July 2008 - Posts
I just gave a talk at Microsoft TechReady covering how to build Facebook applications that host Silverlight content. One problem I ran into was the changing Facebook API and how the toolkit wasn’t yet synchronized with that. Well, just today, the Facebook
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I’ve been doing a bunch lately with aggregating various technical blogs and surfacing the content through Silverlight and Facebook . While doing that, I ran into a number of challenges and figured out ways that folks can work around them to make their
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I’ve interviewed a large number of people over the past 12+ years at Applied Information Sciences. I’m generally not interested in people who just want a job. I want people who love technology and programming (or some part of software development). I
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The Uncanny Valley is that interesting little dip in our reaction to near-human movement and appearance. It shows that the more human-like something becomes, the more we notice that it is not human. An example of this is a cartoon vs. something like the
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A similar question just popped up on a list I’m on, so I thought I’d whip up a quick example on how to resize a Silverlight application while keeping the same aspect ratio and centering the content. The key to resizing is to use a ScaleTransform
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For those of you working with Silverlight 2 , are you also working on WPF projects? If so, what types of things are you building in WPF? Are you sharing source and/or team talent across the two technologies? What about readers doing only one or the other?
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