Posts By Steve Holstad
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Sep 09Gadfly Upcoming FeaturesWe’ve had a LOT of great feeback come in regarding Gadfly the past few weeks, thanks to everybody that’s made an effort to tell us what they love, hate and want to see in the future. I thought it was only fair to publish a list of upcoming items, both to whet your whistle and [...]
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Sep 09Introducing Gadfly, The Silverlight Twitter Client (with Out of Browser support)We recently released Gadfly, our Silverlight Twitter client, to public beta. This project stems from my old Twitterlight days, and thanks to a few kind souls here at Clarity, the project gained momentum and has become a very well received Silverlight offering. Gadfly has already become the everyday Twitter client for some, thanks to the [...]
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Mar 09Silverlight March Madness Bracket ApplicationLast week was the start of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, aka March Madness. I did the obligatory bracket predictions via the usual sites, but noticed this could be an excellent opportunity to showcase Silverlight. Jeff had been tossing around the idea of creating something like this for awhile, and he convinced me to get [...]
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Jan 09Thirsty Developer Show – Twitterlight (Silverlight + Twitter Client)Last week Larry Clarkin of The Thirsty Developer and I sat down to discuss my hobby project Twitterlight, a fully-functional Twitter client written in Silverlight. We discussed Twitter’s REST service, getting started with Silverlight development and some common pitfalls to avoid. I think it turned out nicely, check it out and let me know if [...]
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Oct 08Twitterlight updated to Silverlight RTWTwitterlight, THE browser-based Silverlight Twitter client, has been updated from Beta 2 to the official Silverlight 2.0 RTW. http://www.twitterlight.com
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Jul 08WhereTheEL: Tracking the Chicago CTA “El” SystemTry the WhereTheEL alpha The past few weeks I have been spending some of my days creating a project we have discussed here at Clarity for quite some time: live tracking the trains of the Chicago “EL” system. Currently GPS data is not yet available for individual trains, so we decided to leverage the growing [...]
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May 08Twitterlight updated with animating wrap panelTwitterlight has been updated with some new features that really up the usability of the app. http://www.twitterlight.com Defaulted the view to Public, so non-Twitter users can see data on page load Added profile pics back in Added link to Twitter page on username Made some massive changes to how the app’s structure reorganizes: Moved to [...]
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Apr 08Twitterlight to Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1Ok ok, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded the Twitterlight Silverlight Twitter client to Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. The Coding4Fun article has been updated with the latest source. The client is live at twitterlight.com. The major updates involved changing how some of the synchronous web service calls (authenticate, create TinyUrl) work within the app, now [...]
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Jan 08Facebook Developer Toolkit 1.6 Released on CodePlexWe’ve released the latest version of the Facebook Developer Toolkit on CodePlex. This release addresses a change to the Profile.SetFBML() method within the Facebook API. As of Thursday, Jan 17, 2008, Facebook will no longer accept the legacy version of this method, which allowed three versions of Facebook Markup Language (FBML) within the same parameter. [...]
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Jan 08Twitterlight: Silverlight 2.0 (Alpha) Twitter MashupThe Twitterlight Coding4Fun article has been published. I’ve added some updates, including url link support. Check it out! All the source code is available, just make sure you add in references to the C1.Silverlight.dll. Enjoy. – steve ======================================================================= I ended up with a bit of bench time this week, so I’ve been working on two [...]
