Jon Galloway
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Running the Mono VMWare image in VirtualPC
A lot of people love VMWare, but it bugs me. I think the main reason is that it installs with a bunch of Windows services that run automatically, every second my computer is running, whether or not I use VMWare. Since I don't use virtual machines every day, that's annoying. So, after running the free VMWare Player for a few times times, I banished it from my computer.
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[Speaking] 3/25 at Code Trip / San Diego .NET User Group about Silverlight (Hard Rock, Video.Show, etc.)
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Why Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom Really is Something New
The Hard Rock Memorabilia site got a lot of press MIX 08; TechCrunch called it the coolest part of the MIX keynote. It takes advantage of a new Silverlight 2 feature called Deep Zoom, which allows for smooth zooming and panning over a large collection of large images. It's really the kind of thing you have to see; words don't capture it well.
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Opening Adobe Illustrator (AI) files when you don't have Adobe Illustrator
You've been waiting for the design firm to send final artwork. The e-mail finally arrives...
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What's been announced about Silverlight 2? See ScottGu's "First Look" post
I've had a lot of people ask me for hints about what's in Silverlight 2. My general strategy is to tell them to read Scott Guthrie's blog, then fake a seizure. That strategy will work even better starting today, since Scott just posted a First Look at Silverlight 2, along with an eight part tutorial on building a Silverlight Digg client.
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Using Windowless Silverlight Controls To Blend HTML and Silverlight Elements
Silverlight 1.0 has no intrinsic controls. Forget about dropdowns and sliders, Silverlight 1.0 doesn't have textboxes or buttons. That doesn't mean you can't build and deploy advanced Silverlight 1.0 applications today, though. [Sheesh, that sounded like marketing-speak - sorry about that.]
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Video.Show 1.0 - A Ready To Run Solution For Hosting Video On The Web
I'm really excited to announce that Video.Show has officially been released. It's been available on CodePlex (under the liberal MsPL license) since our beta release back in November, but today it's officially been blessed as a 1.0 release. While we were really proud of our beta release, we've been really busy moving this project from a sample to something that's easier to extend and maintain. And when I say "we", I mean Mike Moser, because I moved off the project soon after we hit the beta release.
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Getting JavaScript and ASP.NET talking (outside of AJAX)
A lot of effort has gone into simplifying the AJAX pattern, in which your JavaScript code calls methods on the server without requiring a full page post. You don't hear much about the synchronous case (SJAX?), though - how does your server-side code set values in JavaScript, and how do you set values in JavaScript and pass them back to the server when the page is submitted? In the diagram below - we've got AJAX covered pretty well, but what about the Rendered JavaScript case?