TechDays 2008: Silverlight Samurai Skills

Thanks to everyone who came out to my Silverlight Samurai Skills presentations this morning in Toronto, and to Microsoft Canada for inviting me to present at this event. When the Canadian team does events, they do them really big – and really well! I hope you found the sessions useful and engaging.  They certainly provided… Continue reading TechDays 2008: Silverlight Samurai Skills

LOL+Arts Exhibit in San Francisco

I’m delighted to hear that the FractLOL, which blends Deep Zoom and LOLCats into a mosaic of hilarity, is going to be exhibited at LOL+Arts, a cross-media exhibit of artworks inspired by the LOLCat phenomenon. The exhibit will be open in San Francisco on October 23rd, and will benefit Partners in Reading and their work… Continue reading LOL+Arts Exhibit in San Francisco

I maded you a FractLOL…

… and then I Silverlit it! It’s alternately a LOLQuilt, a ROFLMosaic, or a Deep LOL Here is the full screen version. Click, drag, shift-click and use the mouse wheel to see that the image is made of over 10,000 LOLCats (there are 2,442 unique images here). How this came to be? The kittehs are… Continue reading I maded you a FractLOL…

WPF Commanding – When do Commands re-evaluate their CanExecute method?

I had been merrily using WPF’s built-in support for the Command Pattern for ages (see Commanding Overview, MSDN Docs, and article on implementing the command pattern in WPF, Jeff Druyt)… when suddenly it occured to me that I had no idea what triggered WPF to determine whether or not a command can be executed. Let… Continue reading WPF Commanding – When do Commands re-evaluate their CanExecute method?