, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
I’ve been hoping and watching for a great portable computer that would be ideal for students (and others) for many years – at least since we tested some PowerBook 100s with teachers in 1991 (only to have some returned to us as almost “unusable” – imagine giving...
by Bruce | Oct 28, 2008 | Development
Sure the AutoCompleteBox, Expander, TreeView, Charts, etc. from the new Silverlight Toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight ) are cool – and will make some Silverlight apps look even better. But the ImplicitStyleManager (and related Theme classes) will now...
by Bruce | Oct 22, 2008 | Development
Another “geek post”, sorry. We’ve been updating some of our MVC apps to the beta and were relying on the non-GAC implementation of MVC (i.e. we didn’t want to have to physically install the MVC .dlls on the shared dev and live servers – we’ll do this for RTW but not...
by Bruce | Sep 16, 2008 | Development, Things that inspire me
After a really busy summer I am making an effort to get back into a routine which includes posting about some interesting things going on personally, professionally, and otherwise. I thought a “soft-launch” back into it would be sharing one of my pet-peeves of...
by Bruce | Jul 7, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends
I am getting a chance to do something I’ve wanted to do for a while – that is, get paid to do some Silverlight development. That being said there is a lot to prove to our customer and ourselves that Silverlight is the right choice, and is at the right level of...
