Archive for December, 2008

 

David on Dec 15th, 2008StaffWars.fm Preview

Yesterday me and my good friend Jamie won the last.fm Hack Day with our application – StaffWars.fm. We coded the entire application from scratch in just 7 hours while enjoying a free bar. Given that we were possibly drinking heavily the application is a little rough around the edges but we’ll hopefully get something out [...]

David on Dec 5th, 2008Silverlight JavaScript Value Converter

Value converters allow you to modify the value of the source property of a binding before it is applied to the target. As shown in my previous WPF examples, you would normally write a new class implementing the IValueConverter interface which will do the conversion. For simple transforms such as performing basic arithmetic or formatting [...]