Author Archives: spacescape

CSS and HTML coder, Silverlight and XAML Blender, Photoshop and Fireworks user, and fan of all things semantic, philanthropic, aesthetic and logic(al).

The Multipack Presents… Emerging Standards

By spacescape | February 22, 2009

A very insightful, forward thinking set of talks in a great location, with informal and interactive atmosphere.
Or “A great day geeking out”.
This was the first of a more formal series of events put on by the Multipack community of web professionals in Birmingham, and my first time attending, having only recently discovered them via the [...]

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Reboot!

By spacescape | February 21, 2009

Awesome… I’ve finally got a new look for space-scape.
The theme you’re looking at is something of an evolutionary leap from my old site; last updated over 5 years ago and still visible for the moment at www.space-scape.co.uk to give you some context.  In fact, as a special treat - take a look at my first [...]

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Reducing Silverlight XAP file size

By spacescape | February 18, 2009

I’ve recently spent some time looking around for information on reducing the size of the compiled XAP file for our Silverlight web app.  We have a fairly hefty solution which compiles into a XAP of around 2.5meg.  Given the size and complexity of the app – that’s not a bad starting point, and I’m still [...]

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Tim Berners-Lee: The Johannes Gutenberg of the next 500 years?

By spacescape | February 17, 2009

Shortly after FOWD last year, I was inspired to revamp my site, and start a blog (yes - this one, almost a year later!)  Around this time, I caught a documentary presented by the inimitable Mr Stephen Fry about the printing press inventor Johannes Gutenberg.
It’s an excellent bit of presenting, and a great insight into [...]

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A Blog, at last…

By spacescape | February 10, 2009

So after over 5 years of stagnation, the old space-scape has been retired and I have finally got around to setting myself up with a blog.  As with more or less everyone who starts blogging; I hope to make a regular (ish), and worthwhile contribution to the noisy wall of information that is the internet.
We [...]

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