Brett Gilbert

Archive for the ‘Useful Links’ Category

Web Development process, tools and links

Monday, September 19th, 2011

My basic process for converting a PSD into an HTML page begins by slicing out all the images. As I go through the PSD, this helps me build out the structure in my head, how this container holds that element, etc. This also helps me streamline my work flow. My next step is to build [...]

WPF Screensaver Tips

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Use this link if you want to stretch your Screensaver Across all screens. Basically stretching your primary window across the Virtural Screen. The Project was to build a Screensaver based on a set of Silverlight animations. A couple of links that made this possible: http://scorbs.com/2006/12/21/wpf-screen-saver-template/ Even though this is from 2006 the fundamentals still hold [...]

Silverlight 4 – Loading an XML file and packaging it in the XAP

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

After hours and hours of using the google machine to figure out how to load an XML file into my Silverlight app, a former colleague pointed me to the most likely of places – the Silverlight Quick start guide. C# Solution: // Load the RSS file into XElement and display the content of the XML [...]

HTML vs XHTML

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

A concise definition of HTML vs XHTML. http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articles/askw3c/oct2003/