Web Site Performance improvements

I updated the site so that it performs better by adjusting the caching behavior and limiting the number of blog articles I pull for the front page.

I made the Showcase!!

My Cryptogram Game - Caesar Cipher made the Silverlight Showcase.
Here is a link to the Showcase: http://www.silverlight.net/showcase/

Cryptogram Game Updated

My Silverlight Game has been updated it now has a timer that records the best time when a cipher is beaten and when the cipher reloads it shows the best time.

Blogger Example

So I have a new example up where I demonstrate how I am consuming the Google Blogger feed and a simple JQuery tab control. Check it out Here

Silverlight Security

A friend at work refered me to this article by Nick Kramer on Silverlight security.

For general security considerations for Silverlight there is no better single source avilable currently. Silverlight really demonstrates how secure a software product can be if it follows a Secure development life cycle process.

Link to the blog post which contains the document and a short into to it from Nick.
http://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/archive/2010/03/19/updated-security-overview-for-silverlight-4-rc.aspx

Selecting a Unique value in a DFWP dropdown menu + passing it as a Query Param

To create a drop down menu with unique list values you must use xslt filtering on the row selection.



Idea applied from here - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/9b2464fc-1255-431e-8976-f4c9e44ec256/
Source quoted in that post here - http://blogs.msdn.com/timpash/archive/2005/11/23/XPATH-Filtering-Distinct-Values.aspx


Now that unique values are assured and we have nice drop down values. A change or selection listener has to be created.

I used the following resources to learn how to do this. Key take away the value has to be set for the selection. For what every reason Microsoft chose not to set it.

5 out of 5 - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/584a94dc-9f44-4dee-8e95-7d47fe8fcee5
Related in depth explanation 6 of 5 J - http://mdasblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/firing-an-event-when-a-user-selects-a-value-from-a-data-view-web-part-dropdown/
Another resource I reviewed: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointcustomization/thread/b75dcf23-a5de-4f1a-ba70-fccf44989bd7

Don’t forget to check if your user has made a selection. :)

Now that the change listener has been added a parameter can be added to manipulate another DFWP as desired.

Another good link - http://blogs.msdn.com/frontpoint/archive/2005/02/08/369249.aspx

Bloger Functionality is Live

Very Excited Blogger functionality is live. The Front page is now pulling from Google Blogger through the Atom feed. I have a backlog of posts that will be filling in content in various parts of the site. Through out the rest of the week.

Master Page Updated

Finished the update to the master page so now the Ceaser Cipher is now wraped with the master page. Check it out Here
I have a couple more updates to the game coming with an addition of a timer.

Caesar Cipher

My first Silverlight Application, Caesar Cipher, is now complete check it out in the Silverlight Section, Or Direct link to it Here.
I did find that I will need to update my master page to accommodate this app due to layout constraints, so it is hosted in htm page for now. Updating my masterpage will be my next task.