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The Silverlight 3 development experience, ups and downs
I started a little science project for CoasterBuzz
about a week ago or so. I wanted to build a little Silverlight app that
sucked down updates of all kinds, and make it live outside the browser.
There are constantly new posts, topics, news items and photos hitting
the site, and anything that encourages people to keep coming back is a
good thing. It's not a giant community, but big enough that people like
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Silverlight 3: Calling a WCF service without a proxy using Binary XML
David Betz has a really solid (and really, really long) post on calling a WCF service from Silverlight, without using a Service Reference. I'm certainly not going to try and top that or duplicate it, but I wanted to share my experience using the same methodology only with Binary XML as the medium. I'm not interested in the politics over whether or not it should be used, as I'm using WCF and Silverlight. Interoperability beyond that is not important to me.
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Do you ever get the feeling that XML configuration is out of control?
I decided to take a break yesterday from my efforts toward a new site to "enjoy" a little science project. The short description is that it's a little Silverlight app that I'd like to run out-of-browser, talking to the server via a WCF service. Before I knew it, I felt like there was XML configuration everywhere.
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VisualSVN for the win
A very long time ago I set up Subversion on one of my servers, and did it the old fashioned way... mucking about with config files and all of that with an instance of Apache. Yuck. I remember it taking a few hours because I hadn't seen Apache since, well, since long before I would've called myself a professional code monkey.
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Silverlight 3 and Twitter
The Twitterworld or (Twittersphere or whatever silly shit someone made up today) was all abuzz about the release of Silverlight 3 today, and I was shocked at how quickly it made the trends and how overwhelmingly it was positive.
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304 Your images from a database
I was reading somewhere about some anecdotal evidence that Google doesn't like to index images that don't have some kind of modification time on them. When I relaunched CoasterBuzz last year, I moved all of my coaster pr0n to the database, and I've since noticed that none of the images are in fact indexed. Bummer.