
February
19 items found
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water
27 February 2009
When you’re considering change, make sure you consider all the implications before you make your decision.
Silverlight in Johannesburg
23 February 2009
Here we go again. In December I ran the first in a series of courses under the Microsoft Metro programme dealing with Silverlight 2.0 for Developers. The whole experience was a delight including the journey – and I don’t travel well.
The flexibility to adapt to change
17 February 2009
Jack Welch of General Motors fame pointed out that when things change faster on the outside than they change on the inside, there’s trouble ahead. So why do so many people continue with a behaviour when it’s not working?
The Designer / Developer workflow
16 February 2009
Many projects involve a team effort between designers and developers. Not to mention stakeholders and subject specialists/consultants. I had planned a thoughtful and structured piece exploring the potential pitfalls of people with different talents, bias and agendas working together. Instead, I find upon proofing, that all I did was rant. Now if I had asked someone else to sanity check this post, it probably wouldn’t have been published.
Has more powerful hardware helped us to design better software?
15 February 2009
Hardware is faster, development tools are slicker and languages are easier to write with – but a software problem is still as complex as it ever was to design and build properly...
Styling controls for Silverlight
13 February 2009
I am finally getting around to something that I have been planning to do for some time. In addition to producing online tutorials, I wanted to accompany them with videos.
Hosting a video with Silverlight Streaming service
11 February 2009
So you have a video that you want to show on the web. Perhaps you would like to include it in a blog post or perhaps you have a web application that features a media player. Where do you store the file ?
The Key to encryption
11 February 2009
