I used to play Photoshop Tennis pretty frequently a few years ago. Sure, I may be a bit out of shape now, but the desire is still there. I noticed today in the latest Infrequent Mailing from Coudal that they had a link to Photoshop Tennis. Not much there but a large graphic declaring its…
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Watch the gritty, live action HALO trailer in HD now Now for those of you that know, I am not a huge fan of HALO for multiplayer joy (I'm still a UT guy (UT 3 trailer here!)). BUT I did like the thematic single player mode and I do like the mythology of HALO. So what better to see…
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I just signed my name on the attendee list for SilverlightDevCamp San Francisco: SilverlightDevCampSF is an upcoming gathering, inspired by BarCamp, to build Silverlight applications, It's organized by volunteers & Silverlight enthusiasts, with attendance free to all. While similar to i…
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Silverlight and many of its cousins appeared in a funny keynote animation during the Web on the Piste conference. The animation was created very skillfully by the Nectarine group out of Australia. Taking a look at their portfolio certainly is inspiring. Anima…
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A new Wellington NZ based user group focused on WPF and Silverlight for designers will be holding their first meeting on Thursday the 13th of September. This is awesome to see. Now if only Wellington wasn't so far from here, I'd stop by :) From their about section: If you w…
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Today I posted two screencasts, created by Jaime Rodriguez, on Channel 9. Its a short two part series which provides an overview of "Cider", the WPF Designer surface, included in the recently launched Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. In the first video, I was really impressed with the contro…
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One of the most noticeably missing features in the current Silverlight bits is the lack of controls. They are planned for version 1.1, you can see a list here, but in version 1.0 or in the 1.1 alpha you need to roll your own. And that's exactly what ComponentOne has done a very thorough job of…
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.silverlightHost {
height: 300px;
width: 500px;
background-color:#FFF;
}
As I went to brew my morning coffee this morning I noticed something subtle but great. Some kind kitchen engineer had stopped by and switched the locations of the microwave and coffee suppl…
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I know iLike has been there for awhile now, but I'm a big fan of Pandora. So once I read they had come to Facebook, I thought what great fodder for another drawing. I really enjoyed the pirate Rory run in ArtRage last night, so here is another one using the same technique. Sketch i…
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Last night, I headed out with Erik Porter to attend the Facebook Dev Garage in Seattle. Now as a disclaimer we did get there an hour late, but when we got there we ran into a wall (pictured to the right). A wall of 3 people deep just to get into the standing room only room where t…
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Shawn Wildermuth is touring the nation to spread the word on Silverlight. A 3-day dive into Designing, Developing and Server interaction with Silverlight. I heard about the Silverlight Tour after listening to Carl and Richard interview him on .NetRocks!. S…
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