January 2008 - Posts
Mike Wolf will be speaking at CMAP this coming Tuesday. The topic is: "UX is the new UI: It's not the framework, it's how you use it" Abstract from Mike's blog : As developers we love our frameworks and the elegance of code. Yet
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During the Q&A in Reston, Marc and I mentioned a few places of interest. The Silverlight Deployment Document . The Silverlight Showcase on Silverlight.net Tim Sneath's blog on Silverlight 2.0 Scott Guthrie's blog with some details on Silverlight 2.0
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I'm honored and pleased that three of us from Applied Information Sciences ( Vishwas Lele , Frank La Vigne and me) have been chosen by Dr Z from Microsoft to be members of the inaugural group of Mid-Atlantic Influential Architects . There are a lot
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Microsoft is presenting Silverlight for Developers in Reston tonight and in DC tomorrow night. Microsoft DPE will deliver some great content, and I've been asked to give some real-world experience closing remarks at both events. Hope to see you there!
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The Silverlight Showcase is a great site for sampling what folks are doing in the current production release of Silverlight. If you haven't been there in a while, you might be surprised at the number of attractive, compelling Silverlight 1.0 applications
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I finally decided to take a pop at using Windows Live Writer to write for my blog. While Community Server has a reasonable editor, it is an online in-browser editing experience and can suffer from the usual shortcomings that architecture has. Creating
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Silverlight lacks the bitmap effects that are commonly used in WPF applications. Most can be simulated using pngs, but some can also be simulated using xaml. The example below shows a passable (but not perfect) drop shadow effect that relies only on vector
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If you are in the greater NYC area, don't miss this month's Microsoft Silverlight Firestarter. It's all happening Saturday January 26th I did the keynote and expression sessions at the Philly firestarter and had a blast. The speakers for the
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At AIS (Applied Information Sciences), I am a Project/Engagement Manager, Architect, and self-proclaimed Client Platforms Evangelist (Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight etc.). The last bit evolved because my background is in UX/human factors, and I'm
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When I got back to my house from the Silverlight 2.0 TAP event in Redmond last week, it was about 4:00 am (love those airline delays). I dumped most of my stuff in a pile, and went to bed. The next day, I remember asking for my jacket to be washed as
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Siverlight is now available as an optional download via Windows Update. This will make it easier for administrators to install within the enterprise. Yet another potential barrier removed. from: Tim Sneath Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg
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I'm really looking forward to goint to MIX again this year. It's coming up quickly! I went to MIX both in ' 06 (remember "You've got to know your chicken"?) and ' 07 . If you have never been to MIX, this is like the PDC for
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I was in Redmond all last week for a Silverlight meeting. My connecting flight from Denver to Baltimore was delayed so many times that it was around 3:00am when I exited the concourse at BWI and passed through security on my way out. I always like to
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Seema Ramchandani gave a talk back at ReMIX07 in Boston which conflicted with my "Real World Silverlight" talk, so I unfortunately didn't get to see her then. However, she just gave a talk this week in Redmond. In that talk, she showed how
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Scott Guthrie just announced the release of the .NET 3.5 source code. WPF and Windows forms are included in the list of DLLs. WF and others will be coming. As is often the case, his replies to the comments contain even more interesting information, including
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My server at home (which hosts this blog and my main web site) is on the fritz due to too many beta products installed, and the welcome but unexpected increase in traffic caused by my Silverlight 2.0 post from the 8th . Unfortunately, I'm at a Silverlight
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This is a great example of what a real business-oriented WPF (and by extension, Silverlight 2.0) application can look like. Battleship gray this is not. The look and feel is beautiful, the visual feedback slick, and the workflow simple and appropriate.
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Now this is cool Michael Scherotter (Synergist) is doing a webcast on how to create a Workflow Foundation (WF) activity for encoding video. If you're trying to do any automated media submission workflows on your site (a la YouTube), this is a nice
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I previously blogged about why I stopped coding in Silverlight 1.1 . I want to make it clear that that is in no way an indictment of that technology. It's just that I've learned from it what I wanted to and have moved on. While I find 1.0 great
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You may have noticed that I stopped putting Silverlight 1.1 code out on my blog and stopped talking about 1.1 at local events. I even keynoted the Silverlight FireStarter back in December and barely mentioned 1.1 in the process (I think it rated one slide).
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I'm pleased and excited to announce that I just received the 2008 MVP Award (Visual Developer - Client Application Development) particularly for my work around Silverlight. This, especially when combined with the success we had in getting AIS into
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