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WCF REST Starter Kit
Aaron at Pluralsight is all over this release of a starter kit for accessing REST APIs in an easier way. Essentially, it introduces a new class – HttpClient – that contains a bunch of methods suitable...
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Mix Day 1 Recap
I had a bunch of stuff to do at the same time today – a variety of watching, listening, tweeting, responding, and editing for a recap event tomorrow. Sometimes 3 monitors is just not enough… There...
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Silverlight development for PHP with JCX Software
If you’re a PHP developer, then JCX Software have updated their VS.PHP plug-in (2.7 Beta) for Visual Studio to provide support for Silverlight 3. Sweet. You can read about it here. And don’t forget, as...
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Web Platform Installer 2.0
Apart from the variety of product and feature announcements made at Mix ( don’t forget you can download the sessions here ), the “one product to rule them all” is the Web PI 2.0 (I hope that the...
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Tesco, the Cloud and IE8
No sooner have I finished banging on about IE8 than Tesco go ahead and release an accelerator to allow searching for groceries from IE . Cunningly, this accelerator takes advantage of the APIs that...
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Physics Helper for Silverlight, Blend and Farseer
Wow! Can’t believe I only just discovered this yesterday: a codeplex project for assisting with the creation of physics based objects . More info on Andy Beaulieu’s blog here and here . Top...
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Glimmer – Interactive jQuery Designer
Cool – just saw that the availability of Glimmer has been announced. Glimmer is a WPF-based application designed to help with interactive scenarios for your web sites – think design-surface for jQuery....
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A bunch of Expression/Silverlight Links
I've got a bunch of 'ooh, that looks interesting' links in my reader from the past couple of months. So here they are:ExpressionBig list of example triggers, actions and behaviours for Blend 3 from...
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NerdDinner hosted on Windows Azure and SQL Azure
I recently got my hands on a Windows Azure and SQL Azure token to try out a little cloud goodness. The challenge I set myself was to host an ASP.NET MVC application (including data) in the cloud....
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Infer.NET (and Monty Hall)
Staying on a gaming tip (sort of - was thinking AI), then I saw someone tweet about Infer.NET a couple of weeks ago (sorry, can't remember who)."Infer.NET is a framework for running Bayesian inference...
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Silverlight vFuture to support H.264 and AAC
Given I work in the media space, I should probably be among the first to blog about such things, but of course I never am. This is some of the big news for IBC . This is a pretty big deal though and...
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AllOfUs and their Microsoft Interactive Canvas
Much as I’m a big fan of working for big corps like Microsoft, I’m always envious of the environs of agencies such as AllOfUs . I first met these guys when I worked with Leslie from their team on some...
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StackOverflow
I love StackOverflow.com . I’ll never be able to contribute of course as I’m knowledge-impaired but it’s a simple and hopefully effective idea – and a twist on the micro-blogging meme. As a gamer, I...
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Combining IE8 Accelerators and Popfly
One of my favourite Popfly blocks is the “Whack-A-Mole” block for no other reason than because it’s fun and entirely pointless. JamesO suggested it might be a cool idea to combine a bit of Whack-A-Mole...
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National Rail Enquiries Concept
Mark B has also just finished some prototyping work recently but is also able to give some details on what he’s been up to here . I saw the applicaton just after it was finished and it was a smart,...
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Microsoft Web Platform Beta
There has been a little noise about the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) on a few blogs in the past week or so – not least from Hanselman and Phil Haack . I’m pleased to see the challenge of kitting out...
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Seadragon Subtlety
Wow – no, not the Seadragon Ajax stuff, but Stevecla’s coding skillz … ;) OK, so on first view I missed the incredibly cool part – this is a full AJAX implementation of DeepZoom that doesn’t rely on...
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Application Architecture Pocket Guides
From J.D. Meier’s blog , the Patterns & Practices team have released a bunch of pocket guides – smaller and more focussed – based on the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Here’s the initial list:...
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Oxite – Content Management System
This one caught me by surprise – pleasantly so though. Actually I saw it first on Mary-Jo Foley’s blog. From the site: Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content...
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Silverlight Toolkit – December 2008
Jeff Wilcox has the news on the latest release of the toolkit which includes a bunch of controls and themes. You can grab the toolkit from CodePlex ....(read more)
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