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How Open Banking is reshaping the sector

I wrote recently about what the future holds for Open Banking in the US. But what about the UK? We’re now over five years into the Open Banking era in the UK. How is it reshaping the banking sector, and what’s coming next?
Andrew Carr · 20th  Mar · 5 min read
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Something in the Wind: Weather Forecasting in the Age of AI

Accurate weather forecasting helps us make decisions every day, from the trivial to the critical. I take a look at the technology that goes into predicting the weather, and consider how the AI revolution could change that.
Peter Ling · 6th  Mar · 8 min read
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Custom data tips in stacked Flex charts
The number of frustrating decisions in Flex's charting API is minimal, but high up on my list is a strange decision that prevents developers from accessing information that is frequently desirable for custom data tips in stacked area, bar and column charts.
Graham Odds · 24th  Mar 2009 · 2 min read
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Adding a Location Crosshair to Silverlight charts (again!)
Silverlight is moving fast. Really fast.
Colin Eberhardt · 23rd  Mar 2009 · 4 min read
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Silverlight 3 is here! (but is it a flash killer yet?)
Less than 24 hours ago Microsoft's MIX09 conference kicked of in Las Vegas with Silverlight 3 taking centre stage.
Colin Eberhardt · 19th  Mar 2009 · 2 min read
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Using CSS Selectors for Styling in WPF
When I first encountered WPF I was really impressed by its styling and templating features which are more powerful than anything else I had previously seen for desktop software development.
Colin Eberhardt · 11th  Mar 2009 · 6 min read
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Save Flex chart as image
The ability to allow a user to save a Flex chart, or in fact any Flex UI component, as an image has popped up on my radar several times over the last few years.
Graham Odds · 4th  Mar 2009 · 1 min read
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Implementing RelativeSource binding in Silverlight
In my previous post I demonstrated how an the WPF ElementName style binding can be emulated with Silverlight via an attached behaviour.
Colin Eberhardt · 27th  Feb 2009 · 6 min read
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ElementName binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviours
As a relative newcomer to Silverlight I was happily greeted by the warm feeling of familiarity when I started developing.
Colin Eberhardt · 22nd  Feb 2009 · 7 min read
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Styling hard-to-reach elements in control templates with attached behaviours
OK, the title of this blog post is not very snappy, but it is not an easy problem to describe in a few short words.
Colin Eberhardt · 10th  Feb 2009 · 4 min read
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Adding a Location Crosshair to Silverlight Charts
This blog post describes how to add a location crosshair to your Silverlight charts.
Colin Eberhardt · 4th  Feb 2009 · 5 min read
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BindingGroups for Total View Validation
Over the weekend Sacha published a new article on codeproject, Total View Validation (does Sacha ever sleep?).
Colin Eberhardt · 26th  Jan 2009 · 4 min read
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WPF DataGrid - Committing changes cell-by-cell
In my recent codeproject article on the DataGrid I described a number of techniques for handling the updates to DataTables which are bound to the grid.
Colin Eberhardt · 21st  Jan 2009 · 2 min read
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LayoutTransform vs. RenderTransform - What's the Difference?
I have answered a few forum posts about the WPF transforms recently, mostly regarding confusion between RenderTransform and LayoutTransform.
Colin Eberhardt · 19th  Dec 2008 · 1 min read
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WPF DataGrid - detecting the column, cell and row that has been clicked
The WPF DataGrid is a very flexible tool, however in its current state certain simple tasks can prove to be rather tricky.
Colin Eberhardt · 2nd  Dec 2008 · 4 min read
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Using BindingGroups for greater control over input validation
In a recent post on his blog Josh Smith described a technique for providing more meaningful error messages when the type conversion process fails within the binding framework.
Colin Eberhardt · 28th  Nov 2008 · 5 min read
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Design time drag-and-drop binding is on its way
In my opinion the lack of decent design-time tool support is currently hampering the adoption of WPF, that and the relatively small number of controls available to the developer out-of-the-box.
Colin Eberhardt · 27th  Nov 2008 · 1 min read
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Multiselect DataGrid with CheckBoxes
I am currently very interested in the new WPF DataGrid which was released on codeplex recently.
Colin Eberhardt · 26th  Nov 2008 · 2 min read
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Welcome to my blog, Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in WPF. This page gives a little background on myself and the blog.
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