I have created a small implimentation of Silverlight 2.0.
There are couple of free distributions of Photo Gallery using Silverlight, but I wanted to create my own.
thought I dont know how to load Images dynamically, I added all the Images in project. so later added Images will not included in this application.
Still have a look in my creation and give suggestions.
http://mandar.rack111.com/projects/photoalbum
NOTE: Images in album are not taken by me.
Just I saw announcement from WordPress, they have added new theme called Monotone, which is perfect for any photoblog as it picks up first photo from your post and change theme color accrodingly.
They have test blog for this theme too.
As there is ample space for us to upload photos, I have also created my photoblog under this theme.
Have a look at this blog.
while surfing I found some ‘Learning Snacks’ thing for Silverlight and Windows 2008.
These are the tutorials, videos or presentation made by Microsoft’s peoples and presented as free tutorials.
Snack is played in a Player made completely in Silverlight Technology.
find these tutorials here. Hope you will find them intresting.
I’ve found one nice Silverlight Animation Library, even I havn’t given a try yet.
but seems to be helpful for all.
http://weblogs.asp.net/aboschin/archive/2007/09/08/silverlight-animation-library.aspx
Are you a doodler? Do you find that you have a tendency to pick up a pen or pencil and make little drawings or shapes when you are talking on the phone or when your mind is wandering? Doodles are sketches or drawings made while a person’s attention is occupied elsewhere. Believe it or not, these scribbles, shapes or drawings can actually be reflective of what is going on in your subconscious mind.
Let me give you an example. Recently, I was talking with my dear friend Bernard about a small problem he was trying to resolve. During our conversation, he was doodling on a stray piece of paper, and as my eyes followed the shape of his little drawings, I realized that his drawings were actually providing an answer to his problem.
I pointed this out to him and, after examining his doodles, he agreed with me. He was very entertained by the prospect that his mind had provided an answer and said it was the cheapest and most pleasant therapy he had ever experienced.
It is well documented, that much of our creative expression comes to us from our subconscious, and doodling is simply a manifestation of that creative expression. Doodling allows the subconscious mind to communicate through pictorial symbols, many of which have universal meanings, such as circles, spirals, crosses, flowers, etc.
It stands to reason that if this symbolic communication can occur through doodling, then if we wanted to, you could choose to make contact with your subconscious mind through some directed meditative doodling. If you are up for trying this, let yourself doodle on notepaper while you are mentally engaged in another activity, such as talking on the phone or watching television. Remember that it only really works when you are not consciously directing your scribbling actions. Afterwards, take some time to inspect your doodles for words and picture clues that might hold the solution to your problem or a helpful insight.
So, the next time you find yourself at a loss over a situation, give this technique a try. You just might find that your subconscious mind holds an answer.
Instead of defining what is design pattern lets define what we mean by design and what we mean by pattern. According to me design is blue print or sketch of something so it can be defined as creation of something in mind. Moving to pattern, we can define it as guideline, or something that repeats. Now the definition of design pattern becomes creating something in mind that repeats or in other words capturing design ideas as a “pattern” to the problems.
Some problem patterns happen over and over again in a given context and Design Pattern provides a core of the solution in such a way that you can use the core solution every time but implementation should and may vary and the main reason behind that is we have the core solution and not the exact solution. We can discuss an example here about database normalization. Normalization is a pattern (Core solution to database design) but what level of normalization you need (exact solution) depends on your requirement and context.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
-Weinberg’s Second Law
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-Donald Knuth, March 22, 1977
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
-Anonymous
Programmer (n): An organism that can turn caffeine into code.
-Anonymous
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
-Donald Knuth
