It might come as a shock to many of you, but often on the internet the world is flat. Yes I know that you thought this whole debate had gone out with the ark (or actually a little later), but after years coming to terms of the world being a sphere, cartographers everywhere needed a method of putting that world  down onto paper. Now this was fine for many years until 2nd May 2000 the US decided to turn off Selective Availability and whole world seemingly brought into WGS84. The difficulty here though is the fact that WGS84 and Longitude and Latitude coordinates are an approximate representation of...

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...

The post was going to be initially titled, why Visual Studio 2008 is like a VW Bora, in reference to the current fun I’ve been having with my current Silverlight adventures. Unfortunately that particular episode will have to wait although I might give it as my Ignite presentation at our companies away day, watch this space as I’ll only give it if we don’t get enough other presenters. Anyway I digress, or should that be ramble, the current post has been sparked by two things, watching Doctor Who episodes with my daughter and fixing a simple connectivity problem in Silverlight. Sonic What? Just in...