Adam Kinney blog posts filtered by a specific taghttp://adamkinney.com/blog/tags/super+heroes/default.aspxen-usTue, 02 Dec 2008 23:17:58 GMTOxite<p>HHH stands for <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/">Heroes happen {here}</a> which is a new site centered around events local and virtual where you can test drive Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.&nbsp; The site takes advantage of Silverlight&nbsp; in a few places but one that I saw today grabbed my attention.</p> <div style="float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/cool-stuff/comic/default.mspx"><img src="http://adamkinney.com/images/blog/lord_firewall.jpg" alt="" /></a> </div> <p>HHH has launched <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/cool-stuff/comic/default.mspx">a daily comic</a> that turns the real-life stories of IT Pros into virtual entertaining web comics.&nbsp; It seems like a fun project to work and they have some credible talent behind the wheel.</p> <p>Being a fan of the <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001040.html">Sesame Street rule</a> I like this idea and I think its fun to see a Firewall personified as a laser-toting hero.&nbsp; But the real reason that I was prompted to write about this was the comic viewer itself.&nbsp; Its a light-weight framework allowing the content to be the star, but I think its a good example of when using the <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412374.aspx">fullscreen functionality</a> can be very useful.</p> <p>Similar to the NBA photo viewer (found on the home page of <a href="http://www.nba.com/">nba.com</a> in the left column) the images look fine in the page, but as soon as you go fullscreen you can see the greater fidelity of the image, or in this case enjoy the detail of the artwork more.</p> <p>After seeing this I was reminded of a MIX07 presentation by the <a href="http://identitymine.com/">IdentityMine</a> where they demonstrated a <a href="http://adamkinney.com/blog/214/default.aspx">Comic Viewer they had created with WPF</a>.&nbsp; I wonder what ever happened to that project?</p> <p>Maybe we could get them to post it on CodePlex for the rest of us to pick up and run with...</p><img src="http://adamkinney.com/blog/302/aggviewbug/default.aspx" alt="" />http://adamkinney.com/blog/302/default.aspxhttp://adamkinney.com/blog/302/default.aspxThu, 31 Jan 2008 18:28:00 GMThttp://adamkinney.com/blog/302/default.aspxAdam Kinney2http://adamkinney.com/blog/302/trackback/default.aspxartSilverlightsuper heroes<p>The new <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/teenagemutantninjaturtles/" target="_blank">TMNT teaser</a> is up, along with an <a href="http://tmnt.com" target="_blank">empty distributor website</a>.&nbsp; To find more info you can look at the <a href="http://www.imagi.com.hk/corporate/" target="_blank">Imagi site</a>&nbsp;the company handling the 3D Animation.</p><p><img src="http://adamkinney.com/images/blog/tmnt_teaser.jpg" alt="tmnt" width="500" height="219" />&nbsp;</p><p>The turtles actually look pretty good, but its not too clear how closely the will resemble their PG rated incarnation from the early 90s movies or the R rated version from the original comic books.&nbsp; This is essential to how they use their weapons.&nbsp; Hopefully Leonardo will not have to backhand foes with his&nbsp;blades like PG-13&nbsp;Wolverine in X3.</p><img src="http://adamkinney.com/blog/154/aggviewbug/default.aspx" alt="" />http://adamkinney.com/blog/154/default.aspxhttp://adamkinney.com/blog/154/default.aspxSat, 22 Jul 2006 06:21:00 GMThttp://adamkinney.com/blog/154/default.aspxAdam Kinney3http://adamkinney.com/blog/154/trackback/default.aspxmoviessuper heroes