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• Rant - Mesh is going to be HUGE!

  The last time I was excited about a new technology was about a year and a half ago with Silverlight, it was so new and fresh and offered such promise. I can now say, personally speaking, that the same things can be said about Mesh. It will ultimately... Posted Apr 27 2008, 08:32 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Technology, Mesh

• My "Digg Mashup" that taught me so much about Silverlight 2.0 beta - part 1

  The mashup began by me wanting to write a feed reader type of application end-to-end with Silverlight. Basically I wanted to really see if Silverlight could handle a real RIA scenario. I wanted to utilize a lot of features in Silverlight that I knew would... Posted Apr 13 2008, 07:13 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology

• How to make a spiral xaml asset with Design

  This is going to be a simple post BUT I thought I’d share it because I have been racking my brain for so long trying to work out how to do something like this in pure xAML. This shows why design is just as important to the UX toolset as blend is... Posted Mar 24 2008, 10:34 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Design, Technology

• Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 - Windows Media Player redone

  A couple of months ago I recreated the Windows Media Player interface using Blend and Silverlight 1.1 alpha refresh, I wired up the UI so that it behaved similar to the actual application. It had a lot of code in the code behind that managed the resizing... Posted Mar 17 2008, 05:23 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

• Silverlight Control Contracts Diagram - For Skinning

  After skinning my nth control I got fed up with continually referring to the MS source code via reflector and made up my own diagram with all the control contracts in them. Print it out and stick it up on your work wall, hopefully you guys find it useful... Posted Mar 16 2008, 12:01 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology

• Skinning a Button - 4 different ways and counting!

  First up let me apologize for the long gaps between my posts, the honest truth is it’s taking longer than I thought to master the new features in Silverlight 2.0 beta. It’s not that it’s hard or anything, well actually some things are... Posted Mar 13 2008, 10:15 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology

• Silverlight & WPF, what it means to me!

  When I approach learning new technologies, such as Silverlight & WPF, the first thing I ask myself is “What problem is this new technology trying to solve!”. When I’ve found my answer to that first question I then ask myself “How... Posted Mar 04 2008, 06:50 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology

• Nokia Signs up for Silverlight Mobile

  Looks like Nokia has signed up with Microsoft to include Silverlight in its S60 and S40 mobile phones as well as Nokia internet tablets. The Register mentions (despite the unnecessary jabs at Nokia and backhand at Microsoft) that this will be demo'd... Posted Mar 04 2008, 10:02 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Mobile, MIX08, Nokia

• Announcing Tweener for Silverlight

  As promised my friend released the managed source code for Tweener. I’ve personally been using this library and have a dozen or so demo’s that arn’t quite ready for release for another week BUT the demo’s Michael’s done are... Posted Feb 28 2008, 01:08 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, News, Technology, Tweener

• Just Beautiful - WorldWide Telescope

  [Click the picture to view the TED video of this amazing application] I can’t remember when I last felt this emotional. This application will truly change the world! Now I have to wait till Spring 2008 to experience this…. Well done Microsoft... Posted Feb 28 2008, 05:31 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: News, Technology, Lifestyle, WorldWide Telescope

• We need to learn from Flash!

  I can sum up in 3 points why flash, to me, is amazing 1. Rich feature set - it’s currently at version 9, just imagine all the cool things that it must have because it’s 9 versions old. 2. Papervision - this open-source library exposes amazing... Posted Feb 26 2008, 11:36 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, News, Technology

• Blend Candy: How to create a Gold and Sparkly effect

  In this post I’m going to get creative, I’m going to create something shinny and sparkly. Recently I saw a great adobe Photoshop tutorial showing how to achieve a “gold effect“. I wanted to try to re-create that same gold effect... Posted Jan 26 2008, 05:45 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy

• "Colour the World" - my version of an iPod Touch Colour Picker done with SilverLight

  I shouldn’t have to tell you of the importance a great colour scheme has on the success of your application or web site. To create that amazing user experience you have to have a great UI and one of the most important ingredients to a great UI is... Posted Jan 11 2008, 05:53 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy, Projects

• Blend Candy - Windows Media Player

  In a previous post, “Blue glowing glass button”, I confessed my adoration for the user interface of windows media player 10. I talked about how I loved the dark coloured theme, the glowing effect of the buttons and the glass effect overall... Posted Jan 01 2008, 04:07 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

• Flickr’s Multi-Picture Uploader done in SilverLight

  The current Flickr picture upload process is cool. It’s dead simple and makes multiple-picture uploading fun. The user experience is spot on and it really makes Flickr the killer picture sharing app that it is! I’m going try to recreate it’s... Posted Dec 20 2007, 12:53 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology