The cat is out of the bag and despite rumors of my retirement from writing, I am actually contributing to another book.

Microsoft recently released Silverlight 2.0 to the public. After the Olympic games, Silverlight ended up on a LOT of people's computers, but Silverlight 2 has more importance to application developers in the future. I discuss that in this post

Recently a Microsoft developer posted a blog entry detailing a very negative experience he had with the iPhone SDK, Cocoa, and Xcode. MS developers allowing their first impression to taint their view of Mac programming is common, but easily corrected

In this blog post I show you how to create your own continuous aggregates that extend CLINQ with domain-specific functionality like VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price).

I'm just about ready to start upgrading the demo suite to be compatible with some of the new code I'm writing for CLINQ 1.1 and thought I'd post a preview of Continuous Aggregation

This blog post contains an explanation of a demo I wrote for the initial release of CLINQ. It uses a WCF Peer Mesh to distribute messages which are then continuously filtered via CLINQ queries

A very common task in data-driven applications is to render lists of data in ledger-style with alternating row background styles/colors. Unfortunately, a lot of the samples for this are wrong and only apply to limited cases.

Roughly drafted has done a review of the presentation I gave during the WWDC

I just got my hands on the Acropolis CTP for Orcas and followed the RSS Reader tutorial

I first encountered the delegate design pattern when learning Cocoa, but I have found that its use has actually made some Windows Vista (WPF) programming tasks easier as well!

Microsoft's WPF/E, which is now called Silverlight, is a cross-platform, cross-browser platform for RIA (Rich Interactive Application). Question is: will anyone use it??

In a previous article I explored a comparison between VS 2005 and the Xcode/Interface Builder IDEs. In this article, I explore implementing the MVC pattern in WPF applications

This blog entry contains a summary of some of my experiences in using state machine workflows to control the flow and logic of a complex WPF application

I recently ran across a huge gaping hole in WPF bindings, one that leaves me asking ...WTF??

I have a more narrow definition of what a MUD is than most people, and I've been considering turning Ulysses Agenda into a MUD project.

While continuing my learning of Objective-C and Cocoa programming, I am also continuing to compare and contrast and hopefully become a better programming. Today I compare the NIB file vs the XAML file

I don't intend to declare a "winner" or say which one I like best, I merely want to compare and contrast for my own edification and to illustrate the differences (and similarities) to Cocoa newbs like me

Recently I published a blog post about the monostate pattern and how it can dramatically simplify the life of a WPF developer of real-world applications. I've actually got some issues with monostate now after some experimentation.

Ordinarily I'm of the opinion that refactoring too early can cause more problems than it solves. However, this one was a no-brainer.

I've been expanding on the basic network framework for the Ulysses Agenda game and I've got a working authentication service up and running - and uses the "SOA on an ESB" pattern

Some of you may have noticed a similarity between UA's network design and ESB implementations that embrace SOA concepts. This post illustrates how the design and implementation of Ulysses Agenda is simple, yet extremely extensible. Thanks to ESB/SOA

I was recently interviewed by Mary J Foley where she asked me some questions about how Ulysses Agenda was making use of the new .NET Framework 3.0 technologies

So many of the data binding examples that I've seen have been overly simplistic, some even use the constructor of the bound object to populate the source items. This doesn't work in the real world and I've got a solution

This article shows some of the code from the first round of network engine proof of concept code for the Ulysses Agenda game.

So the other day I was thinking about how I was going to design the schema for the Ulysses Agenda game's server-side database, and then I had a revalation! I wanted pizza! But after I had that revalation, something else dawned on me!