When Microsoft released Silverlight a huge buzz was created. Since that time it has been installed on over a hundred million (100,000,000) browsers around the world. It provides some of the most advanced methods of RIA (Rich Interface Application) deployment, development, and capabilities available today. The potential for interaction, speed of development, and deployment to... Continue reading →

Ok, ok, during a particular deployment event that somebody was doing somewhere on the planet the team I'm in ran into a perfect analogy for disparate deployment environments… "It's like teaching pilots to fly by driving cars, who needs that extra dimension!" I mean really, pilots don't need that third dimension, who goes up and... Continue reading →

I just stumbled onto this entry by pure accident. It however really struck a note with me. I'm a BIG fan of lean agile. Agile without the iterations, just continuous, fast, always integrating and always developing software. It's fast, absurdly fast, and when the practice is done right, the code quality increases in a very... Continue reading →

Here‘s a few snippets outlining serialization and deserialization of a few object with JSON. At first I started using JSON.NET but it is a bit picky about various things and the samples I found where disparate. I then realized also that in the System.Web.Extensions Namespace there is a class that handles JSON anyway. Might as... Continue reading →

I was trying to get some deserialized JSON objects to bind to my WPF application interface and was struggling. I figured out what the fix was, I took the shortcut route on my objects and should have built them correctly. My original objects where built as such: public class ReportItem { public string AccountId; public... Continue reading →