Post Archives for November 2008

DeepEarth - Maps served using Deep Zoom in Silverlight

DeepEarth is a prototype of an interactive map using the Deep Zoom functionality of Silverlight.  The project is developed by the community and the code is available on CodePlex. You may have seen the previous demo video before but the current demo site has been recently updated t…

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posted on Nov 30th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Windows FireStarter, free event on Dec 12th

On December 12th in the grand Kodiak room of the Microsoft Conference Center, there will commence a free training Windows event of the greatest proportions seen in the area for awhile. Take a look at the line up: Mark "Inside Windows" Russinovich will be there to explain Windows oddit…

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posted on Nov 28th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Manifest Digital wins PhizzPop Chicago with Five Star City

For PhizzPop Chicago, Manifest Digital was tasked with creating a digital strategy for Chicago's bid to become the host city for the 2016 Olympics.  Their winning entry was Five Star City, a digital scrapbook allowing the people of Chicago to express themselves and explain why think Chicag…

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posted on Nov 26th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

XAML Power Toys from Karl Shifflett

XAML Power Toys - Instant Form Generation (28:10) Karl Shifflett is someone you know you should know when you first meet him.  He’s a super smart guy who builds great tools for WPF and is obviously having a good time while he’s doing it. One of the first projects he was involved w…

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posted on Nov 24th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Vectorform wins PhizzPop New York with Study Right

On the heels of my fascination with SurfaceDJ, Vectorform impresses again by winning the PhizzPop with Study Right, an innovative education application concept. The application visualizes what the classroom of the near future may look like when students have Multi-touch laptops and the teacher ha…

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posted on Nov 14th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Quickly Redesigning a Silverlight-based Twitter application

Celso Gomes: Styling a Silverlight based Twitter application with Expression Blend 2 (10:28) In 10 minutes, Celso Gomes redesigns a working Silverlight-based Twitter application using Expression Blend 2. The fact that he is redesigning the working application without touching any code or…

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

Continuum on Channel9

The Continuum on Channel 9 is now open for business.  Its a central hub for the different online projects coming from myself and my team, including The Continuum Show, Project Rosetta and Continuum News. What is the Client Continuum? The Client Continuum is way to view all of the Micros…

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posted on Nov 12th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

New Controls and Tools - PDC2008 Cool Hunting finale

Monday was a blow out day for The Continuum Show.  5 videos from PDC were posted showing off new, unique and useful tools.  As UI technologies improve and expectations grow control and tool vendors are adapting and changing in interesting ways.  I'm loving the attention paid to enabli…

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posted on Nov 12th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Multi-touch enlightenment with IdentityMine and Vectorform

Something about companies with compound names... Being a UI guy, one of the biggest impressions PDC2008 left on me was Multi-touch.  This is the first time I've seen it done in so many forms.  There were Surface tables everywhere, in the Lounges, Hand-on Labs, Exhibitor booths, in the hal…

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

Cool hunting at PDC - Conchango's Tesco project

PDC2008 was an awesome show with a great turnout.  This was the first year I was involved so much with the event crew so it was very interesting to see it from the logistics side.  A lot of great work done by a lot of people, congratulations to the whole PDC team! Conchango and the Te…

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posted on Nov 4th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |