Let me confess I like Silverlight. I believe it is a welcome addition to enable delivering rich interactive experiences on a browser. However I have hit upon a couple of roadblocks that were not immediately obvious, at least to me, in considering the application of this technology. My contention is that Silverlight, or Flash or [...]
XAML Revolution
December 8, 2007 By 2 Comments
Found this via TimS blog, a brand new whitepaper that distills the experience of early forays into the WPF/XAML way of building rich user experiences. The whitepaper is a much needed guide around how workflows between designers and developers may be organized. Its a quick read at under 17 pages but is filled with little [...]
Have you ever loved an idea?
December 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I stumbled upon this entry on my Google Reader today and got all nostalgic. Amongst the events that have made a deep impact on my life and career COM has to be right at the top 10. I loved COM and everything about it, it was one of those things that I ‘understood’, not in [...]
Ouch! That should have hurt…
November 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Such a nasty blow! That was the competitive equivalent of thrust, twist and pullback. And for all the blood shedding one barely hears a squeak, from the offended party or the press. Of course I refer to the forking of Java by Google Open Social. The ostensible reason being better performance on constrained devices, which [...]
Java plays catchup?
August 27, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Sun Microsystems plans to have a version on Java, termed Java Kernel, to be hosted in browsers, have the ability to download various pieces as needed etc. Basically, I guess, to have a small footprint, be host-able in a more efficient manner. Found here, via a link on CodeProject. There is more detail at link [...]
OneNote 2007 on a laptop
July 17, 2007 By 3 Comments
I have had Office 12 installed on my machine for a week now. And the thing that am persistently returning too is OneNote 2007. The little tweaks and changes have made it a much more usable product than OneNote 2003. The Outlook integration and shared sessions has to be my favorite, amongst others. But I have this nagging feeling am [...]
Moonlight in 21 days
June 28, 2007 By Leave a Comment
What can be done in 21 days you ask? Well, how about Silverlight implemented on the Mono platform? Read this blog post to get a sense of what can be accomplished with the right set of people and of course Miguel heading it all….
In the beginning was Word 2003
February 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
To elaborate on the work that I do- I manage a small offshore development team of 11 for a equity research authoring tool. We leverage the Smart Documents feature of Word 2003 extensively. This allows us to mark specific content fragments within the document with XML tags, thus allowing validations to be performed, to display [...]
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