BinaryJam

The great thing about wordpress or any other decent blogging engine is that it gathers stats.  Stats on visits, stats on click thru’s but most important and most interesting is the stats on referrers !  This can be search engine terms, I’m sorry to say that I have no interesting search referrers like Rory but the Silverlight posts have lead me to an interesting site and better still he has a link to mine !

Pete Brown has a lovely example of Silverlight animation that’s just so pretty called balloons.  Can you tell what it is yet ?  This is done in Silverlight 1.1 and he goes into detail on some of the problems he has had in creating this and what things are lacking in Alpha.

So take a look at this and his other posts all are pretty interesting, I know I will.

Technorati tags: Silverlight

For those that know me, you will be aware that we had a little boy born in January.  Logan was a worry from day 1 as he was born six weeks early and shuffled off to a little plastic box.

Since we got him home he’s been constantly medicated, mostly vitamins and will be for the next year, but also ever feed has Gaviscon in it as he has a reflux problem too.  The general medical populous blaming his screaming on colic.  We were lucky I suppose in having access to a pediatrician who just said babies cry for a reason, his is reflux.  Have this, prescription for boxes of Gaviscon.

Now he is six months old and big, very big, above the norm for a child his age, let alone a child that should be only 4.5 months developmental (six weeks early).

Not everyone will have access to my Flickr stream, so here he is, happy, smiley little chap.

If your wondering,  Logan is named after Wolverine, Jarreth is the king of the goblins (Labyrinth).

So This was the scene this weekend.  Four passengers my wife, five year old son, 6 month old son and I.  We got hit at well its hard to estimate,  it felt like we were bounced across the road.  My five year old was sat at the point of impact and hit his head on the window. 

Before I continue.  Everyone is fine.  All of us, my son does have a small bump on his head but he’s had worse, I have a pain in the neck but how that was caused I can’t say. 

The other party phoned the police and someone went to the fire station and informed them there was a crash nearby involving a baby.  So after both of those it was bedlam, we had three police cars turn up (one went later) and a fire engine and an ambulance.  It was a little overkill but I was amazed and pleased at the speed of response we got.  The fire peeps must have not had another call to go to as they spent time checking everyone over before the paramedics arrived and our car to see if its drivable, or leaking!  Then one of the guys asked our little boy if he wanted to see in the fire engine.  He went in the back and saw the breathing things and they put the mask on him.  Which I have to admit was a really nice touch as he was really shook up by the whole thing and later said this was the worst day of his life.  So the services later dissipated and left us with the police and they took details and we drove back home. 

So I wonder what the NCAP rating for an Y reg clio. Considering the force of the impact and the amount of damage I’d say it was favourable. I wonder If it would be better in my ‘03 Mondeo (yes I own a ford and I love it (well this version the last version I despised)).

I think I can be thankful for ever increasing car safety.  I can be thankful it was a small car that hit us and not a huge truck (for those who say SUV, its a bloody truck).  I can be thankful for the emergency services.  I can be thankful everyone is ok.

Will I be thankful for insurance companies is to be seen.

One of the first things I looked for was animation along a path, I found some demos for WPF that did this and tried to do them in Silverlight.  Fell at the first hurdle.  Silverlight does not have this functionality, yet at least.  Why Silverlight does not have this in Alpha or beta, along with some rudimentary controls, auto-scaling with that view window thing I do not know.  But path animation missing? if your taking on flash you’d better get this sorted.

But for now I found this, Jaime Rodriguez has a tool to create motion path animations, well almost it creates key frames for the animation based on an equivalent WPF project that you can then cut and paste the xaml.

So for now this is great but MS hurry up and get some more features in, in under a 100k please.

Here is the link

I know its beta but I’ve had it a while now, and we all know the problem with the lack of content but the biggest problem I have is that of bandwidth.  Even though I ‘ve now moved to an ISP that doesn’t throttle, and its gone up to 2.5 connection joost just can’t hack it, even at the low res its transmitted at, the net is not ready for joost.  Jitter, or splutter would be a better name for it at the moment.

Anyone else finding the same ?

Sorry, changed ISP’s and forgot to reset web forwarding.

I’ve done this now and in 20 minutes it should work, if not and you cant wait please replace the www.tocker.co.uk with www.binaryjam.ukfsn.org and you will find it.

Hmmm it was also not putting in the extra / and lower-casing the  source code.  Watch for this, but I have changed some of the URLS.

Well that was smooth.  I signed up with UKFSN for broadband.  Got my mac from Plus.Net and the switchover was today and guess what it just worked.  No hiccups not support required it just worked.

But and heres the bonus some magical reason I got a 2.5mb line now and it works and it flies when Im rated at 512mb.

UKFSN also gave me all the web and mail access a week before so I could migrate files etc.   This needed some help as it was early. The ticket turnround was under two hours (mailed in) that might sound like a long time but when your used to seven ours plus its fantastic.  I’m yet to try telephone support so far with a 2 hr turnround I might never need to.

Well I did say take the code and run with it, and somebody did. 

Link Here

Ian Morrish has taken the webpart, deconstructed it a little and created a version that doesn’t require the whole installation on the server custom webpart thing.  Ian’s version uses the Data view webpart to render the various components of the PhotoViewer webpart. 

This demonstrates how flexible Sharepoint is with its funky built in parts but also how easy it is to take some Silverlight and have it work in a slightly different manner.

I just want to see how he’s implemented it now.

Sorry to labour the project now, but I thought it might be handy for anyone who wants to modify the look and feel of the Sharepoint/Silverlight photoviewer that its a little hard to do in a 2003 project.  So I thought I’d release the normal Silverlight “Blend” project so a designer can do a proper job on it.

Source Code can be found here

This is a Silverlight beta project.

UPDATE : ** RC1 SOURCE **

Technorati tags: Silverlight, photoviewer

I’m new to SAP and it blows, it doesn’t even have a built in “sql query executer”, you have to knock-up a simple program to test the queries.  But to help I found this now its purpose is more than that of a query writer, but an element of it is just that.  I love this.

But then as well as the query generator it generates all the output stuff too in the most complicated grid control ever devised the ALV grid.