Developing Dane

Update 10/2016 - This posting is better viewed in my new blog . My first experience with a "browser" was Mosaic around 1994 in the Washington State University computer labs. I viewed it as a novel and somewhat intriguing toy but I wasn't overly impressed. Within a year I was sitting in a physics lab on the WSU campus browsing early web sites with Netscape and my head was fairly spinning with the implications of what I was finding openly available to anyone with a connection. Little did I know reality would soon far exceed my wildest imaginations. By 1997 I was attending graduate school at Oregon State University and the web was starting to become what it is today. I used the WWW every day and Netscape was the browser of choice for myself and almost everyone I knew. At that time Microsoft was in all kinds of trouble over Internet Explorer's OS integration and I thought of them as something just short Satan incarnate. Despite that stance I was using IE exclu

Update 10/2016 - This posting is better viewed in my new blog . I'm at work near the end of a long day. I spent almost the entire day writing documentation. As a developer I understand the absolute necessity of good documentation but good lord it's boring to write. I do derive a certain satisfaction out of a job well done when it's complete but it's so very painful during the process.

Update 10/2016 - This posting is better viewed in my new blog . I've fought it. I've kicked and screamed. I've ranted and raved. But all to no avail. It's over. Silverlight is dead. More's the pity. If only it could have gained more traction. If only Apple, Google and the other unknown forces would have adopted change more readily. But no, it's to be HTML/JS/CSS when it could have ALL been XAML backed by C#. You win anonymous forces. You've forced standardization of an inferior model. Thanks a lot.