April 2007 - Posts

• MIX07 Countdown

  It has begun. The crew is aboard and we’re about to launch. It’s exciting times for our team as last minute tweaks to presentations, attire adjustments (oh yes we have matching shirts) and other formalities for event preparation are winding down. It all began with Codename: Mission Control (i.e. blendables ™) Although our MIX presence will be about much more than our product launch, no doubt blendables ™ will generate some serious buzz amongst the WPF community. The current tally for IdentityMine session participation is up to 5 now. In addition, we should have a couple interviews from Mark Brown and Robby Ingebretsen shown during the Keynote sessions. If you’re at MIX this year there are a few things to watch for… IdentityMen (not Mine), a cool handout you will only get at our sessions and a bunch of guys running around in Black and White shirts - Referees of the UI paradigm. (Ask us to assist you with your WPF challenge, we’ll help you make the right call) I wish we could bring the entire company to MIX this year. Unfortunately logistics and budget will only allow 13. Not to mention that MIX07 is sold out. Come by and say hi… Posted Apr 26 2007, 10:13 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Mark Brown, Nathan Dunlap, Kurt Brockett, Robby Ingebretsen, Jared Potter, Josh Wagoner, Fil Fortes, Jonathan Russ, Dale Jones, David Meunier, Chad Brown, David Fitzgerald, Craig Jaris

• XAML Goodness – Just in time for Silverlight

  CHATBlender is live! Today it was officially approved and published as a Messenger Activity. Check it out in the Windows Live Gallery under the Business category: http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?c=16&l=6 CHATBlender is an example our teams dedication to the XAML community. Although not an officially supported product by IdentityMine, we hope it’s of help to all the WPF, WPF/E (aka Silverlight) designers and developers out there. For our officially supported “Tools and Components for Designers and Developers” visit http://www.blendables.com Posted Apr 18 2007, 04:31 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: WPF, Mark Brown, WPF/E, Nathan Dunlap, blendables, CHATBlender, Silverlight

• WPF Controls = blendables™

  WPF Tools and Components for Designers and Developers! Curious? Keep watching the following blogs for more detail: Nathan Dunlap - http://designerslove.net/ Robby Ingebretsen - http://notstatic.com/ Kurt Brockett - http://brockett.net/ Posted Apr 16 2007, 07:07 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Nathan Dunlap, blendables, Kurt Brockett, WPF Controls, Robby Ingebretsen

• WPF Portfolio (AKA “Stories”)

  A couple posts back I made the statement: “Helping our customers love their software is very consuming. So much so that it’s been a challenge to find the time to thoroughly communicate what our tagline Love your software.™ really means.” We're making progress...First we began with a site dedicated to the tagline, next we tweaked our corporate presence, then we told our story at major events and team blogs, now…we’ve got a new portfolio site: http://www.identitymine.com/portfolio/Default.aspx Thanks Jared and team! This looks fantastic!! Posted Apr 11 2007, 08:15 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: WPF, Jared Potter, .NET 3.0

• WPF Case Studies Galore

  Searching the internet for WPF case studies I came across this link from MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa497320.aspx After reviewing the 12 case studies I realized that IdentityMine was a major contributor for 3 of them. We must ask our friends at Microsoft to properly represent our team’s contribution! Wells Fargo – Thomson – Accruent (Image Below) Posted Apr 09 2007, 10:07 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Case Study

• Beginning to define our tagline

  Helping our customers love their software is very consuming. So much so that it’s been a challenge to find the time to thoroughly communicate what our tagline Love your software.™ really means. http://www.loveyoursoftware.com Recently one of our folks blogged on the topic: “The best experiences are more than the exciting first impression. Great software is about working, looking and feeling great over the long term.” – Robby Ingebretsen Enjoy the complete post: http://notstatic.com/archives/70 Posted Apr 05 2007, 10:42 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Robby Ingebretsen, Love your software

• Case study for a major sportswear manufacturer

  “… technology team knew it couldn’t take the Virtual Retail Wall project on by itself. As a result, it recruited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IdentityMine to help with the development effort. Given IdentityMine’s unique level of experience with Windows Presentation Foundation, it was tasked with creating the presentation layer.” http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201270 A special thanks to a few folks from our team who pulled some MAJOR hours over a 3-week period: Franklin Jose, Robby Ingebretsen, Nathan Dunlap, Rob Hogue Posted Apr 02 2007, 05:46 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Nathan Dunlap, Robby Ingebretsen, WPF 3D, Rob Hogue, Franklin Jose, WCF

• WPF Training - Five Days at IdentityMine

  IdentityMine has had the opportunity to develop and deliver custom training for some very large and prominent companies. In most cases, we travel to their location. However, most recently we had the pleasure of hosting Siemens at our Tacoma office for a week of WPF Designer and Developer training. I hope this model becomes the norm. Having the ability to expose the customer to numerous members of our team added significant value. Don’t take my word for it… http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2007/03/31/110500.aspx- Laurent Bugnion, a Microsoft MVP and Siemens Architect talks about his week at IdentityMine. It was good to see him properly reiterate our suggestion to have a 3rd role beyond Designer and Developer called the Integrator. (Laurent and others sometimes call it the Devigner) A special thanks to Nathan Dunlap who ran the Designer track and Josh Wagoner who delivered the Developer track. Let’s not forget Robby Ingebretsen who came in on the last day to assist with Workflow training. Posted Apr 01 2007, 08:09 AM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: WPF, Nathan Dunlap, Robby Ingebretsen, Workflow, Training, Josh Wagoner