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Former Microsoft Evangelist - now working as an independent developer focused on User Interface Design. Currently focused on HTML5, Windows Phone and Windows 8.
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Tag Archives: WPF
Building a Windows Phone 7 game at the Kinect Code Camp
This week I had the unique opportunity to take part in the Kinect Code Camp, a quiet event starting 24 hours before the public launch of the Kinect SDK. From the beginning there was a great vibe going on provided … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies, Experiments, Storytelling
Tagged Kinect, thinkpixellab, WP7, WPF
5 Comments
My Top 10 Interaction Developer picks for MIX11 Open Call
The MIX11 OpenCall voting has begun and the call to action is simple: We need you to tell us which sessions you’d like to see at MIX11. Voting is open to everyone (no registration required). Vote for up to 10 of … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies
Tagged Blend, Expression, MIX, MVVM, NUI, Silverlight, Surface, WP7, WPF
1 Comment
I’ll be that guy – future directions and so on and so forth
Today during a call with Mr. Ingebretsen discussing a project, we had plotted who would be the dev lead, who would be the design lead and who would be the dev/design/wireframe/glue lead. I said “I’ll be that guy”, the “glue” … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies, Storytelling
Tagged Flash, iOS, Silverlight, visual communication, WPF
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On the Herding Code show talking about Silverlight and HTML5 (+ artwork)
Rick Barraza and I were guests on the Herding Code show talking about Silverlight and HTML 5. I decided to create a cover art for the episode, just to give it that extra love. Check out the show at herdingcode.com/?p=281 … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies, Storytelling
Tagged artwork, HerdingCode, HTML5, Silverlight, WindowsPhone, WPF
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Speaking at the Portland Silverlight group on Aug 10 – Building toolable apps that enable dev/design workflow
On August 10th, Karl Shifflett and I will be making the trek down to the Portland Silverlight user group to present on building your WPF and Silverlight applications in such a way that they are tool-friendly or “toolable”. Here’s the … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies
Tagged Blend, blendable, Cider, Expression, Silverlight, Visual Studio, WPF
2 Comments
Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available
For those of you who were not able to make it to Internet Week last week, the Expression Studio 4 keynote video is now available! (And my condolences to you, since that means you likely also missed the best Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies
Tagged Blend, Encoder, Expression, Silverlight, Web, WindowsPhone, WPF
3 Comments
Debugging the TranslateZoomRotate WPF Behavior in Blend
This question on Stack Overflow referring to an error when using the new WPF behavior TranslateZoomRotate. First of all, its nice to see the new behavior included with Expression Blend 4 in use. The TranslateZoomRotate behavior provides support for gesture-based … Continue reading
What’s new in Blend 4 Behaviors on Silverlight TV
Right after landing in Seattle after the latest .toolbox events tour, I ran to the studio and filmed this episode on Behaviors of SilverlightTV. Not only are there 10 new Behaviors added in version 4 of the Expression Blend SDK, … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies
Tagged Behaviors, Blend, Expression, Silverlight, SilverlightTV, WPF
2 Comments
Expression Studio 4 Launch on Jun 7th in NYC!
Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th! Bill Buxton will be there as our featured guest speaker and many of your other favorite Blenders will be there, too: Christian Schormann … Continue reading
Posted in Client Technologies
Tagged Blend, Design, Encoder, Expression, Silverlight, SketchFlow, Web, WPF
11 Comments
Design-time Resources in Expression Blend 4 RC
When building Silverlight and WPF applications that are composited (e.g. using MEF) or written to support UI customization, resources are loaded dynamically at run-time. This is a great solution on the development side, but can be a challenge when working … Continue reading