TV Series have become popular in the last couple of years, because the production quality of some of these series are as good, if not better than some movies. Its interesting to see that more and more famous movie actors (off hand think of James Woods from the series Shark and Glenn Close from Damages) [...]
As I sit waiting for the Visual Studio Service Pack 1 ISO to finish downloading, I spent some time looking and reading about Silverlight and about C#. I have found one or two good websites, ones that I go to regularly to check for updated articles and source code. So three of my favourite Silverlight [...]
Continue reading about Waiting…to build some Silverlight applications
I am busy with a Silverlight video player at the moment, and what is interesting to note and understand is that Silverlight is heavily event-driven, as is ASP.NET and a lot of the .NET framework. You can attach event handlers to almost any object, from mouse event handlers to click event handlers. Having asked that [...]
I had a brief glimpse of the Google phone and I must say its not a pretty phone when compared to the iPhone. The other interesting thing to note is that the iPhone does not support Flash or Silverlight at this stage and that Microsoft will be looking at putting Silverlight on the Google phone. [...]
Microsoft own a share of Facebook, and whats interesting to note is that there is a Facebook Developer Toolkit available for the Express editions of C#, VB and Web Developer. Facebook is a truly open platform and framework. Is Facebook dead? Or will it continue growing? Who knows.
I would be the first to admit that not a lot of people have heard or know about Silverlight, which is Microsoft’s rich internet plugin, which is an alternative to Adobe’s Flash. It is true that Flash has been around for a long time and that Silverlight will not dislodge Flash’s entrenched following and use. [...]
Continue reading about Nobody seems to know about Silverlight, for now
I have come to really appreciate the quality of and the real possibilities that are associated with C# and object oriented programming, and I thought that maybe I could think of 3 reasons why it rocks. So here are my 3 reasons. Real-world object mapping: You can take real world objects and turn them into [...]
Continue reading about 3 Reasons why C# and Object Oriented Programming Rocks
Okay, so you have some time to kill or you are really bored, and you have an internet connection. What now? Well you could waste some really productive hours playing a few Flash games, and its interesting to note that not many Silverlight games exist yet, and I doubt they will ever exceed the number [...]
Continue reading about Top 5 Favourite Flash Games at the moment
The USS Theodore Roosevelt came to Cape Town and I went to Blouberg beach to go and check it out and I must say I couldn’t see much, but from what I read its quite amazing. I mean that carrier has more aircraft on it than the entire South African Airforce, which just shows the [...]
What seemed a little odd to me today was that SQL Server Express 2005 is download-able from two places. Both shows different file sizes. Another issues that needs clarity is ASP.NET and .NET framework versions. .NET 3.5 is an ‘extension’ of .NET 2.0 and replaces .NET 3.0. .NET 3.5 covers AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) [...]
