Silverlight – Oh no, not this again

Excuse me while I ponder for a minute, but I'm continually surprised by the absolute prostration of some of the development community at the feet of Silverlight. It's filling the .Net blogspace like crazy right now, and many control developers are already shifting focus to it (Telerik and Infragistics, to name two), citing it as the "next generation" of the web. My project manager walked out of the...

First impessions of mono

I've never really been much of an open source guy, but damn if I'm not ecstatic about mono. I've been following the project for a while and loved the concept, so when it came time to re-write this web project I'm working on (originally written in PHP) I though it's the perfect opportunity. Right now we've got mono 1.2.6 running on an ancient machine with CentOS 4.4, and mono itself seems...

Code Camp

I hate airplanes. They need to reorganize the layout of planes into First Class, Business, Coach, and Contagious. Walking disease vectors can have their own little self contained universe in the plane, cut off from recycling their plagues into our breathing space. Can you tell I'm sick? Well, at least it happened at the end of my vacation. Regardless of my sore throat, I lurched my way to Victoria Code Camp...