WCF RIA Services Update bug? : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site

Another Silverlight Gotcha...ran into a lot of those today.
WCF RIA Services Update bug? : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site

Silverlight DataSet

Many an oldschool developer has been put off from joining the "RIA" world because data access through web services is a comparitive pain in the arse compared to old school ADO.Net. Some smart guys in Canada might be changing the equation (hopefully). I haven't used Laskarzhevsky Software's free Silverlight DataSet control yet, but it looks promising. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Laskarzhevsky Software Inc

TranslateThis Button: Copy+Paste translation for 52 languages

One push button translation. I like it.
TranslateThis Button: Copy+Paste translation for 52 languages

jSnow jQuery Plugin

Add some unobtrusive snow to your website for the hollidays.

jSnow

Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object - Deborah's Developer MindScape

Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object - Deborah's Developer MindScape

RIA and Silverlight Woes

Deploying your Silverlight and WCF RIA Services application

My XAP file is 5 Mb size, is that bad?

Keep Silverlight file sizes down!

My XAP file is 5 Mb size, is that bad?

dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library

Cool javascript graph library

dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library

Great Into Silverlight RIA Services Video

If you are developing with Silverlight and RIA Services, and you haven't seen this video, I would watch it. Two hours that are well worth it.


Currently Watching : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site

Kind of a Cool Star Wars Fan Remake

Enjoy

Star Wars: IMPS the Relentless from Darth Anonymous on Vimeo.

The crew has Chapter 2 up which is just as good if not better. For more go here-

http://impstherelentless.com/

WCF and Silverlight

We are experimenting around with WCF vs .Net RIA Services at work. Here is a pretty good entry level tutorial on getting started with WCF and Silverlight. One WCF method is exposed and consumed by a datagrid. Also so SQLtoLinq is used as well.

MSDN Switzerland Blog

CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination

CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination

CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination

Looks interesting, a new javascript framework/engine/api?

CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination

Photoshop Tip: CS3 and CS4 Get Rid of the Hide/Show All Menu Items

I was working with Photoshop and the stupid menu items kept hiding themselves. If you are a guru, and you know what you need, that is fine, but I'm not. I'd like to always see everything and see it in the same spot in the menu list. Someone named Chris Koerner came up with a fix that makes this go away.

Remove “Show all Menu Items” From Photoshop CS4 « Chris Koerner

Thanks Chris!

JavaScript - Find position

This is kind of a useful script for setting the window's scroll position to that of an object's in javascript.

function Scroll2Pos(cID) 
      {
        var obj = document.getElementById(cID);
        var curtop = 0;
        if (obj.offsetParent) 
        {
          do 
          {
            curtop += obj.offsetTop;
          } 
          while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
          window.scrollTo(0, curtop);
        }
      }

It is based on this.

JavaScript - Find position

Military Video System is Like YouTube With Artillery | Danger Room | Wired.com

This is pretty cool (and pretty deadly if you are our enemy). The youTube of surveillance videos for the military.

Military Video System is Like YouTube With Artillery | Danger Room | Wired.com

Unit Testing: When You Should and When You Shouldn't

Unit Testing and Test Driven Development are all the rage right now, and rightly so, especially for the type of work some of the developers I work with do (low level switch programming on telecommunication critical infrastructure). But there are often cases where TDD and Unit Test is, well, overkill.

This article provides a much needed balancing perspective-


http://blog.codeville.net/2009/11/04/selective-unit-testing-costs-and-benefits/

Hat Tip: Elijah Manor

Basic: RSS Feeds

If you are a developer you can skip this one. A lot of non-developers ask me about RSS feeds. They don't quiet get them. The following is a great into to what RSS feeds are, how to use them, and a brief PHP tutorial on how to create them.

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/feeds-101/

Military Technology: 30 Day Drone

This is pretty cool. A drone that can stay airborne for 30 days.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/30-days-no-landing-darpa-aims-for-drone-endurance-record/

UFO? Drone? Freak Natural Occurance

Ok, it has been AGES since I posted any strange UFO/Fortean type stuff here. In fact what little is here I'm migrating to another blog. But I can't resist this one. This is good stuff.

Link

Watch the embedded video. It will make you go...huh...