HTML5 Web Sockets: A Quantum Leap in Scalability for the Web | SOA World Magazine
An even better explanation of Comet techniques, an argument for why we need WebSockets
(tags: websockets html5 comet polling longpolling)
Map: Beer vs. Grocery Stores
The midwest takes their beer seriously.
(tags: beer)
New Adventures in Comet: polling, long polling or Http streaming with AJAX. Which [...]
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TileCache, from MetaCarta Labs
I think this can be used to create a role-playing gaming world. Google Maps for Primordia, anyone?
Dr. Z's Blog : Enabling Silverlight 4 on Visual Studio 2010 RC
Incredible hack to get Silverlight 4 to work with Visual Studio 2010 RC.
(tags: silverlight visualstudio)
Creating Cool Draggable Window in Silverlight
Simple technique to make a Silverlight OOB app draggable via a surface drag. In the old days, we did this with something like NC_HITTEST… actually [...]
How to install a Silverlight OOB app without using a browser
Cool way install a Silverlight XAP without first loading it into a brower.
(tags: silverlight)
Whoa! Via @codinghorror
So, I started to do a little fiddling with .NET. On the train home today, I was doing some work in Visual Studio 2010, in my Windows 7 VM (via Fusion on my MacBook). The MacBook is not speedy, 2.0Ghz Core Duo processor with 2GB of RAM and an Intel graphics card… the crappy kind [...]
February has been a roller-coaster. We went skiing as a family three weeks in a row, Giovanni navigated a small mogul trail after just 3 weekends since putting on skiis for the first time*, Antonio learned the names of the top players on every NFL team, my daughter turned 4, and Marco wrestled his way [...]
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