Monthly Archives: September 2009

Creating a custom Silverlight 3 Smooth Streaming player

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Marcus

When it comes to video delivery, I come from a Flash background.  I’ve worked on numerous streaming video projects over the years, all of which were created with Flash & Actionscript on the client side. Having been through the process … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Silverlight/xaml bug

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Marcus

This one was driving me crazy for at least a few hours.  On a fresh install of VS2008 & Silverlight 3 tools, there was no xaml code highlighting at all, no intellisense, nothing – just like any ordinary text file.  … Continue reading →

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10 Enterprise Architecture Pitfalls

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Marcus

An interesting article from Gartner Analysts.  I know I’ve been involved in many projects over the years which touch upon most of these issues at some point.  The benefit of hindsight :)

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.NET Development on a Mac – Fusion or Parallels?

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Marcus

I’ve been recently issued with my first Mac for work, and have been in the process of setting it up as my dev machine.  I’m familiar with using Mac’s in several roles over the years, but resisted using one day-to-day … Continue reading →

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