I feel like a quick rant…. Why on earth is the standard numeric data type used throughout WPF and Silverlight a double? 97% of the time, when you’re working with numbers in any app, a float will do you just fine. Particularly when you’re merely dealing with layout and transforms in WPF/SL, I can scarcely [...]
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Steve Jobs called this the “post-PC” era, where simpler smartphones and tablets dominate a market that used to be exclusive to desktops and laptops. Even game consoles can do many of the basic services of a computer. The focus on the consumer has, in the past few years, taken on its primary role as the [...]
I’ve been spending more time recently focusing on design patterns. Basically I’m just looking to add more clever tricks to my developer sack-o-tricks. The best way to think of patterns, in my mind, is just an elegant solution to a common problem. When I run into an interesting problem I need to solve, I do [...]
The WPF team, by design, hid what they could of the underlying mechanisms used to render graphical elements in WPF. The overall philosophy was to make WPF a designer-centric universe, where users care more about things being more or less intuitive and “just working” than the more coder-esque ideals of ensuring things work optimally, are [...]
