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Casual Game Bumble Beegger now for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Yesterday when I posted about James Bacon's experiences going B1 to B2, I totally glossed over what app he was converting. I was looking at his site this morning and took the link, and realized there was more to that post... James has been assisting Silverlight Girl in getting a casual game up and running and it's available at Mashoo.com -- go figure I can GO to that site from here! -- Silverlight Girl has been blogging Silverlight 2 for a while and nobody's told me about her site, so I thought I's start out with her game... and I suck at it!

Make your Silverlight site ready for Firefox 3

This link came across the Silverlight.net rss feed and was a little weird since it's a post wholly-contained in the feed I guess. It has a little info about the upcoming FF release that "breaks" Silverlight and then it references Piotr Puszkiewicz's posts that follow...

Automatically Start Silverlight on Install - Part 1

Piotr Puszkiewicz has 3 really nice posts on his site about dealing with the install. I've got them here in the order they were written. This one first, followed by Determining if Silverlight is installed using Javascript , and then Automatically Start Silverlight on Install - Part 2 , all of which have ascending levels of goodness from JS out to the codebehind, and apparently following the recipe, he's resolving the FF issues as well... how cool is that??

Animating ListBox items - the VisualStateManager

Ivan Dragoev has a nice post on animating the ListBox items using VSM ... again, more VSM goodness :)

Upgrading from Silverlight Beta 1 to Beta 2

I got this link to Richard Griffin's blog via Tim Heuer. Richard has more than just B1 to B2 stuff on this post... so don't just walk past... take a look at it...

SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!

David Anson has updated his XPS Viewer to Beta 2 ... that's what, 3 major fixes in 3 days... somebody has a lot more time than me :)

Toys for Tweets, Take (beta) 2…

Jeff Paries pinged me that he has his Twemes client upgraded to Beta 2, and details some issues he had along the way.

Drag & Drop DataGridRows

Lee posts about drag and drop with DataGridRows in B2 and talks about mouse issues... but I think there were a couple posts yesterday that may resolve that, if I remember right??

Updated Triangle Control for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Florian Krüsch has updated his very cool Triangle Control to Beta 2 ... remember that from not that long ago?? ok... go look!

Silverlight unit test framework download for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Jeff Wilcox talks about and delivers a UnitTest Framework for SL2B2.

NBC Olympics video player

And where has Corey Schuman been, you may ask... well I did when I saw he had new product up.... and dang... he's been working on the Olympic viewer... and there's videos up there to look at... very nice work...

DiscreteSlider - Adding Functionality with a Simple Control Subclass

Dave Relyea discusses putting discrete values into the slider rather than getting those big honking double values out like I've gotten on the project I'm working on... so this is most definitely a useful read!

Today is the day, or maybe it was yesterday, depends on how you look at it.

June 13, 2005 I came off being out of work for 2-1/2 months and transitioned from being a win32/PlatformSDK/MFC Guru to being able to find my way around in .NET 1.1/C#/Crystal Reports/MS Access/Oracle. The company that hired me took somewhat of a risk that I could do what I said and when the 6 months was up, the customer bought in for another, then another, etc. and so here we are today banging on the front door of a 4th year.

I've gotten good at what I do inside the confines of these applications and am transitioning two major web apps to .NET 2.0. I've not gotten good enough to answer interview questions on .NET apparently, as was tested out in December :)

Silverlight blew into my world 18 months ago and has sucked up all available free time... I don't even remember how I used to spend time away from here prior to early December, 2006.

All-in-all this is a good gig... I've got a good relationship with the customer, and don't generally have anyone breathing down my back. On the downside, it is absolutely solo... so I have nobody to bounce ideas or problems off, and nobody to challenge me like my buddy Bill used to do e.g. "I can write that code in xxx lines" :)

The frustration factors still exist such as: gas over $4 and having to drive 54 miles round-trip on what we call 'freeways'. Or not being able to view technical blogs at Blogspot, or spaces.live.com, or just any place they block such as FranksWorld.com -- sorry Frank! Ads that are served from some places throw up a forbidden banner, forget images that are served up from flickr or webcasts posted on youtube, or any similar places. Add to that list tinyrul or any of those sorts of things, any sort of P2P site such as twitter or IM. Oh... and personal email or webmail!

But, I continue to learn and be productive and they pay me pretty well, so hey... it's *way* better than checking bags at the door of Wal*Mart or asking if you 'want fries with that' and the older you get, the closer you get to those positions :)

So I'll just walk on through this door into year 4 on-site and...