Keeping an Eye on Earth

November 23rd, 2009

Over the past few months I have been part of an extremely exciting project, I am pleased that I am finally able to share it with you.
Eye On Earth is a new application that provides air and water quality to more than 500 million people across Europe, using both measurement stations and modelling data, along [...]

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Turning Off Silverlight without Uninstalling

November 20th, 2009

At various time during project I have found that when developing with Silverlight, I have wanted the browser to act as if Silverlight had not been installed on my machine.
This has primarily been to test out the welcome / install screen if the end user does not have Silverlight install. The easiest and quickest way [...]

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Eye on Earth – Video Demo

November 17th, 2009

As part of the Eye On Earth (link) launch today, we have a video demonstration of the project by Ludo de Bock  (Senior Director – Microsoft)along with a discussion about how the project can engage both European citizens and governments using real time environmental data by Rob Bernard (Chief Environmental Strategist – Microsoft) and Prof. [...]

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Eye on Earth – Project Launch

November 17th, 2009

After months of hard work the Eye On Earth project has been launched and released to the public (go take a look).
The project undertaken for the European Environmental Agency allows users to view and rate up to date environmental information about both the air and water quality around Europe, utilizing many bleeding edge technologies such [...]

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