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• Busy times, we're hiring

  Published: July 17, 2007, 6:26 pm

  Tags: Mindscape, Windows, Business

  with so much going on with Mindscape and life in general. The good news is that we have recently elected to expand our team to help ensure we continue to deliver (if you are interested check out the position information here). I’ll be delivering two lunch time sessions at TechEd this year, one regarding unit testing and another about how

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• Remix part III

  Published: June 26, 2007, 2:12 am

  Tags: Mindscape, Microsoft, Events

  Today is day two of Remix so lets recap what has happened so far. Yesterday was my first presentation which I felt went pretty well and I got some good questions at the end of the session. There seems to much more interest in developing Web Parts with .NET 2.0 so most of the questions revolved around that. Thanks to everyone that came to that. The

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• Remix part II

  Published: June 24, 2007, 10:44 pm

  Tags: Mindscape, Microsoft, Events

  This morning is the first official day of Remix and we’ve just completed the key note and first round of sessions. The content presented so far has been top notch and certainly things are looking bright for UX in the Microsoft space based on what I’ve seen. The keynote was enjoyable, good spread of speakers showing what has been done

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• Remix part I

  Published: June 24, 2007, 1:32 am

  Tags: Mindscape, Microsoft, Events

  Today we kicked off the rehearsals for Remix that's happening here in Melbourne on Monday and Tuesday. The event so far is shaping up really well, I've had a chance to meet with some of the other speakers and the content so far looks to be right up there. Yesterday I had to depart from Wellington at 6am as it was the only direct flight and arrived

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• BackgroundMotion.com is live!

  Published: June 18, 2007, 11:56 pm

  Tags: Mindscape, Microsoft

  We flipped the big switch earlier this week to launch backgroundmotion.com! We spoke a lot about this website at the technical events hosted by Microsoft earlier in the year and how we developed it within three weeks (excluding some subsequent additions as things such as SilverLight popped up on the radar :)). So what is BackgroundMotion?

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• Basic querying with LightSpeed

  Published: June 11, 2007, 5:39 pm

  Tags: Mindscape, Tools, Code, Net

  In my previous post about LightSpeed I discussed setting up a very basic LightSpeed instance but didn’t go into any detail about working with the data once we had configured it. In this post we’ll have a look at some basic ways of performing CRUD actions on our database through LightSpeed. Creating Objects To create an object we simply

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• Getting started with Mindscape LightSpeed

  Published: June 10, 2007, 8:33 pm

  Tags: Mindscape, Tools, Code, Net

  easy. using System; using Mindscape.LightSpeed;   namespace Mindscape.Carbon.Core.Configuration public class ConfigurationItem: Entity<guid> public enum ConfigValueType STRING, INT, COLOR   private string _referenceName; private string _value; private ConfigValueType

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• We shipped LightSpeed 1.0!

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Mindscape, Tools

  Late Friday last week we pushed LightSpeed 1.0 out the door for everyone to poke and prod! I’m really pleased with what has been produced and have had some great feedback to date about the performance, elegance of the API and generally great feedback. As much fun as we had celebrating the occasion of shipping our first product we’re

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• Technology doesn't matter - solving problems does

  Published: December 4, 2007, 4:27 pm

  Tags: General, Mindscape, Rant, Theory, Upgrades

  I be saying this when we at Mindscape were pumping out solutions based on LINQ to SQL 9 months before it even RTMs? We all speak about upcoming changes in the new releases of SQL 2008, Windows Server 2008. Heck, Jeremy has even been training folks on how to use Windows Server 2008 a year before it comes out. So what’s the story? I believe

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• Mindscape ships the WPF Property Grid

  Published: January 22, 2008, 5:54 pm

  Tags: Net, Mindscape, Windows

  We announced on the Mindscape blog that the WPF Property Grid is now available to download, trial and purchase. The trial includes many samples that go into detail on creating new styles for the grid which is important as one of the benefits of being based on WPF is the ability to create any style that you can think of. Ivan has posted a

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• We shipped LightSpeed 1.2

  Published: February 5, 2008, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Net, Mindscape, 1 2, Lightspeed, Release

  this week Mindscape shipped version 1.2 of LightSpeed, our domain modeling and O/R Mapper. I always love the feeling of making a new release, the feedback and knowing that people are able to work more efficiently because of it is great. This is a significant release and so far all feedback has been really positive about the changes: More

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• Mindscape - 1 year in

  Published: February 17, 2008, 4:52 pm

  Tags: Business, Mindscape

  hard to believe that Mindscape has been trading for a year today! It feels like just yesterday we were setting up the office, stocking the fridge with coke and ordering chairs (which incidentally arrived about a week after the desks!). I thought I’d make a post about my views on the year that has passed. Rod recently mentioned that

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• Sexy stats - heatmaps for everyone

  Published: February 18, 2008, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Mindscape, Tools, Crazyegg, Heatmap, Stats

  of a forum page from the Mindscape site: What sort of things can you learn? Well, from my experience, I’ve learnt the following: Anywhere that you write “free” tends to attract clicks. I don’t have that currently hyperlinked to a download page so I should change that to increase conversions Continuing the trend of

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• Nightly builds - see the future

  Published: February 19, 2008, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Apple, Mindscape, Tools, Firefox, Nightlies, Webkit

  off all our software at Mindscape. This is important because, as stated earlier, it allows people to test against new features, get access to new features we may be working on etc. We’ve enhanced this process for our customers by allowing them to access nightly builds based on what they own. That means that people who have bought the

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• Amusing feature requests

  Published: April 6, 2008, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Code, Mindscape, Features, Funny, Lightspeed, Querying, Software Development

  requests for our products at Mindscape. For one, it’s interesting just seeing how users are trying to use the products you have built - often in ways you never imagined. I got one such request a month or so back which made me smile so I thought I’d share it. I received the following diagram: Effectively the diagram states: Query box

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