Post Archives for October 2008

Day 0 at PDC2008 - on inspiration and creativity

Here I am in my Moroccan hotel room at the Hotel Figueroa ruminating over the first day at the Conference Center for PDC2008 thinking, who works on a Saturday?  Many people do, of course, and some people work really hard like those setting up the Conference Center for the PDC so that the attend…

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posted on Oct 25th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

QuakeLight, the Silverlight port of Quake, is coming...

QuakeLight Preview (3:00) In the first post about QuakeLight, many people were interested and some just couldn't quite believe what they saw.  I was pretty impressed myself and contacted Julien Frelat the man behind the scenes.  He was more than willing to provide information on …

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posted on Oct 22nd, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Rounded Windows and Blur Sample Code

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Tonight I saw this distressing tweet from @tsjordan: #wpf: Window.AllowsTransparency, Background="Transparent", WindowStyle="None" ALL A DIRTY LIE. I NEED ROUNDED WINDOWS! And I thought, "I know that works.  Let me try it real quick." So I did and I ended…

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posted on Oct 22nd, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

SilverlightContrib is taking off

Congratulations to the freshly expanded SilverlightContrib team for the work done on their Alpha 2 release!  They've overshot their original release goals set in September by quite bit.  Straight from their site: Silverlight Contrib is a collection of Silverlight Controls and API e…

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posted on Oct 20th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

PDC 2008 Badges interview, cereal included

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Countdown to PDC2008: Badges!? We do... "It's like applying the Xbox Live Achievement system to your conference atten... attention... experience!" After watching the video from the "people in the camera" view, I'm guessing this video was way more entertaining t…

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posted on Oct 13th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

WPF Effects and Transitions Library Applied

WPF Effects Interview (8:46) WPF Effects Interview - Essential (5:35) WPF Effects Demo (5:35) WPF Effects Demo - Just Effects (3:36) WPF Effects Demo - Just Transitions (2:32) Last week we posted the WPF Effects Library on Codeplex along with an David Teitlebaum interview …

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posted on Oct 9th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Seattle's own Developer/Designer Group

In exciting local news, a few of us having gotten together and taken note from the Chicago Designers and Developers group and started up the Seattle Designer Developer Interaction Group or as we like to abbreviate it - sd2ig. The purpose of the group is to bring together developers and designers …

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posted on Oct 7th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Quake in Silverlight with 3D and Texture Mapping

QuakeLight, a Silverlight-based version of the classic game Quake, is a new project from Innoveware Solutions. Reading through Innoveware's news stream you can see that they just started working with Silverlight around 2 months ago and they already have a pretty cool version of Quake up in running…

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posted on Oct 1st, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |