Let's Go Around Back, Where We Can't See Them

OMG, this is hilarious.

Fancy Footwork

I'm not a big soccer fan. Nor am I a big Microsoft fan. But I saw this Microsoft video that has these soccer highlights and was pretty impressed. Here you go...

Silverlight Tutorial - Image Button w/ TemplateBinding

** This post is not for my usual readers - you will be bored to tears. This post is for Silverlight Designers and Developers. **

I have been trying to figure how to make an image button in Silverlight that can use TemplateBinding to switch out the image. There seems to not be any clear instructions or tutorials out there, but I finally figured it out, so now I would like to share this extremely useful bit of information with you.

Below is a video/screencast of how to do it, but first I will just give you a brief description.

1. Create a button
2. Edit Template Style
3. Put and image inside the Content Presenter
4. In the XAML, select the Image and change it's Source to "{TemplateBinding Content}"
5. Back on the main stage, type the image path inside of the Content field (Properties Panel)
6. That's it (to add text, go back in the button and add a TextBox or ContentPresenter and set it's TemplateBinding to the "Tag" field and enter text there from the main stage

More Stop Motion Awesomeness

These Ants are Freakin Me Out, Man

Fearless

Heard this old Pink Floyd song today. I haven't heard it in so long... What a great song.

Degenerative Auto-Repair Syndrome

I think I have contracted Degenerative Auto-Repair Syndrome. The older I get, the less I am able (or willing) to do on a car. I used to be able to do almost anything. No challenge was too daunting, no bolt too tight, no axle too greasy. But the last two times I've had my car up on jacks, I've actually backed out and threw in the towel.

Today, I was under the car, taking off the starter and I started thinking that I wasn't totally sure that when I got it off, if I could put the new one on. Then I started thinking about other things that I could be doing, like sitting on the couch eating my leftover meatball sandwich and watching UFC. (the sandwich is in the toaster oven as I am typing this).

And the time before this, I had the car all jacked up to replace the brake pads, I had even gone to the store and bought the pads and then something just clicked. My interest level had dropped to zero and I just stared at the brake discs for a while, lowered the car back down and drove it to the mechanic shop down the hill. And I've changed brakes many times on many cars.

Pretty soon, the only thing I'll be good for is an oil change.