So far in the last couple hours I have found 3 great benefits of IE8 beta 2.   First IE8 is launching really fast. This is great since I am doing a lot of Silverlight stuff lately… Build and run gets painful when you are doing it hundreds of times a day. IE 8 boots up noticeably [...]

I’m going to be at PDC again this year. Can’t wait to see what Microsoft has to show! I’ve been to the last couple of PDC’s so now its starting to feel like things just won’t be right if I miss out.   It will probably be my first outing since my twin girls were born so [...]

Josh Wagoner is blogging. http://blog.dobaginski.com/josh/   Josh is a “experience software engineer” at IdentityMine and he doesnt have any secret identities that I know of so I can openly brag about how good he is.  I worked with him on the snowboard app that was shown at CES among many other projects. He’s also the mastermind behind [...]

First I wake up to the news that Laurent Bugnion (the code trotter himself) will be working with identity mine. This is fantastic news for us as Laurent is amazingly talented and incredibly fun to work with. Read his post here.   I’m so excited about it I wore my identity mine logo wear (untucked of course, [...]

<ShamelessPlug> Just saw a post on Jackson Fish Market about this article. Apparently startups are scrimping on coffee.. This is a travesty… One that I am happy to say that identity mine is definitely not a part of. We requested cafeine and identity mine delivered. We just purchased a Rancilio Silvia and Rocky for our new Pioneer [...]

Its been a long time since I have blogged but now Robby’s nerd+art website has got me jazzed about doing some silverlight work…im working on a DesignersLoveSilverlight section to my blog.   I’ve been busy with lots of WPF client development as usual and added to that we have welcomed two new munchkins into the Dunlap [...]

Whoa! Here is a feature that slipped through cracks for me but is something I have been asking for a long time… I just didnt know they got it into Blend 2. It used to be in Blend that you had to explicitely set a width and height to see your content render (specifically around root [...]

Just read through a bunch of the features coming online in 3.5 sp1 and Im totally stoked.. Microsoft has really done a good job about listening to what we need to make WPF a better programming experience… I can think of 3 - 4 things that I am working on today that will be much [...]

Just read Robby’s excellent post about silverlight templating model. I will start off by admitting that I think Robby is a ton smarter than I am and his intimate experience with helping to define the templating and styling models for WPF make him a much better candidate to see the big picture of this topic. To [...]

Late night here in Vegas and Im totally trying to get work done getting ready to deliver our Nerd+Art talk tomorrow. Listening to NIN Ghosts I-IV. Pretty sweet… Add this to Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” because I wanted to support an artist who is testing the waters with direct distribution. (It’s ironic that Im excited about [...]

Karsten and Jaime’s white paper on “How XAML Transforms the Collaboration Between Designers and Developers in Windows Presentation Foundation” is included in the goody bag (that Mark so graciously gave me since speakers don’t get one…lame) This is a really nice addition to the “mix” of stuff that we get here.

Well here we are… Mix 08. My third year here and it is feeling routine to be in Vegas every spring. Pretty exciting to see everybody. Laurent has already been here for the pre-sessions and has been blogging like crazy.  I’ve already run into Walt, Mike and Joe, Darren and Nathan… I know that Than [...]

Terrific news! We’ve just announced our next two Blendables Mix products. 3D and Layout. Check them out at http://www.blendables.com It seems like there are 2 holy grail pieces to really getting 3D to come into its own in WPF… The first piece, Interactive 2D on 3D has a pretty cool solution on codeplex. The second piece, [...]

“Express Yourself! Create and share your work with other members of the Expression Community. Get inspired. Get creative. Get noticed.” http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx Also check out ScottGu’s demo of Expression Blend working with Silverlight 2.0. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/28/first-look-at-using-expression-blend-with-silverlight-2.aspx

You would probably only know this if you had installed the Syndicated Client Experiences starter kit or recently downloaded the latest version of the Seattle PI Reader but now the two are integrated. Now that there is more than just the MSDN Reader in the list you can start to really see the value of [...]