After spending last week at SHiFT'08 Conference in Lisbon I must say that it surprised me a lot being surrounded by such a great amount of people and speakers. I participated in the conference delivering a workshop about DeepZoom during the first day of the conference, the presentation is also uploaded to my Slideshare account and the content used in PhotoSynth was uploaded to my synth account.

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A couple of days ago, I was watching this small Silverlight vs. Flash: Stray Sheep sample and perceived something strange in the rendering. If you pay attention to the Silverlight implementation you'll notice that the sheep gets blurry in one of the frames. So, as many of my clients asked me a lot of times about this issue with bitmaps in Silverlight and WPF applications, I'll try to explain the technology concept behind this "undesired" side-effect of device rendering.

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After upgrading my site to the latest version (1.4) of BlogEngine I guess it's time to release this little piece of code so everyone can include in their own installations. The thing is simple, TwitterPing 1.0 is an extension that tweets out when you publish a new post in your blog. It sends a message through your Twitter account with the title of the post and the URL, preceded with a tag (configured to [blog] by default) that can be edited in the configuration settings.

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