Category: Technology
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And the Winner is…
Two award winners from our stables today. one is Silverlight which landed as one of C|Net’s best 100 Web apps, according to user voting. That’s pretty good for a product that hasn’t actually been released yet! The interest around Silverlight has really surpassed our expectations. The page mentions that Silverlight is young technology and is just getting…
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Silverlight Developer Reference Poster
Print this out in color and put it on your wall. We’re giving the full size versions out at conferences and such but I don’t have any details of how you can guarantee getting one yet. Link to poster PNG
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Free WPF Tools
I’m glad to say that for the first time, we have some free developer tools for XAML and WPF. John Montgomery has blogged about it here and includes some links. Although this is still a CTP, it’s a CTP of some tools that are always free as in beer. The C# patch is up and the VB…
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Microsoft Redefines RIA!
Some people were fussing last week about the latest evil scheme by Micro$oft to take over the world via the insidious renaming of the term Rich Internet Application to Rich Interactive Application. Curses! Foiled again! You got us on that one. After running all the simulations on Hal XP, we calculated that changing that one…
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Silverlight!
Hello to a clean, well-lit name and good riddance to the worst code name ever, “WPF/E”. Well, IceWeasel and Brady Bunch weren’t stellar either but at least they were easier to type. Try typing “WPF/E” five times quickly and you’ll see what I mean. Yes, the quotes have to be around it as well. In…
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Free Online Training for WPF and .NET 3.0
So for a limited time (until Vista ships), Microsoft Learning is offering three free 2-hour “premium clinics” for .NET 3.0 (including WPF). The course is called “Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005”. Note that these are targeted at developers and architects. I haven’t taken a look at these yet but…
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Flex Style Explorer
Our man Peter has just posted an article about the Flex Style Explorer on Macromedia DevNet. Even better, the explorer is there to explore/download so check it out and start exploring. Note that you don’t actually need Flex to play with this. Peter’s a fellow user experience consultant for Macromedia Consulting, and is operating out…
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Wireframing with Flex pt.2
What: I updated the stylesheet that turns any mxml app into a wireframe. V2.0 catches a lot of styling exceptions that snuck by with the first version of this wireframing stylesheet. It also adds wirebox and wire header styles you can add to make sure all the necessary wireframes show up. Why: This stylesheet allows…
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MAX 2004 Presentation
November 8th, 2004I spoke at MAX 2004 with John Bennett of Macromedia Consulting. The presentation is entitled “Creating Rich User Experiences with the Flex Experience Model” (say that five times fast). The presentation went fairly well–no one threw rotten fruit or pointy objects so we can consider that a success. We also ended up with…
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Wireframing with Flex
Here’s a stylesheet that makes a Flex app look like a wireframe and yet remain fully functional. This allows you to prototype using Flex instead of Illustrator or Visio.