Making your first Deep Zoom App

Deep Zoom is a manifestation of microsoft's open source technology for use in image viewing applications. This concept has revolutionized high resolution image viewing, specially on the internet where the loading time and size are important concerns. The silverlight deep zoom app provides a brilliant solution for this need, and yet it is extremely simple to create. Not only is it possible to view a lot of images on a single canvas, they can also be browsed and zoomed in / out in a seem-less manner.

Have you tasted the SIP yet ?

“Somebody reminded me the other night that I once said "greed is good." I swear I don't remember it but it sounds like something I would say in the eighties.” ~ Gordon Gekko, Money Never Sleeps

Investments today are all about growing your money steadily without giving bad luck a chance. High risk ventures and quick fortune schemes are forgotten tales, the present day investments are backed by concrete risk management and intensive market study. The markets have learnt a lot from the mistakes in the past and with every fall they come back stronger. After all, nobody wants to see another black Monday, nobody wants to be another Harshad Mehta.

Fire in the Hole

There was an era when the Islamic nations were so much synchronized in their ideologies that we gave them the ‘Islamic nations’ tag. There was a time, when the rulers of the Islamic world lived as absolute monarchs ruling their land for decades smoothly. People say that the time moves slowly in the Middle East, that Mubarak has ruled Egypt for 30 years, that Saddam had ruled Iraq for 24 years and that nothing has changed in Yemen since the times of Sindbad. But well, time is not a static phenomenon.

XLinq

Aloha ! So I’m back, this time to discuss how to query an xml document using LINQ, as I promised.