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I have an Icon fetish that is disturbingly wrong. In that I collect them, horde them and would happily spend Microsoft’s good hard earned money on as many of them as I can find – if allowed.
Yet, what makes Icon’s so special? in that why do they enhance an applications user interface to [...]

 
I’ve just finished reading Kelly’s post on CBS + Silverlight + Accessibility.  Its a great post, as the intent and motivation behind it seems to be based from a healthy place.
The thing about this post however, is the cold hard reality of what the intent of this post today is unlikely to yield a positive [...]

I take a lot of inspiration from the iPhone, as to me its this device that fits in your hand and has not a lot of real estate, yet it accomplishes more tasks at times than most computer desktops today. I can make calls, check email, look at calendar, browse sites online, play a game, [...]

You can stare at that blinking cursor inside Visual Studio all you want, it’s not going to give you an immediate insight into how you should architect your Silverlight solution so that it can be reusable and scale.
It’s not that you’re an idiot or aren’t good at programming, it’s just that you are trying to [...]

If you’ve read any book on design patterns, prospective memory is bound to come up. A lot of folks may read it and go “ahh, nah, i don’t know what to do with that” and i state this as i constantly wonder as to why applications continue to hassle users to “Save this to the [...]

How many kettles have you owned over the years? is it more than one? has it always been the same one?
It’s a pretty straight forward device, you fill it up with water, it heats up and then you tip the contents out into a container.
Why then are there so many varieties of Kettles? Why are [...]