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• WPF – What’s the Tipping Point?

  As you may have gathered from my posts and tweets I attended PDC2008 two weeks ago and there are a few things that jumped out at me as it pertains to the trends in our ecosystem.  I’ve been a WPF guy since Avalon was announced back at PDC2005 and... Posted Nov 12 2008, 01:01 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, Silverlight, surface, Windows, Windows7, PDC2008

• HP TouchSmart + Windows 7 – Setup Guide

  Recently at PDC2008 IdentityMine showed a myriad of multi-touch interfaces running on Microsoft Surface and  Windows 7.  Our partners over at NextWindow hooked us up with a 42” touch overlay for one of our LCD monitors.  The key to making... Posted Nov 06 2008, 03:10 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, Windows7, PDC2008, TouchSmart

• Welcome Mr. Wagoner

  Photo from TechEd2007 Josh Wagoner has jumped into the fray that is blogging.  You can find his new home, Blog Bloginski, over at: http://blog.dobaginski.com/josh/.  That’s Josh above and I promise you he isn’t our customer service reps who... Posted Aug 28 2008, 03:02 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• Updated Mojave Experiment – now with Silverlight

  Today on the Windows Vista Blog, David Webster provided an update on the Mojave Experiment.  There is a ton of great information on some of the behind the scenes thinking on the campaign and how it all went down.  To me though the most important... Posted Aug 26 2008, 11:37 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, Silverlight

• IxDA Los Angeles Event sponsored by IdentityMine and REZN8

  The IxDA event Wednesday night sponsored by us and REZN8 was a success! The LA office was filled with 20+ guests from the interaction design community. It was a great opportunity for us to showcase the Surface demos (Wine bar & Snowboard) to a group... Posted Aug 25 2008, 10:47 AM by Issa.Johnson with | with no comments Filed under: IM, Blog, surface, ixda, people

• Dynamics CRM in WPF and Silverlight

  This past week on “Dynamics Duo”, a Dynamics themed set of videos on Channel9, Ben Riga and Girish Raja  showed some new User Experiences built around Dynamics.  At IdentityMine we had the privilege of working with the Dynamics team to deliver... Posted Aug 21 2008, 10:41 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, Silverlight, WPF, dynamics

• Welcome Laurent!

  This morning I had the pleasure of waking up to some great news.  Laurent Bugnion is joining IdentityMine! Laurent will be joining as a Senior Interactive Developer and will stay based in Zurich but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him at the Seattle... Posted Aug 20 2008, 07:55 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, people

• IxDA Los Angeles – IdentityMine and REZN8

  As you may have seen yesterday IdentityMine has been working on some cool stuff around  Microsoft’s Surface technology.  As part of an effort to share some of the details behind this project, IdentityMine and REZN8 have partnered with the local... Posted Aug 14 2008, 11:00 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, surface, ixda

• Surface, BillG, Snowboards and Wine

  Back in January I posted the photo on the left declaring “Yes, I’m a Nerd”.  If you read back to that post it explains that I was spending my evening watching the Bill Gates Keynote from CES.  Now that is all true but originally it seemed I... Posted Aug 13 2008, 10:51 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• WPF Application – Entellium Rave CRM and IdentityMine

  There is a lot of buzz about RIAs and other online browser based technologies and sometimes it hard to imagine there are traditional desktop based applications being actively developed and invested in.  At IdentityMine we see a lot of powerful enterprise... Posted Jul 28 2008, 02:26 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• nerdplusart relaunch from robby ingebretsen

  Probably my favorite part of working at IdentityMine is the chance to work with truly awesome peeps who I consider not just coworkers but friends and family.  If you ever get a chance to grab a meal or just have a conversation with Robby DO IT. ... Posted Jul 21 2008, 10:07 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, Silverlight, WPF

• Vote over on SilverlightDevCampSeattle.com

  As part of the upcoming SilverlightDevCampSeattle get together we asked for participants to submit logos.  We received four entries and the poll is currently up over on www.silverlightdevcampseattle.com. Voting ends June 11, 2008 at 11:59PM PST. Posted Jun 03 2008, 02:15 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• Expression Studio 2 – now on MSDN

  When Expression Studio 2 shipped back on May 1 the first thing I did was run over the MSDN to grab the new Blend and Web builds.  Unfortunately they didn’t immediately post to MSDN.  It looks like the builds were posted on 5/27.  In the... Posted Jun 03 2008, 01:52 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• Seesmic and Silverlight

  Loic Le Meur posted a few weeks back about Seesmic working together with Microsoft to deliver a Silverlight Mobile client.  This has a few positive impacts for our community. 1)  Seesmic and Loic are doing great, innovative things.  I haven’t... Posted May 29 2008, 11:00 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• One Big Community - crossPost from SilverlightDevCampSeattle

  Back when I kicked this off in April I was focused on setting our date then working on venues and volunteers. After a few days I had been contacted by a few folks and we started looking into location and sponsors. By that time we had a few attendees and... Posted May 28 2008, 12:00 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog