tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16447805290591164122012-01-22T22:11:50.494-08:00Allan Waddell's ramblings on software development, .Net, Silverlight, Visual Studio, JavaScript..... and all that's geeky =)Allan Waddellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07565401368497914562noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644780529059116412.post-28210837577268634552008-07-21T21:10:00.001-07:002008-07-23T20:41:41.556-07:00

It's finally here. My new work LCD has arrived, a little later than I had hoped bit still welcome.It's a wide screen something or other, if that's a bit too techy I apologize. It's managed to arrive quicker than my mac. . . which I will need to have a good 'ol bitch about later. Anyway, back to work.

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Well in true nerd fashion I managed to get hold of a iPhone on the first day of sales in Aus. Thankfully not having to queue up since the previous afternoon, a wonderful friend was nice enough to put one aside for me. Thanks pal! This pic was taken on Saturday night using the iPhones 2mp camera. Not bad in the low light considering, I expected much worse. This is also my first blog post using the

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Just started using this VS theme called zenburn (VIM ripoff i think). Check it out if you dig the dark side. Coding Horror: Is your IDE Hot or Not?

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Interesting 5-part series covering the powerful new features in C# 3.0. Footheory: New Features in C# 3.0Make sure you check out Part 5: Lambda ExpressionsCheers

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July 27 2007: Microsoft decides... "Today is a good day. Today we endeavour to bring down ISP's globally.. ." =). Below is a subset of the release list for the 27th of July. (If you're a Gungan and develop on a Mac, there are additional links for you on Tim Sneath's blog)Silverlight 1.0 RCSilverlight 1.1 Alpha RefreshVisual Studio 2008 Orcas Beta 2ASP.NET Futures CTPSilverlight 1.0 SDK /

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Today I was asked of the differences between Expression Web and Visual Studio 2008. I took a guess at the direction Microsoft was heading with this product, in short, I compared it to Front Page, or a Dreamweaver in functionality... Thats a massive generalisation, but until Microsoft is paying me millions to say differently, im sticking to it.Someone who is/was getting paid millions by Microsoft

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Tim Sneath has a very nice walkthrough on creating basic ad overlays. To summarise, he demonstrates how to embed a video, and wire up an event handler to display an ad overlay when a user clicks the video. You can find his walkthrough here: More Fun with Silverlight Video: Ad OverlaysTim Heueur, using very similar methods, walks you through creating text based overlays that appear when a 'Marker'

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Ok, time to pay some bills. Open up my institutions web site, click login, enter my details.... now, they have this security feature where you need to type in the text 'exactly' as it appears.Now this text isn't clear text, no, it's a combination of uppercase, lowercase, wobbly, squiggly, sideways, downways, every which ways, multicoloured text. Funny because the keys on my keyboard all look so..

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I haven't got very long 2nite, so I need to keep this relatively brief...10:06pm - I recreate the first silverlight app I created..... except its no longer in a static html page, instead its embedded on the dev optusZOO portal as an optional module. I wonder if the exec producer will want to publish this one.....10:20pm - My lovely girlfriend arrives home, 2 gourmet pizzas in one hand, and a

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Check out this link if you need a laugh Penny-arcade crack me up.

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In ‘light’ of all this new technology that’s being released, and all the buzz words flying around, I thought I’d post some information that might help in getting setup to develop using Silverlight.If you would like to target Silverlight 1.1 Alpha you will need the following (This is also my current config):Microsoft Visual Studio codename "Orcas" Beta 1Microsoft Expression Blend 2 May

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