Mexico / Mäxchen / Meier

“Thirsty” programmer are the worse and it’s even worse when you want to play a dice game without dices. Since none of us carries dices with them all the time (just in case we’r in the mood to play with some friends) I descided to make a new game. Because “we” don’t...

Drama am Handelskai

Heute bekamen wir besuch von der Feuerwehr. Da quasi vor der Bürotüre (die Baustelle ums Eck) ein Gasflasche brannte. Bei dieser “kleinen” Aktion wurde auch gleich der Handelskai gesperrt, wie man auf den beiden Fotos eindrucksvoll sieht. Zum glück war es...

System.Xml.Linq.XDocument

In Silverlight 3.0 XmlDocument is no more. Instead, we have to use XDocument, XElement, XAttribute from System.Xml.Linq namespace. It can be used in combination with linq, so here is how to parse a very simple xml-file: <?xml version=\”1.0\”?>...

Stand alone multiplatform Silverlight application

It is a real challenge to run Silverlight applications standalone and have a way to do interprocess communication with windows applications! For our ongoing challenge we got inspired by DesLighter from Blendables – after this I found a more generic recipe  Stand...

How to leverage Surface investments for Windows 7

My article yesterday caused a little bit of confusion so I will try to explain a little more in detail what options we have. In order to run Surface applications you have three basic options: A real Microsoft Surface Table A developer work seat with the tools provided...