Today for RECESS I looked into SignalR. The SignalR site (which currently is just the github repository) describes it as an “async signaling library for ASP.NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications.” What does this mean to you and me? This library allows you, in just a few lines of code, communicate in [...]
According to Wikipedia: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Furthermore: CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called [...]
The Problem In one of the latest projects I’ve been working on, I needed to be able to interchange data providers. We decided to use Prism and MEF to load up the concrete instance of our IDataProvider at runtime, and created a separate project to contain the XML based implementation of that provider. Since we [...]
Since I last rebuilt my development machine I haven’t had a need to even look at web development let alone Windows Azure. The last time I had “opportunity” to develop anything using Windows Azure was with version 1.3. At the time version 1.4 was still in beta and I couldn’t seem to successfully install it. [...]
Today for RECESS I was working on Informant. I need a single installer to lay down my Windows Service and WPF application. I’ve done this once before in VS2008, so I figured it wouldn’t be too hard to do in VS2010. I did not anticipate any breaking changes between the two versions however, in VS2010 [...]
I’ve been looking into what needs to be done in order to stream videos hosted in Microsoft Azure’s Blob storage with the HTML5 <video> control. Once I got over a few little hiccups, the process was very straight forward. The Process I followed the Video On The Web section of the online book Dive Into [...]
We have been working with the Kinect for a while now, writing various apps that let you manipulate the UI of a Windows app while standing a few feet away from the computer – the “10 foot interface” as they call it. Very cool stuff. These apps make use of the Microsoft Kinect for Windows [...]
This is just a quick guide for those on windows using Visual Studio and wanting to start tinkering with GIT. If you want to know why Git is better than (Insert source control management system here), click this link. Or, if you more in the mood to hear why every other source control system in [...]
Well, my PDC hangover is now by me and it’s time to reflect. There’s no doubt the PDC is my favorite MSFT conference. A big reason for that is that I mostly don’t have to work at this conference. I typically don’t do sessions because the MSFT folks mostly insist on doing their own sessions [...]
Introduction 5 days ~600 miles travelled in rental cars 6 flights 2 stressful technology presentations A handful of exciting and somewhat stressful wilderness and travel incidents A bit of stress on Kelly and the kids because of my 5 days away: mostly without cell or internet 5 famous rivers 3 states 2 National Parks Multiple [...]