May 2007 - Posts

• I’m in with Popfly…

  just wanted to thank all yall who sent me invites to popfly… Im in and having fun with it! Posted May 25 2007, 02:14 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Popfly

• SimpleVerticalTabItems

  Been feeling like I haven’t had much in the way of valuable posts lately… Mostly just links that I find interesting… Been a victim of having too many cool projects and training gigs lined up… One thing I like about training ops is it always uconvers some interesting scenarios that “should” be easy but really isn’t. For [...] Posted May 25 2007, 12:24 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design Tip

• History of the XAML Shield…

  Check out the XAML shield that is being passed around… Thought I would post some context and give some tidbits of information… Many many moons ago Peggi Goodwin popped in my office and asked if I could create icons for the many different types of XAML formats (including baml, xaml, .application, browser hosted applications now .xbap, [...] Posted May 23 2007, 03:48 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: WPF

• 24! and Im not talking about comics again…

  Congrats to Times Reader for making it to #24  on the PCWORLD The 100 Best Products of 2007 Fun quote: “…as clickable as a Web page but as readable as print…” Another interesting article that I think is abstractly related to great reading experience… Origami 2.0 Smaller, lighter, more powerful ultra mobile devices that can support wpf [...] Posted May 21 2007, 09:10 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Reading

• Popfly - the shizzy!

  There are two things I really want in this world right now…  A silverlight skateboard and and alpha invite to Popfly. .NET legos… How cool is that? David Kelley is probably in heaven right now. Posted May 18 2007, 11:36 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: Popfly

• Kurt Brockett interviewed at Mix 07

  Havent watched it yet but if its anything like Kurt’s shoes made out of baseball’s then its gotta be fun and interesting… http://visitmix.com/Blogs/Joshua/identitymine/ Posted May 17 2007, 06:35 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Mix 07

• Dear Microsoft,

  I love WPF… However Silverlight is a much cooler name than WPF and I think the lack of a cool name hurts WPF’s street cred. (see Kurts post) I thought through why WPF/E was named Silverlight and came up with conclusion that the appropriate moniker for WPF would be “Goldheavy” but that just sounds lame… How about [...] Posted May 09 2007, 10:21 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: WPF, Silverlight

• TemplateSwitching with NumericRangeToObjectConverter

  Here is the source code for a sample that I was going to demo at Mix but we ran out of time. http://blendables.com/files/folders/essentials_documentation/entry48.aspx I will follow up with more tutorial info but in the meantime its a very simple sample… It switches the template on a control based on the width of the root window element in the [...] Posted May 07 2007, 10:43 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Mix 07, Reading

• Kevin’s Bag-O-Tricks Mix 07 Edition

  If you havent downloaded it yet do so now! Very cool FlipTile3D rocks! TransitionPresenter is off the chain (sorry stole that from Mike Harsh)… Gotta give it some performance tests to see how I like it full screen but I gotta say the Horizontal Wipe is StarWarsErrific! http://work.j832.com/ Posted May 07 2007, 09:58 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: Mix 07

• Graphic Novels for the iPod

  More proof that WPF is a ripe platform for developing rich multimedia graphic novels… It looks like Im way behind the times though as there is a very good looking graphic novel called “The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore” coming that will be delivered via iPod. This totally upholds my “comfort” argument about reading experiences [...] Posted May 06 2007, 11:37 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Comics

• Its Free Comic Book Day!

  Since we were on stage showing off our comic reader experiment we did last week I think its only appropriate to call out that today, May 5th, is Free Comic Book Day… http://www.freecomicbookday.com/sponsors.asp Im gonna rustle up some neighbor kids and take them down to our local shop and see what we can find. I was pretty [...] Posted May 05 2007, 10:01 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Comics, Mix 07

• ZAP WHAM! KAPOW!!

  The talk is live on the web! streaming via Silverlight!   Posted May 02 2007, 01:07 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: Silverlight

• Part 2: The Art, Science, and Business of Killer Content Experiences

  We ran out of time so I didnt get to talk… Which is fine by me… Im not very at home on the stage.. If you missed it, this talk had one of the coolest things I have seen at Mix yet. It was a prototype of  the New York Times reader built in Silverlight running [...] Posted May 01 2007, 04:26 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Mix 07

• Blendables making a big splash at Mix

  Man! We’ve been so busy making these things I havent fully realized how unbelievably cool these things are… Im pretty biased since I worked on them but there are a few that are a bit over my head to realize what this really means. Im sitting in the back of the room watching Jonathan Russ present [...] Posted May 01 2007, 03:18 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: WPF

• The Art, Science, and Business of Killer Content Experiences

  Ah warm red bull in the morning… Must be a vegas thing. Guess I will have two. Catch Kevin’s talk at Delfino 4101A. He used to be my one my managers when I was working at MS. He is the guy who has made the reader experience apps happen. I will be giving a quick demo of a [...] Posted May 01 2007, 08:03 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: Mix 07