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Mike Holmes Makes it Right

I’ve pretty much decided that Mike Holmes is my new idol. If you’re reading this from Canada, you know who Mike is: the contractor who arrives at botched renovation jobs and works his magic. So why is this guy my new idol? 1. He knows everything there is to know about construction. He seems to have deep [...]

Legend of the Greasepole, Silverlight 2 Beta Edition

The Legend of the Greasepole is a game that began its life on July 1st, 1996, when a group of Engineering students from Queen’s University in Canada decided they’d create a way to re-live their unexplainable annual tradition from the comfort of their long-suffering computers. After last year’s XNA port, the release of the Silverlight 2 [...]

User Experience in Toronto and Las Vegas

I’m presenting at the Toronto Code Camp on Saturday about What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight developers. My presentation will be an updated version of the presentation I gave at ObjectSharp’s Visual Studio 2008 At the Movies event, which hopefully you’ll find interesting and useful if you’re doing client-side [...]