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WhereTheEL: Tracking the Chicago CTA "El" System

Try 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...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 07-22-2008
Facebook Developer Toolkit 1.6 Released on CodePlex

We'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...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 01-15-2008
Twitterlight: Silverlight 2.0 (Alpha) Twitter Mashup

The 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 ===========================================================...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 01-08-2008
Ding Ding! Sandcastle Oct CTP and the Sandcastle Help File Builder

About a month ago, I began using the October 2007 CTP release of Sandcastle , Microsoft's offering for generating code documentation files from existing .NET 2.0 assemblies. The product will no doubt become the standard for generating your project's docs, replacing the previously ubiquitous NDoc...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 11-27-2007
WhatWG, W3C and HTML 5.0

It's an interesting exercise every once in a while to take a look at the technologies we use in everyday development, and how they evolve over time. I started out writing HTML 4.0 & ASP 3.0 apps in high school, then watched as .NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 became entwined in our vocabulary. Sitting here...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 08-15-2007
Coding4Fun Developer Kit 2008 Vol.1 Beta Released on Codeplex

Recently, I have been spending most of my time helping put together the Coding4Fun Developer Kit that was released today on Codeplex . This is a Kit put together by Microsoft to open up many of the new and powerful APIs avaiable in Vista and Visual Studio 2008 to enable simple programming interfaces...

Posted to rpowers WebLog (Weblog) by rpowers on 07-26-2007
Facebook Developer Toolkit Version 1.2 Released

I have been spending most of time working on the Facebook Developer Toolkit and monitoring our codeplex site . Things have been going pretty, the response has been pretty positive and the help from the other site contributors has been great. We even just became the 10th most popular project on CodePlex...

Posted to rpowers WebLog (Weblog) by rpowers on 07-06-2007
Using AppDomain to Load and Unload Dynamic Assemblies

Recently a project I was working on required us to dynamically load an assembly at runtime, and invoke a method on the newly loaded assembly. After we had this working, I noticed that when we tried to then load a newer version of the dynamic assembly, the newer bits weren't being picked up, and old code...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 06-28-2007
Silverlight 1.1 on Facebook Canvas Page using ASP.NET and Facebook Developer Toolkit

A couple weeks ago, working with Microsoft we delivered the facebook developer toolkit to help developers write Facebook applications using .net. Since then, we created a codeplex project to help keep the toolkit up to date and relevant. It has been fun, and the response/involvement from the community...

Posted to rpowers WebLog (Weblog) by rpowers on 06-27-2007
Mixed Authentication- ASP.NET Forms and IIS 6.0 Windows Integrated

Recently I was working on a website that needed to leverage both Integrated Windows and Forms Authentication. The idea is that this website has some users that are on Active Directory and should be able to gain access without being challenged from credentials when they are logged into the domain. Additionally...

Posted to rpowers WebLog (Weblog) by rpowers on 06-12-2007

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