Rediscovering the Obvious

Silverlight 2 RTW, or, how Microsoft choked

First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the "final" version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:45 PM by willeke | 1 Comments

Today, I played designer

It was rather nice. For a few minutes earlier today, I was able to experience the designer's perspective of Blend. We had a bug filed on one of our common controls' visual appearance, and a designer and a developer were pairing on cleaning it up. They Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:33 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Thoughts on Batch Size

The concepts surrounding batch size have been floating around my head again in recent days. My current assignment is a rather large batch of work with Silverlight 2.0, but it's one that I've been able to subdivide into a number of small batches that rapidly Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:29 PM by willeke | 0 Comments