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DeepZoom Philip Stirpe

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 13 November 2008

If it’s good enough for Barak Obama, it’s good enough for me.

Silverlight Flash Mob

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 13 September 2008

Despite how it might occur in search engines, I am not suggesting any form of attack on Adobe Flash.

What is Silverlight ?

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 12 September 2008

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering rich interactive applications for the Web. Over the last two years I have seen growing interest in Silverlight (formally known as WPF/E) and more demand from designers and developers alike for Silverlight training. Well it’s about time I put together a number of posts that look at what Silverlight is, how to write Silverlight applications and the design and development tools available.

Painting Competition

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 31 August 2008

On September 25th 2008, Compendium Games of Burnley (epicentre of the universe) will be holding their 2nd annual painting competition in association with Games Workshop.

I Love to Boogie

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 31 August 2008

No I don’t. Get real ! I am a 40 something bloke who apart from his wedding, hasn’t seen a dance floor since he had hair. That was in the 80s !

How easy is it to change the bindings of a WCF service from Http to tcp ?

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 28 August 2008

I have written a number of posts looking into the basics of Windows Communication Foundation WCF. I have provided an overview of the technology (and wargaming), shown you how to create a simple WCF service and client. I have also looked into hosting services. I think it’s about time I covered bindings.

Hosting a WCF service

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 28 August 2008

If you launch your service from within Visual Studio 2008 it is hosted by WcfSvcHost. However, when you deploy your service you will want something else to do the hosting. For example, you could use a Windows application, a Windows service or IIS. For simplicity, I am going to host my service using a Console application.

So I have decided to paint an army, ahem, write a service

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 27 August 2008

In an earlier post, I provided an overview of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and likened it to wargaming. Well I have finally got around to write a series of posts detailing how to write and configure WCF services. Better late than never !

How is Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) like Wargaming ?

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 21 May 2008

Aside from my wife and family there are only three passions in my life. No that’s not it ! Aside from my wife, my family and keeping the fox off my livestock there are only three passions in my life: programming, teaching people new programming related skills and wargaming. Strictly speaking, only the last one is a passion. The other two are simply jobs that I love and get paid to do. As Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is generating huge interest amongst those moving to .NET 3.0 and 3.5, I thought I would talk about it for a few minutes and squeeze in some wargaming along the way.

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.X. Something for everyone ?

Posted by Phil Stirpe · 06 May 2008

Since October 2007, I have been delivering readiness training on behalf of Microsoft to their partners around Europe. There has been a broad mix of attendee with a variety of skills but it is fair to say that overall, the majority were ASP.NET developers using C# as their programming language. That said, there were plenty of Desktop and ‘backroom’ developers too, not to mention those who preferred VB.Net to C#.

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