Best MIX Keynote Yet
My hats of to Microsoft today for putting on a truly inspiring keynote. Deborah Adler shared her story of…
XAML Scrubber for VS
Pete took me up on an my challenge to make a VS plugin for XAML Scrubber (the XAML cleanup…
Kaxaml Swag
With MIX quickly approaching, it’s time for the (soon-to-become) annual tradition of producing some Kaxaml swag. Last year I…
How To Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
I just finished this and it was good enough that I wanted to share a couple of thoughts.…
New Version of Kaxaml with Support for Silverlight 2 RTW
File this one under “it took you long enough.” I’m (reluctantly) proud to announce that I finally posted…
Deep Linking + Browser History Navigation in Silverlight
Deep linking is a strange term and the first time I heard it was while I was giving a…
Become a Kaxaml Power User in about 7 Minutes
I took my new Jing Pro account to task today and recorded a few videos about Kaxaml. I’ve been…
10K is Way Less than You Think
Snowed in over the weekend, I started on my submission to the MIX 10K challenge. I’m pretty sure that whoever…
Free Typefaces for your WPF Of Silverlight Project
Update: Make sure to note that there are all sorts of different licenses here and you’ll need to verify…
Running Custom Code / Firing Custom Events from Within Storyboards
I’ve been doing a lot of animation sequencing (i.e. creating really big storyboards) in Silverlight lately and it’s…
ToolBox Panels
Lately I’ve been making a point of being a little more organized about how I track reusable code. …
Kaxaml Now Supports Silverlight2 Beta2
It’s been a long time coming: Kaxaml finally supports the latest version of Silverlight. Woohoo! Sorry to those who have…
Blend Modes? You’re Soaking In It
It turns out that being a freelancer is about twice as much work as you expect. It’s been…
A Fond Farewell
There’s been a lot of good news at IdentityMine in the last couple of weeks: Laurent decided to join…
Silverlight Particle Generator
I’ve been experimenting with particle generation a little bit over the weekend. I guess that if I were…
ThoughtBox: End of Weekend Progress
Well, 4:00PM was my deadline, so here’s where we landed. That’s a screenshot of the running app. I…
Weekend Project: Building an App
Here’s the deal. I’m a recent discoverer/convert/believer of Getting Things Done (the personal productivity book by David Allen). As I’ve…
A Survey of Silverlight 3D
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a little time trying to get my finger on the pulse…
Super Easy Animated Layout in Silverlight
I’ve been meaning to write about this one for a while. AnimatingPanelBase is a substitute base class for Panel that…
Super Easy Animated Layout in Silverlight
I’ve been meaning to write about this one for a while. AnimatingPanelBase is a substitute base class for Panel that…
HandDrawnShapes
I usually use time on a plane to write code that I otherwise wouldn’t get to write. TimelinePanel…