Bryan Sampica

Once and a while, I come across a problem that requires some "solving".  It's a different scenario that the typical "I've done this before, lets do it again", where you may make something better, or more efficient, or refactor it in some way.

Just a short note today – mostly so I can look up later what I’ve done to get this working, but also to share the knowledge! 

It’s common in my LOB applications to come across situations where I invent something, and later think…this would be useful for the community.

Just a short post to help out some poor soul dealing with some of the same issues I did before it hit me like a cream pie (right in the face).

Just a short entry today on a fun little project I came across.  I had a friend that for “educational purposes” wanted to know how to write a little WPF program that would Auto Vote on a twtpoll poll that was enabled for a 24 hour period.

Today I went looking for a simple skinable container control that I could use in Silverlight 4.  I of course checked the framework first, and didn’t find exactly what I was looking for.   I then checked the Silverlight Toolkit for Silverlight 4, which has some really cool container controls, but again, nothing specifically like I was looking for. 

I recently had a friend ask me about my use of implicit operators.  I’ve been using them for a while now, but don’t think they’ve gained much traction for some reason, as I rarely come across code where they’ve been implemented.

So the Silverlight platform has been quite interesting for some time in concept, and had some niche abilities that made it perfect for streaming media, or writing simple rich applications.  Around the time of Silverlight 3 things started to get interesting;  as the tools developed, and the platform matured!