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Added Support for Soapbox Videos on Channel 9
Wednesday, August 29, 2007When I started on the C9 dev team, one of the first things I did was to remove the ability for users to post embed, object and script tags. We had a couple of people abusing this feature and I wanted to lock it right down. The downside to this move was that it prevented some forms of user interaction/posts that we didn't really mind and in some cases would even like to encourage. As a small step towards a more community-driven future, I added support to C9 today to allow you to embed Soapbox videos in any forum post. [read more...]Share this -
Overlaying HTML over Silverlight
Tuesday, August 28, 2007In the new code that we are building for Channel 9, we have a few HTML popups here and there... floating divs for user info being one example. At the same time as we've been adding that feature, we also moved from using Windows Media Player to using Silverlight as our video player. We ran into a bit of an issue though, in that our floating HTML was sitting under the Silverlight player, no matter what I did with the z-index of the two areas of the page. That just wouldn't do, so I asked Adam Kinney (Silverlight Evangelist [read more...]Share this -
XSLT and Alternating Rows
Friday, August 17, 2007Saw this today (it is over a year old though) on Roger Hartford's blog; XSLT alternating rows In an XSLT template tag you can simulate the same functionality as in GridView/DataGrid "AlternatingRowClass" property using this syntax:<div class="MyClass"> <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 != 1"> <xsl:attribute name="class">AnotherClass</xsl:attribute> </xsl:if></div>It's that simple!Roger I'm a big fan of XSLT based processing... and it is great to see ways to get exactly the results you want without additional server or client side code... [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Xbox Dad article on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is up
Tuesday, August 14, 2007I was a bit surprised to find that I enjoyed this game, although I enjoyed the last few books in the series and the latest movie, I really figured the game would only appeal to kids. The pace is slower than most adult/teen games, but that makes it into more of an exploration instead of just quickly moving from one task to the next. My wife watched it and thought it was similar to a much more interactive and complex form of the game Myst... there are some action elements where you have to move quickly, target the bad guys, [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Zune for Dummies hits the bookstores
Sunday, August 12, 2007Brian was in town a few days ago and we ended up at a local bookstore... of course, since Brian hadn't even seen our new book, we looked around and found a copy... :) [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this
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