Following Tim's lead for 2007, I've created a list of all the Silverlight-based Christmas cards I could find. Deep Zoom was the big winner this year as the implementation feature for card creation. Please let me know if I missed any. ObjectSharp - Deep Zoom ContentMaster - Deep Zoom…
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After much anticipation version 2 of the XboxFriendsWatch GamerCard is available for your enjoyment. The whole goal behind this release was to update to Silverlight 2 RTM and make it more of a blog-friendly badge or widget. In order to do that I've added Themes along with a Build Your Own T…
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I noticed a little Silverlight pop up on Zune.net today. The mixview seen in the 3.0 client software is available on the site in Silverlight when looking at an artist's page. Visit The Crystal Method's page and click "mixview" in the sub navigation. Music: Happily Ever After by The…
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The problem statement is simple: What is the problem? There is an empty 10k of code sitting out there between you and some cool cred and great prizes. "The grand prize winner will live large at MIX09 with a free pass to the MIX09 event, three nights at The Venetian Hote…
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NEC Biglobe Deep Zoom Album Viewer adds a nice effect to the Deep Zoom photo layout concept by adding a ripple and z-index effect based on mouse position. I really like the look of this as it adds a bit more to the browsing experience. Its like the photos jump up because they want …
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Oxite, an open source, standards compliant, extensible CMS was "hard-launched" today, much to the delight and excitement of quite a few people. We "soft-launched" it Friday night but you probably didn't hear about it. When the time came to relaunch MIX Online the…
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I’m excited to say that the spirit of the Project “Rosetta Stone” Tutorials, which is “using what you know” has become a MIX09 workshop. The workshop is entitled “Shio o Totte: Using What You Know” and the description is as follows: Have you just started working on your first Silverlight pro…
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Although quite a few people have linked to this video already, I wanted to point out something interesting. Not that you wouldn’t catch it if you watched the movie. But with the comments of “familiar resizing, option selecting interaction”, you may not take the 2 minutes to check it out. Firs…
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