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Hopefully everyone reading this already knows about CodePlex . You do right? No? Well, CodePlex is basically an open source hosting site. It’s a great way to add source control and collaborators to a project. It also is a great place to have your code when you are ready to distribute it to the world...

CodePlex, now with Silverlight →

If you’ve seen/read/heard anything about Silverlight, you probably know by now that it can do animations. In fact, Silverlight has fairly rich animation support. I would like to point out right off that I am a developer, not a designer, and that this post is aimed at other developers. As developers...

Silverlight Animations: What are KeySplines and why should you care? →

[Note: This and all posts in 2009 will include Silverlight applications. If you are reading this post in a RSS reader you may not be able to see this application. Please visit the live post to get the full benefit of the content.] Well here it is, 2009. Did you accomplish everything you set out to do...

2009 is here – now what? →

About 6 months ago I wrote a little piece about how to create simple animations. It would seem that the thing people liked best about that post was not the animation itself but the way in which I included it inline with text. So here’s a little post on how to create that effect. Creating this look is...

Silverlight Trick: Inline Silverlight Apps →

Over the next few weeks, Gavin Leader and I will be giving lunch-time training sessions on Silverlight to our co-workers at Ascentium . While these classes are limited to Ascentium employees, we will be posting a series of articles chronicling this training process. If you work at Ascentium and are not...

Silverlight Training: Week 1 – Introduction to Silverlight →

As we are working towards creating richer applications for our clients and their customers, we need a set of guidelines on what to do and not to do. Well, we’re in luck. Josh Holmes of Microsoft and James Ward of Adobe teamed up a couple weeks ago to deliver a session at JAOO to discuss the do’s...

Architecting RIAs: Do’s and Don’ts →

I've got a busy time coming up, not that that's anything new. Over the next few months I'm speaking at a bunch of different venues, but always about Silverlight. So don't worry, there are plenty of places to hear me blab on about Silverlight. :) Cleveland Silverlight Firestarter It seems that even moving...

Upcoming Speaking Events →

The flow of ideas and assets from design to development has been a sticking point in web development since the beginning of HTML. Designers would create a design, hand it to a developer and the end result was rarely what the designer intended. Sometimes this disconnect was due to the skill of the developer...

Designer - Developer Workflow →

One thing I noticed in moving to Seattle was the apparent lack of community events. Since I'm not one to just complain, I'm doing something about it. www.SeattleD2ig.org For the last couple months I've been working with a small group of like minded people to start a community organization focused on...

Seattle Developer / Designer Interaction Group →

Apparently, getting a book ready to publish is a lot of work, who knew :). Chad and I have both been working hard at making sure our content is up to date with the latest releases, which means the newly released RC0. Luckily for you, our efforts mean that those of you who have purchased the MEAP version...

Silverlight 2 in Action - SALE! →