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About a year ago I started work on a set of Silverlight libraries providing controls and classes that implement the primary features of a drawing application. Some of the results of that effort made their way into demos on this site, i.e. the ColorTools and GradientMaker demos. Eventually I also posted a partially complete demo [...]

Ok, I admit I have been in the middle of a really unproductive cycle for the last couple of weeks. I’m not talking about work. I’m talking about the other 50% of my life, or more specifically the 50% of that 50% that is available for liesure, and which for some strange reason I can’t [...]

Given the title and what I often write about here, you might think this post is about either losing one’s way, or becoming hopelessly mired in the documentation for some arcane class library. It’s about neither of those things, nor is it concerned with any other variation on the theme of not knowing where you are. [...]

Over the last couple of days I was working on a system that generates HTML emails. The email content is created by loading and rendering ascx controls that perform the value substitutions into a template, and comments had been included in the templates describing what data items each email required. This morning I realized that [...]