Rory bullies fish. Luckily the fish have evolved to having mind control eye lasers and mustaches... …
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Brad Abrams posted last month about events taking place in Second Life on Visual Studio Island. After hearing about these, I added them to the Upcoming Events page on the Silverlight wiki. Then it got it a little weird. Looking to spread the word about these unique events a little f…
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It appears at the Ajax Experience conference going on this week, Yahoo! has released a add-on for Firebug which analyzes your page for possible performance issues. In other words its figuring out why your page may be slow, or in Yahoo terms YSlow. Its cute, it isn't it. Judging by m…
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I am planning to go to the Facebook Developer Garage event on Tuesday night at the Capitol Hill Arts Center. I've seen a few interesting Apps built on the Facebook platform and I can see the potential of the concept. Beyond testing and studying, I have been hung…
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In a recent Channel 9 video, Charles interviews Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin about Flotzam. Take a spoonful of Twitter, add some Flickr and a dash of Facebook, optionally flavoring to you own taste with custom RSS support and you have an application that doubles as a screensaver flowing…
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Part of taking on this new role has involved a lot of research. I'm consuming large amounts of inbound data from multiple blogs and search feeds, primarily focused on Silverlight. I'm happy to see there is a lot of talk about Silverlight and RIAs in general, as well as plenty of people w…
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This weekend the first signs of the new Channel 8 site become publicly visible as noticed by the Niners. Channel 8 is the last project I had worked on the EvNet team. A little early to be talking about the site, they appear to still be pushing content, but I wanted to congratulate the t…
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After reading the post by Tim Heuer about Jing, I grabbed the fancy new screen/video capturing tool. Behind the simple and fun interface, there is quite a bit of power. I figured a simple animation wouldn't be hard to do. And it wasn't. Camtasia, as per the functionality o…
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I remember meeting Casey Chestnut from the aptly named brains-N-brawn site during PDC05. You may remember his /cameraFlow Labyrinth game that took second place in the ShowOff competition. It was an implementation of the old wooden version one using a webCam and a TabletPC.…
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After recently changing my feed over to FeedBurner I was happy to see that my latest "Note" had been imported into my Facebook profile. (In case you're not aware, Facebook has a cool feature which allows you to import posts from your blog into your profile which then become "Notes". …
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I've been dreaming for awhile about useful new features that I could add to my blog. Not just new features, really, more like what a blog could be. How could it be more useful to the reader and to me as the author. A lot of my ideas center around visualizations, and what could be d…
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