Adam Kinney blog posts filtered by a specific taghttp://adamkinney.com/blog/tags/flickr/default.aspxen-usWed, 19 Nov 2008 23:55:50 GMTOxite<div style="float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px"><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=329342"><img src="http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/329342.jpg" /></a> </div> <p>In a recent <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=329342">Channel 9 video</a>, Charles interviews <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj">Karsten Januszewski</a> and <a href="http://systim.spaces.live.com/">Tim Aidlin</a> about <a href="http://flotzam.com/">Flotzam</a>.</p> <p>Take a&nbsp;spoonful of Twitter, add some Flickr and a dash of Facebook, optionally flavoring to you own taste with custom RSS support and you have an application that doubles as a screensaver flowing data on and off your screen.&nbsp; Better yet, remix the app by grabbing the <a href="http://flotzam.com/download/SourceCode/Flotzamsource.zip">source code</a>&nbsp;and customize the whole experience.</p> <p>Kartsen and Tim talk about their development&nbsp;experience especially focusing on the flow of between designer and developer.&nbsp; Tim designed the elements within <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=blend">Blend</a>, handed them off to Karsten who would then write the C# code which reach out and grab the disparate data and display it leveraging <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms750612.aspx">Databinding</a>.</p> <p>Not only is the application mashing-up data, its built on foundation of mashed up code, including libraries such as,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.codeplex.com/FacebookToolkit">Facebook.NET</a>, <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/FlickrNet">Flickr.NET</a> and <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/08/creating-a-net-twitter-api-in-4-5-seconds.aspx">Karsten's own Twitter API built in 4.5 seconds</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/20/collaborating-on-creating-animations-in-wpf-and-blend-possibilities-and-limitations.aspx">Karsten blogged about his experience here</a>, but I would&nbsp;expect to see more from him about the Designer/Developer&nbsp;workflow in the future.</p><img src="http://adamkinney.com/blog/232/aggviewbug/default.aspx" alt="" />http://adamkinney.com/blog/232/default.aspxhttp://adamkinney.com/blog/232/default.aspxThu, 26 Jul 2007 20:11:00 GMThttp://adamkinney.com/blog/232/default.aspxAdam Kinney0http://adamkinney.com/blog/232/trackback/default.aspxChannel 9FacebookFlickrTwitterWPF