Site Archives for August 2007


Added Support for Soapbox Videos on Channel 9

Posted on August 29th

When I started on the C9 dev team, one of the first things I did was to remove the ability for users to post embed, object and script tags. We had a couple of people abusing this feature and I wanted to lock it right down. The downside to this move was that it prevented some forms of user interactio […]

Overlaying HTML over Silverlight

Posted on August 28th

In the new code that we are building for Channel 9, we have a few HTML popups here and there... floating divs for user info being one example. At the same time as we've been adding that feature, we also moved from using Windows Media Player to using Silverlight as our video player. […]

XSLT and Alternating Rows

Posted on August 17th

Saw this today (it is over a year old though) on Roger Hartford's blog; […]

Xbox Dad article on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is up

Posted on August 14th

I was a bit surprised to find that I enjoyed this game, although I enjoyed the last few books in the series and the latest movie, I really figured the game would only appeal to kids. The pace is slower than most adult/teen games, but that makes it into more of an exploration instead of just quickly […]

Zune for Dummies hits the bookstores

Posted on August 13th

Brian was in town a few days ago and we ended up at a local bookstore... of […]