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30 October 2007
RIA: 10 Questions on Icon Design - I ask our Microsoft Design folks to respond.

I have an Icon fetish that is disturbingly wrong. In that I collect them, horde them and will happily spend Microsoft's good hard earned money on as many of them as I can find - if allowed. Yet, what makes Icon's so special? in that why do they enhance Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, RIA, Microsoft, XAML, Expression Design, Icons, RIA Producer, RIA Handbook, Rich Internet Application, Rich Interactive Application

 

17 September 2007
Silverlight Masking Demo

I've been playing around with masking and trying to think up new ways to approach the axis in which Silverlight can play. In this demo, my approach was to see how I could put in a fake 3D (2D) room with two walls playing video on them, along with reflections Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Microsoft, XAML, Conference

 

05 August 2007
Clawing our way beyond the browser.

RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) have this approach that's quite unique, in that they kind of want to sit with fingers in both barrels. On one hand, they want to stay within the browser whilst on other hand they want to breach the browser and live Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET 3.0, RIA, Microsoft, XAML

 

29 June 2007
Is Wikipedia biased towards Silverlight?

I'm getting my presentation together for Perth BarCamp tomorrow, and in my assembly of this awesome presentation I stumbled upon the Wikipedia for Silverlight. It has the usual guff around what it is, where it come from and so on, but one thing that stood Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Microsoft, XAML, Wikipedia, Apple, Linux, SVG

 

31 May 2007
I predicted Microsoft Surface in September 2005

It was 29th September 2005 , I posted on my old blog " AJAX is a one trick poney " (yes, it should be pony). Inside my rant you'll find the following snippet "..Content is king, and always will be but how does one access the content, thats the key deciding Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Mobile, WPF, AJAX, .NET 3.0, RIA, Microsoft, XAML, XBOX 360, Microsoft Surface

 

22 April 2007
Thanks Silverlight, you just validated RIA (Wrong, here's why)

In 2002 one of the guys ( Jeremy Allaire) whom I owe my house & lifestyle to, came up with an idea that Rich Internet Applications (RIA) should exist in a certain way, with a certain direction going forward. I trusted his idea, as the last one was Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flex, Adobe, AJAX, RIA, Microsoft, LiveCycle, XAML, DHTML