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The spreadsheet market has been stagnant for a long, long time. Excel at its core has been fundamentally the same for the last 10 years. OpenOffice's spreadsheet tool just blindly copied it, and Google Sheets is just a dumbed down, otherwise uninteresting wannabe. DabbleDB however is a fresh look at how spreadsheets should work. I've long ...

For a lot of people, Web 2.0 is a buzzword, i.e. used to "impress people with the pretence of knowledge" [Wikipedia]. There are snake oil salesmen in every bazaar, but there really is a wow factor at the core of Web 2.0 -- Web 2.0 is what I call a transformational principle, or more simply, a transformer, in that it requires a step ...

Hmm. This works:   <Rectangle x:Name="MyAnimatedRectangle" Canvas.Left="100" Canvas.Top ="100" Width="100" Height="100" Fill="Blue"> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="MyAnimatedRectangle" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Width" From="200" ...

I've caught the WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere ) buzz and so I decided to start playing with it. As it happens I have all the right tools: I've done a lot of javascript programming recently, I have Visual Studio 2005 installed, and I downloaded the cross platform browser plugin and SDK bits ...

I'm a muso at heart; I do composition when I can (see my music site for recent work). I came upon Jamglue which looked to be quite fun. 'Music remixing for the rest of us' they say. Below I write about my experiences, some of the things that work, and some that don't work so well. In essence, Jamglue is a 'Web 2.0 RIA' ...