Johann Montfort

As the days are getting colder here in Brussels and the daylight is dimming, I have decided to spend some time working on a project I have shelved for quite some time, which is a Fantasy Soccer Management System.  I have decided to use Silverlight 4.0,  RIA services, Entity Framework and LINQ to do this project.  You may question the motif behind this choice.  Its maybe still a bit risky to use Silverlight, because of its reach.  However, I wish to get to know more abouth Silverlight and RIA services, and I thought the best would be to work on a “real” project and find out the pros and cons of this technology.

I intend to keep updating this blog with the development of this application, including milestones, problems and features I will come up with.  The first beta version of this project should be launched around the end of December, permitting on other projects I have going on at the moment.

So if you are interested in this project, be sure to keep following my blog, and all feedback is very much appreciated.  I will also keep this updated through my twitter account, so make sure to follow me on twitter.

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Ilbierah fis-7:45pm t’hawnhekk intfajt nara il loghba Lille – Utd, kif naghmel kull darba li jkun hemm ic Champions League.

Bhala loghba nahseb kienet dominate ghal hafna hinijiet mil Utd, fej kellhom bosta opportunitajiet ta skor specjalment Ronaldo, Larsonn, Giggs u Rooney. U meta dahal Saha flok Ronaldo, li jien ma qbiltx ma din is sostituzzjoni ghax Ron kien qed jilghab loghba tajba hafna, kompla jizdied il potenzjal fl-attakk. Il lille, taqta lil Bodmer u lil dak in Nigerjan, ma kellhom xej specjali u nahseb il gowler taghhom Sylva kien l-eroj meta zammhom ghal hafna hin fil loghba.

Il gowls
Fuq il gowls hemm hafna polemiki. Il gowl tal-Lille li gie mhassar, jekk kien ikun hemm 100 referee, 60 minnhom kienu jikkonvalidawh u 40 le. Kienet purament decizjoni ta split second. Ir replays urew li kien hemm imbuttatura fuq Vidic, pero naraw hafna minn dawn ukoll, u hafna drabi il gowls jigu konvalidati. Pero il lajnsmen kien f’pozizzjoni tajba u dehrlu li jahssar il gowl. Fuq il gowl tal-Utd, nahseb kien gust li thalla. Kif qal Ray Houghton fuq il kummentarju tal-NTL, it-tim li qed jattakka jigi favorit f’daw is-sitwazzjonijiet. Fl-opinjoni tieghi, la Lille ma talbux it-tisfira tar-referee, ghalinqas hekk deher, Giggs kellu kull dritt li jaghtih mil ewwel.

Sigurta
Kif wiehed seta jara, is-sigurta kienet fjakka hafna u nirringrazzjaw l-Alla li ma nqalax xi massakru iehor tipo Heysel. Kif wiehed seta jara minn fuq it-tv, kien hemm mument li is-supporters tal-Utd kienu ippakkjati qishom ‘sardines’. Ma tistax tigini f’halqi il kelma Maltija. Biex tkompli taxxaq, il puluzija sprejaw il gass tad-dmugh u iktar iggravaw is-sitwazzjoni. Dan sahansitra affettwa lil Van Der Saar li moment minnhom kien anke deher li seta jinbidel meta Kusack bed ail warming up. Is supporters inglizi maghrufin ghal huliganizmu taghhom, pero xi hag hekk zgur li tirribellahom iktar! Skond kif qalu ir-rapporti, dan gara ghax infethu il gates tas-sezzjoni fej kien hemm is supporters tar-red devils, u dan iggrava is-sitwazzjoni. Nahseb jekk ma jkunx hemm penalizzazzjoni kbira, il UEFA tkun qed timxi ‘2 ways 2 measures’. Biex ma nghidux ukoll li wara il gowl ta Giggs, bdew jintefaw ‘missili’ gol grawnd u mument minnhom kien se jbati minnha Gary Neville.

Farsa
Biex ikomplu ikabbru il farsa tejatrali, il plejers tal-Lille iddecidew li huma ikbar mir-referee u war ail gowl ta Giggs dehrlu li se jabbandunaw il grawnd. Skond ic-cermen tal-Lille, hemm ligi fi Franza li jekk il-plejers jew il kowc jidrilhom li kien hemm decizjoni harxa maghhom, jistaw johrogu mil grawnd, biex ir-referee jigi sostitwit mir-raba ufficjal. Jekk veru tezisti din il ligi, veru ligi tal-gungla.

Nahseb din il partita se tibqa miftakra aktar ghal affarjiet li graw fuq l-istands u l-kummidji Lilljaniti milli ghar-rebha meritata tal-Utd.

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Another nice page in the History of Maltese soccer. On the 50th Anniversary of our first match in 1957, against the same team Austria, we managed to get a draw on our own soil. Gilbert Agius was our scorer as early as the 8th minute! Andreas Ivanshintz levelled the score, and we were unlucky not to finish the game as the winning side, when a good solo run by Micheal Mifsud ended just over the bar.

Hopefully, this series of encouraging results will continue in our next games against Moldova away and Greece at home.

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