October 2007 - Posts

• LEGOs or Clay…

  Somehow I missed that this was out and available. Swift3D rocks! It has Silverlight support whoohoo!http://www.erain.com/products/swift3d/Silverlight/default.asp Possibly my favorite thing I have ever seen on the net is a showcase example of what you can do with Swift3D. http://www.tokyoplastic.com/dm.html  Speaking of erain… I am reading through the user assistance in Zam3D and I gotta say by far [...] Posted Oct 29 2007, 05:49 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Silverlight, Legos

• Electric Rain StandOut Public Beta

  Electric Rain wins for creating the most functional sidebar gadget yet. And it has a frog on it You just create a project in StandOut Designer and register this instance of the sidebar gadget with that project and then when you drag and drop assets that you want to use for your presentation [...] Posted Oct 16 2007, 01:23 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: erain

• Blend Tip: Redundant Naming

  I’ve had a lot of people disagree with me on this one but I just ran into another case where this was incredibly annoying and proved it’s importance once again deeming it blog worthy. Naming every object in your XAML is just good practice. I think we can all agree on that. Of course it’s just [...] Posted Oct 16 2007, 10:16 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design, blendables, Blend

• Blend Trick: Eyedropper and Gradients

  In the Brushes panel if you have “gradient brush” selected and use the eyedropper, you can drag a range between two points to create a gradient brush based on the values between those two points.   Wish I had stumbled on that earlier. Posted Oct 15 2007, 03:50 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design Tip

• DeepRockDrive, Last.FM,

  Got an invite to DeepRockDrive… Totally cool premise. And all of a sudden I get the social network thing… Actually Robby added me to his facebook account and I just realized why I didn’t get it before… I just dont have a lot of friends… But Robby does. Holy Cow! 120 people… When you have [...] Posted Oct 15 2007, 12:42 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: facebook

• Hi, I’m Mike.

  Umm no Im not. But this is: http://www.viewmyworld.com/ (click the silverlight guy) or maybe you can find the real deal here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/ Cool website although it’s Flash based! I tend to agree with Drew’s post about this kinda problem… Of course I’ve been on the inside and know that these projects start along time before they [...] Posted Oct 15 2007, 12:27 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Silverlight

• ? It’s up to you ? - In Rainbows

  I won’t bore you with my own personal review… you can read one here if you need one although I dont personally think Radiohead is a band that can be reviewed….http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2621947.ece The cool thing is the online experiment that they are doing… I woke up and immediately went to inrainbows.com to download the new album that [...] Posted Oct 10 2007, 10:05 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design

• "Creativity is not a static pursuit…"

  Ouch… $100,000 to get a touch screen at Neiman Marcus: http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/sitelets/christmasbook/fantasy.jhtml?cid=OCBF8_NMO2807&cmCat=christmas Makes the Microsoft Surface “somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000″ price tag seem pretty great! Speaking of Ars Technica had a great article on surface the other day. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/surface.ars/1 Posted Oct 05 2007, 02:36 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design

• Expression Blend Make Control with F8 (even in Silverlight projects)

  This rocks… I knew that Make Control via F8 or Tools Menu > Make Control was an incredibly easy way to make user controls in WPF apps, but I didnt know that it applied in Silverlight as well. Just select an object or group of objects and hit F8 and it will pop a Make Control [...] Posted Oct 05 2007, 02:30 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design, Silverlight, Blend

• Facebook, Ultimate Fighting and High School Musical…

  Been playing with http://flotzam.com/ Jared Potter spent some time explaining Facebook with me. I do get the premise of Social Networks and the value. In fact in early work we were doing with WPF/WCF apps I was really hot onto doing stuff with Friendster in MediaMania… (ahem NetFlix Friends made that real… made it cool). But [...] Posted Oct 04 2007, 02:27 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design

• The "Delicious generation"

  http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/core_anim The “Delicious generation” is a breed of young developers who embrace interface experimentation and brash marketing. The term “Delicious generation” was meant as an insult, but they wear it as a badge of honor. Wish I would have seen this article when it was more recent but stumbled on this and I loved that quote. I’d be [...] Posted Oct 04 2007, 02:09 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design

• blendables essentials mix v1.0 is shipping!

  http://blendables.com/ Posted Oct 03 2007, 03:39 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, nathan dunlap

• Useful WPF sites not on the blogroll…

  Haven’t seen these posts making the blog roll on wpf.netfx3.com If you havent checked out these sites you should: Mike Hillberg’s Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehillberg/default.aspx Dr. WPF http://drwpf.com/blog/ How do we get the community blogroll updated to host some of these? Posted Oct 03 2007, 11:49 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: WPF

• ChatBlender for Silverlight 1.1

  Ive been so busy that I havent been able to comment on this but one of our resident Silverlight dudes, Devin Brown, has updated Chatblender to work with silverlight 1.1. (Not 1.0 compat at the moment, given time I will try to get the 1.0 version running again and then do a browser sniff to [...] Posted Oct 03 2007, 11:45 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Silverlight, Devin Brown, nathan dunlap