Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0)
Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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I'm not a musician, but I've always loved tinkering with
synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. I worked at a music
store in high school, so I got to play with all the new toys. Since
then, I've bought myself a new synth-related toy every once in a
while.
Music composition and tracker tools on the web have always been
interesting to me. There have been a few different Silverlight...
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Content management of images, especially in publication
scenarios where multiple crops and sizes of one image must all be
available and associated together, is not a simple problem to
solve.
At Mix10, I caught up with Pete Miller from Conde Nast Digital
and Alex Norcliffe from Xeed. (Alex
is also on the Umbraco core project team.)
We talked about the challenges around content m...
Published
Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WindowsClient, Umbraco, Channel9, Windows-Phone, MIX10 |
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In the .NET 3.5 timeframe and earlier, many client developers
referenced System.Web.dll in order to be able to use
System.Web.HttpUtility and its helpful encode/decode and parse
methods. While those functions were really useful, the full
framework is a pretty hefty tax to pay for just a couple
methods.
I ran across this tax today when I tried to use a popular
twitter
library (w...
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On a fairly regular basis, I get email or blog comments where
someone will ask me how to create something they have zero
experience with. Invariably, it's a project that is enormously
complex.
Poking a little fun (good naturedly, I'll add) the requests are
usually something like this:
Hi.
I want to build the next space shuttle. I know how to build
landing gear and the fuel inj...
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Earlier this year, I created a new version of my site using Umbraco, and ported
my old community server blog over to it. If you're reading on my
site now, you're reading this on an umbraco-based blog. I'm still
working on porting my main site (wallpaper, hobbies etc.) to the
new platform, but the site came out well. While working with
Umbraco, I was thoroughly impressed with the simplici...
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Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for
them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even
think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote
showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing trivia
questions.
MIX has been my favorite conference since I first attended in 2006. Last year I had a
blast and entered the show...
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The editor (or some other code) in umbraco does a few things I
strongly dislike. One of them is removing the target="_blank" from
url's I add. I like all external urls to open in a new window so
the visitor doesn't forget about my site. I'd add it back into the
html and the editor would strip it back out again. Annoying.
I've never written a line of jQuery before, but tonight, with
so...
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Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked at a consulting company for a bit over 13 years. Prior to that, I started the IT department at a medical billing company and worked there for 4 years while completing my Computer Science degree. Seeing Scott’s post on past work he did years ago at SparkFun and 800.com got me to thinking about some of the interesting projects I’ve been on. I’ve been a develo...
Published
Friday, January 22, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, RIA, Expression-Blend, AIS, Facebook, Retro, ASP.NET, Web-Development, SketchFlow, Windows-Forms, CPP, WindowsClient, geek |
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Last week, I opened a very unscientific poll on Twitter asking what MS technologies developers were using to build their current in-progress applications. It was retweeted about within the Silverlight community, but also with broader reach folks like Scott Hanselman, Brad Abrams, and Phil Haack, as well as a few people in the Windows Forms community. (Please note that I allowed for multiple ...
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I was adding a splash screen to my Silverlight project and ran into a sudden compile problem with the ASP.NET web site. The compile error was: Project file must include the .NET Framework assembly 'WindowsBase, PresentationCore, PresentationFramework' in the reference list. I verified that the loose Silverlight xaml file was set to just content, with no build action. However, I kept getting t...