Archives for February 2011

Chart Zoom and Pan Extension for the Silverlight 4 Toolkit

February 13, 2011 by Joel Jeffery Leave a Comment

Geoff Webber-Cross, one of my most excellent Silverlight and SharePoint alumni, has just started a blog and published a neat extension to the Silverlight 4 Toolkit to implement chart zooming and panning.

Getting Started with Web Development Using Microsoft WebMatrix

February 7, 2011 by Joel Jeffery Leave a Comment

Microsoft is really starting to get the hang of this Open Source malarkey, and that giving some things away for free can be tremendously beneficial to winning hearts and minds.

My 11-year-old son has started programming. He gave it a go a little while back, using HTML, Logo and also Scratch from MIT. He wanted something more. I stumbled across Microsoft’s WebMatrix. He’s now building his first web applications.