February 2008 - Posts
As a follow-up to his introduction to Silverlight 2, Scott Guthrie just posted a great article on using Expression Blend 2.5 to create Silverlight 2 applications. I really like Blend, but I wish the Xaml editor had intellisense and a few other niceties
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This is absolutely awe-inspiring. When I was little, my favorite show was Carl Sagan's COSMOS on PBS (WGBH Channel 2, Boston). I even remember one day when I was sick, my mum brought a small TV into my room so I could still watch COSMOS that evening.
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One of my other hobbies is woodworking (my whole upstairs is one big project right now). Thought this was funny, but I doubt I can wear it to any client sites <g>: Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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A recurring problem that both Silverlight and Flash developers have to deal with is the volatility of the browser. One place where this can really hurt you is if, for example, you want to pop up a donation page or other straight browser content at the
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This is something I just don't get. The iPhone is arguably one of the most expensive phones you can buy. Granted, it has a great user interface, but at $500-$600, it's pretty expensive for a locked phone. I personally find the phone (from my limited use)
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I hope you're as excited about Silverlight 2 as I am! If you haven't checked it out yet, Scott Guthrie just posted a great article and a huge multi-part tutorial for building a Silverlight 2 application to pull Digg results back via REST. He shows off
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Sometimes you get so caught up in the complexity of an overall problem or solution, that you miss the simplest error even when it is staring you right in the face. So, the other day, I was working on some c# code for a personal project I'll post here
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Scott just provided some more details on Silverlight 2. This is going to be a great spring :) Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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WPF and Silverlight applications cover a whole spectrum of application types and richness from incredible full-screen applications incorporating 3d and video to games to good old standard (but highly usable and attractive) business applications . It's
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The first real 3d modeling tool I used was one of the earlier Windows versions of trueSpace . While I was never impressed with the rendering engine back then (it has improved over the years) I really cut my teeth on modeling using that tool. The workspace
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Michael Sherotter ( Synergist ) created a nice Silverlight 1.0 sample showing how to use the videobrush to create a zoomable magnifying glass over video. For more details on how it was built, be sure to register for his webcast . Share this post: Email
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This is an addictive Silverlight 1.0 game: Zombomatic Try it out , but make sure you have nothing else to do for a little bit first :) Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Early in my programming career, we had a choice to make at the beginning of each project: do we do this as a command-line/console app (prompt and response), use a DOS windowing library, or do a Windows 3 native app? Eventually, it became the norm to do
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I always enjoy MIX; it's my favorite conference. I used to look forward to the PDC, but I'd only really enjoy the UI technology-related sessions there anyway. This morning, Scott Guthrie posted a couple of interview videos which cover what's
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