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Welcome to The Silver Method
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Wed Dec 23th 2009
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Brett
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The Silver Method is a site discussing technology generally related to the Microsoft stack. Specifically technologies such as Silverlight, WPF, WCF and Windows Azure are frequently discussed. In addition to blog posts specific projects are called out on the site that might have long-term appeal to readers of the site. I intend this site to serve as a reference to the community and hope that people find it interesting and helpful. I should also note that I am an independent consultant not affiliated with Microsoft.
The Author - Brett Balmer
I am a software developer and general technology enthusiast who has worked for and owned several software development companies. My first company was called Scout Solutions and we sold a product called Aptus which was a Customer Relationship Managment (CRM) application targeted toward law firms. Aside from the business value the product provided - Aptus broke new ground in what is now commonly referred to as AJAX. Originally written in ASP backed by a VB6 object model I hand wrote my own XML "webservice" layer through which our client-side jscript library communicated. While this is a common practice today, back in 1999 few were architecting their applications this way. In fact we utilized a little used feature of IE 4 called DHTML behaviors which allowed code to be attached to HTML objects via a CSS reference. Ultimately Scout was purchased by our larger competitor, Interface Software which ultimately became part of Lexis Nexis where I served as director of technology for several years.
Ultimately I grew eager for some new ground up projects and began consulting (and continue to do so) over the last several years. I recently have worked on a number of projects based on SharePoint 2007, WPF and also Silverlight. Silverlight is a technology that really excites me given my roots in web based application development. The blood, sweat and tears that used to be required for a marginally rich UI are a thing of the past when working with Silverlight.
I have also recently started an pc energy management company called SetPower. SetPower, the principal product, allows you to configure schedules by which the power plans of your computer conform to. We got the idea for the product because, being very energy consious individuals, we grew annoyed with having to constantly wake our machines when they were configured to go to sleep on idle. Our desire was to enact the power saver plan after working hours and keep our machines in high performance during the day. SetPower was born, and is a free product for non-business users. We have an enterprise version as well that allows for central management of power plans, reporting of power savings, and even remote wake capabilites in case you need to wake your sleeping machine for remote access.
Even though the app is brand new we estimate that the free version has already saved folks $700,000 and many thousand tons of carbon emissions.
You can reach me here: bbalmer -at- setpowersoftware.com
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