http://gregdoesit.com Do it to get it Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:33:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On yesterday's Scot Alt.NET meeting I held a presentation (An Introduction to Silverlight) that was aimed at providing an overview of Silverlight and looking at some of it's most important features. Thanks to the about 30 people who've attended and given feedback, I hope you've found it useful. For those ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/03/slides-and-code-for-the-presentation-an-introduction-to-silverlight/ Silverlight gives the developer the possibility of completely customizing the developed application in all aspects. Defining fonts used for displaying text is no exception. However there are multiple ways on how to go ahead with specifying fonts to use, this article attempts to summarize the options. In Silverlight, using fonts can ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/03/using-fonts-in-silverlight-evaluating-the-options/ Teamwork isn't an easy sport: the bigger the team the harder it gets. If the goals/milestones are set clear, one person will probably complete the project just fine. If it's a team of two they'll probably split up the work, track each other progress and finish in time. If its ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/02/workspace-alternatives-a-comprehensive-comparison/ I've entered the MIX 10K competition where the goal is to write an application using no more than 10KBytes of source code in Silverlight. I've decided to implement a cocktail selector application - strictly listing alcohol free cocktails only - using the web services I've previously built for a popular ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/02/my-mix-10k-entry-silvercooler/ As the holiday season is close I was looking for a way of sending a simple, yet nice animated Christmas card to friends. I wasn't looking for one of the many popular sites offering e-card sending, instead I wanted something I could somewhat customize, put on my server and send ... http://gregdoesit.com/2009/12/animated-christmas-card-using-jquery/ On the Scot ALT.NET meeting held on 4th November Robert Lewis gave a talk on BDD explaining the basics, motivations and demonstrating the .NET tools available to support this methodology. I found the talk to be really interesting, mostly because Robert was focusing on the practical side of BDD – ... http://gregdoesit.com/2009/11/behaviour-driven-development-for-net-developers/ I'm working on creating a zoom effect for a Silverlight Path object. This effect is easy to implement: I just have to apply a ScaleTransform and and a TranslateTransform within a TransformGroup for the Path (scale it up and move it on the screen where the user clicked to zoom). ... http://gregdoesit.com/2009/11/silverlight-bug-when-drawing-large-paths/ Recently I wanted to implement a very simple file upload component in Silverlight that uploads a single file and if possible shows upload progress. Having done some search I've found numerous examples but all of them seemed too complex for the simple task of uploading a file so I implemented ... http://gregdoesit.com/2009/10/file-upload-in-silverlight-a-simple-solution/ Sense/Net 6.0, the .NET Open Source Enterprise Content Management System has released its latest, Beta 4.3 version with Active Directory synchronization implemented. This is a small feature addon to the Beta4 version of the software, which among others implemented workspace support probably first in the open source .NET ECM world. ... http://gregdoesit.com/2009/09/open-source-ecm-implements-ad-synchronization/ Note: before reading this article please see my views on comparing ORM tools. In short: this comparison is not suitable for comparing NHibernate and Entity Framework, due to the complexity of the tools vs the simplicity of this test; treat this post accordingly. The reason I’m revising previous results is because ... http://gregdoesit.com/2009/08/nhibernate-vs-entity-framework-%e2%80%93-a-revised-performance-comparison/