Archive for September, 2008
Very useful little resource this. Stock Exchange is a site that’s been around for years and one of the few sources of free, good quality imagery. URL: http://www.sxc.hu My header image is cropped from one of Yarrik Mission’s portfolio pics. See full portfolio at: http://mission.photosight.ru Technorati Tags: Resource,Creative
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For all of you that are looking for ‘short n snappy’ intros to Silverlight – here they are – FREE Technorati Tags: Silverlight 2,Training,Online Learning Here’s a series of 50 videos that provide a comprehensive guide to Silverllight, including: Layout Controls Data binding Styling Sockets Cross-domain requests Multi-threading Html interoperability + great tips etc. The […]
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3-Day WPF Boot Camp 2008
If you’re keen to get started on WPF, here’s a great online resource for the 3-day boot camp that you can watch and download. URL: http://visitmix.com/university/wpf/bc08/default.aspx
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Expression Blend Demo
I demo’d “Building a WPF application in Expression Blend” at Tech-Ed SA 2008 and a couple of people have asked for it. I must give credit to my colleague Michael Koster from Germany, as it’s actually his demo that I repurposed. And his demo is based on the presentation shown at MIX08 in Vegas earlier […]
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Tags: Expression Blend, Expression Studio, Tech-ed 2008, WPF
One of the trials of having a Mac running Vista (Windows) is the loss of certain features such as the ‘print screen’ button. I have been using Irfanview until now, but today the gods of good fortune smile upon me as I was introduced to Jing. This is an incredibly useful and cool little app […]
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Tags: Useful stuff
Project Rosetta
What is Project Rosetta? Project Rosetta is a site dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know. Visit the site: http://www.projectrosetta.com Very useful series of 10 articles, written by one of the masters, Richard Barraza (Senior Experience Architect) from Cynergy Systems. They were the winners […]
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Tags: Flash, Silverlight
