I’m writing a 4 part series on everything (I think) it’s worth knowing about styles. In the second part of the series (following the previous one Styles in Silverlight – an Introduction) I’m covering the following topics: Re-Using Styles for Different Types: the TargetType of the Style can be a parent type of the target [...]
I’m writing a (planned) 4 parts series on everything I think it’s worth knowing about styles in Silverlight. The first part is ready and it covers the following topics: What are Styles?Styles are basically list of property-value pairs. Defining a style consists declaring the TargetType property and the list of Setters. Defining Styles in XAMLDefining [...]
A month ago Kwwika, a real-time data streaming service provider annonced a competition to build a mash up that uses their World Cup 2010 Twitter streams. I’ve decided to enter the competition and visualize the stream of tweets in a fun and engaging way. As the competition closed on 11th July, my entry was selected [...]
I’ve created TweetForYourTeam just a week ago and have just added a major update with a couple of fun features. Cheer By a Single Click In the original version of TweetForYourTeam one was able to engage in cheering for or against a team by sending a tweet to Twitter. In the current update an easier [...]
The World Cup is on and there have been quite a few good Twitter mashups made for this event, probably the most popular being TweetBeat (and I’ve also developed one, Tweet For Your Team). In this post I’ll show how to build a simple service similar to TweetBeat using a publicly available real-time streaming service, [...]
This World Cup has been exciting for me not just because of the great games but also because during the group stages I’ve been building a cool real time spectator monitoring application for it: Tweet For Your Team (powered by Kwwika real time data services). What does it do? The application streams tweets live from [...]
