I blogged about this opportunity back in January and yesterday I and about a dozen other developers sat in with US based Blend Guru Adam Kinney to go over opportunities for working with Blend and Silverlight ‘from a design perspective’. In the morning Adam gave us a thorough interactive walk through of the principal design... Continue Reading →
Notes on Silverlight.Desk to Silverlight.WP7 migration
“One mans journey converting http://FromTheMalverns/Spot from a Silverlight Desktop App to a Windows Mobile 7 App hosted in the market place. UPDATE: Having now caught up with some of the MIX sessions I would advise that the best way to manage a Desktop SIlverlight and WP7 App is together, in the same solution file... Continue Reading →
Mix 10
Not at Mix this year but testament to my geekness I was watching Scott Guthrie on the live feed – they asked for questions, I fired mine off on twitter and the Gu answered. How cool is that?
The Eco Olympics
Put a lot of work into this over a very short period of time and was quite chuffed with the result (see http://TheEcoOlympics.com). I like the basic functionality and plan on making it data driven so that I can easily add new events over time. Still need to do some more work on ensuring that... Continue Reading →
Silverlight Blend Design Day
Having done all my Silverlight coding in Visual Studio (and keen to get into Blend) this looks right up my street. Here is the blurb: A Silverlight Design Day is opportunity to learn about Silverlight and Expression Blend from a design and interface developer perspective. The first half of the day will start out with... Continue Reading →
PDC09 – Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4 beta ! This was the big day 2 news!. Tim Heur has a good overview of the new features here: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx If you want to get stuck in you can download the bits here: And there are some great training videos already published on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/ and on Silverlight.Net: http://silverlight.net/learn/ Silverlight 3... Continue Reading →
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