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 who have missed out I’ll [...]
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 cocktail site, iCocktail.co.uk. ICocktail.co.uk was [...]
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 – that is how .NET developers [...]
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 a really lightweight solution. The [...]
As part of my thesis I measured the performance of some .NET ORM frameworks including NHibernate and Entity Framework. Measuring was done by implementing two simple applications using the same table structure and doing the same operations on the same data. Note: before reading this article please see my views on comparing ORM tools. Also [...]
When working with images I sooner or later usually run into the problem of creating thumbnails. Resampling images is not really difficult in the major programming languages however I have not found built-in support for caclulating thumbnail dimensions neither in .NET nor in PHP. And it seems that this made me re-invent the wheel over [...]
