Over the last few weeks I’ve been having a few adventures in the world of Silverlight. A bit like Alice I’ve been following white rabbits down holes and through looking glasses. What I’ve discovered is that having an IDE doesn’t always make things easier, especially when the error is occurring somewhere between the chair and the keyboard, a place which is notoriously hard to debug. Brain don’t fail me now One issue I have is with my brain. If you start thinking as if the development environment is going to help you, then when it doesn’t it can completely throw the processes you use to...

I have to admit it I have a problem with dates. I always seem to draw a blank when trying to remember them; I’ve outsourced much of my anniversary notification to outlook and my iPhone, or work with them in applications. It has been ironic this week as the last decade ends and the next decade begins that the first thing that stumps me is a little date problem. A choice of dates I’ve been doing some development using the Silverlight API and I came to the part of the project where I needed to filter data using a date range and display on the map and in graph (or chart) form. Now querying with dates...