The Mindjet Labs

When building Silverlight 2 projects in Visual Studio 2008 I found that I was getting errors on building the ASP.net page: Unknown Server Tag 'asp:Silverlight' It turns out that I was getting the error because my project was on a network drive. ...(read more)

If you've ever wanted to know what a web hoster's data center looks like, I was able to have Bob Cichon, the President of CrystalTech , take me and my video camera on a tour of theirs in Scottsdale, Arizona. ...(read more)

I just got a note from Patrick Tran at Reborn Studio about the performance they were getting out of ASP.Net and SQL Server for a site they built, WebRidesTV.com .  If you remember, I interviewed Patrick and his business partner Michael Marina on...(read more)

If you remember last year when Google announced OpenSocial , I created a simple application for Orkut (Google's OpenSocial container built with ASP.Net) that showed how to put Silverlight into an OpenSocial application. Well, a few days ago, MySpace announced...(read more)

At a recent user group meeting, one of the developers brought up an issue where he was getting slow loading time for a page and wondered how he could troubleshoot and fix it. I asked my colleagues and here are some links that they provided: Try tracing...(read more)

One thing that I find very refreshing is that people with software development backgrounds are gravitating to Silverlight development.  With that, you can get great application architecture on top of great interaction!  Take a look how my colleague, Bob Familiar deconstructs a Silverlight Media Player application that he built. What ...

I have just launched a new web service that anyone can use that shows a thumbnail image of a map given its URL. To use it on a web page, add the following code: <img src = 'http://mindjetlabs.com/MapResearch/MapImage.aspx?map=http://mapurl.mmap' /> where the map parameter is the URL of your map. This should work with any browser ...