August 2008 - Posts

I maded you a FractLOL…

… and then I Silverlit it! Is alternately a LOLQuilt, a ROFLMosaic, or a Deep LOL! Here is the full screen version. You can click ur mouse to zoom in, shift-click to zoom out, or just use the mouse wheel to see that the image is made of thousands of LOLCats. How this came to be? The kittehs [...]

More of Silverlight sound implementation for multimedia app

Roger from SilverlightAddict.com asked me for more information about how I manage the sound effects in the Silverlight version of Legend of the Greasepole. I have a Canvas element in my scene called MusicCanvasRoot.  It contains a number of MediaElement children equal to the maximum number of simultaneous sounds that the game will play. This helper [...]

Intellisense in Expression Blend!

Invisible Add-In Support in Blend June Preview + Robby’s Intellisense code from KAXAML + Stefan’s great work = Awesome. +1 to excitement about add-in support in Blend +1 to observations that the WPF designer in VS2008 is way too slow +1 to also wanting C# Intellisense in Blend, to reduce VS2008/Blend context switching (And no I don’t care that I’m not supposed [...]

Pasting code into WordPress easily?

I would be very grateful for any advice on how to paste code from Visual Studio into a WordPress post.  I have never found a plug-in or cut-and-paste pipeline that worked well for me.

Back in Action

I’m back in Toronto after a much appreciated break in Italy and Greece. Before I left, I had the chance to work on a very interesting Silverlight and Windows Live project, and this week I am planning for the rest of the calendar year and eagerly anticipating the release of .NET 3.5 SP1! Silverlight Streaming was updated [...]