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It’s been three or four days of wierd, difficult to diagnose problems with Silverlight and topics related to it. The latest one involved Microsoft’s free Silverlight hosting service at Silverlight Live Streaming. It’s damned nice of MS to offer Silverlight developers up to 10 free gigs of storage and streaming support. In my case I [...]

I finally completed and deployed the Silverlight 2 game I have been working on for the last few days. I don’t think it will win any awards for game design, but it allowed me to explore a pretty wide swath of Microsoft’s second generation Flash competitor. I like the idea of Silverlight, for the simple [...]

I recently had to find the cause of a puzzling error in the Silverlight 2.0 game I am working on. The game uses Image controls to load pictures returned from Google image search. To load a picture I first create a new Uri object containing the address of the image, then use it to construct [...]

In the process of working on a game in Silverlight 2.0 I had a need to fetch some data from Google and manipulate it in C#. The premise of the game will be the subject of a future post. For now I want to talk about deserializing the json data returned by Google’s AJAX (RESTful) [...]

Everyone likes the AJAX client-server interaction model for websites. Using Asynchronous Javascript and XML the client browser can display a page and then issue requests for additional or updated data in the background. It’s very cool, and frameworks like Google Web Toolkit or AJAX extensions for ASP.NET have made it easier than ever to accomplish. [...]

This week I happened to read three pieces by three different authors, whose publication dates span almost twenty years of evolution in the software industry, and whose ideas fall on opposite ends of a vast continuum of thinking about software and how it is written. Or at least two of them do. The first is [...]