If you are a fan of swimming last night was an amazing finish in the 100m Butterfly.  To the naked eye it looked like Michael Phelps had been out touched by Milorad Cavic. Thanks to some amazing technology, he  won by 10-thousandth of a second.
Could the incredibly sensitive touch been wrong?  On TV their was [...]

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This week I was having a conversation with my younger brother and he was telling me about this new RIA platform for Java called JavaFX (He’s an interactive Java developer). From what he told me it sounded pretty cool, a lot like version 1 of Silverlight. Here is what I found [...]

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Last week someone requested a new feature to the Silverlight 2 Video player on CodePlex that would allow users to create an external list of “bookmarks”, that would link to a specific marker or moment in playback.  The idea would be to have a series of links outside of Silverlight, that once clicked,playback would jump [...]

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Over the past few months I have created a handful of Silverlight 2 examples that demonstrate basic physics. In this example I am going to demonstrate containment of a variable number of spheres with gravity causing deceleration.  Below you see a simple Grid which I will place a set number of spheres within.  Each sphere [...]

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