Since 2007 Silverlight has been popping up on sites and become a powerful tool for dynamic, robust web development. More and more companies are deciding to deliver content using this technology to generate interactive and captivating web experiences. From an end user’s perspective it’s as simple as downloading a small plug-in (which now comes installed on Windows 7) and the web lights up. But what about developing for Silverlight? I’ll give you some first hand recounts of ups and downs of development using this new and emerging technology. [More]

With so many phones available these days, it’s hard to keep up with what’s available. Seems like every day phone companies are airing some ridiculous commercial with a phone dropping from space like Gort (that would be so much cooler of an analogy had they not redone TDTESS) and changing the world. With all of these new phones comes a plethora of new functionality that most users have rarely seen.

I’ve had a Windows Mobile phone for the past 7+ years going all the way back to Windows Mobile 5.0. I’ve since upgraded several times and am currently running Windows Mobile 6.5, albeit on a dismal wireless network where I live (not even 3G….). Through those years I learned a good bit about Windows Mobile, the ins and outs of its programming, tweaks, and more importantly, how do to recover when I totally jack it up. [More]

I've built several sites that utilize LINQ to read XML files. And repeatedly I come across an issue where I seemingly have everything in the right place and coded, yet it does not compile. [More]