Entries from December 2007

Silverlight how-to: Animate a grid of tiles

Date December 20, 2007

An integral part of our proof-of-concept for the Phizzpop design challenge was a grid of tiles that represented a variety of TV shows and Movies. Transitioning from screen to screen we needed to repopulate this grid with a new set of tiles based on search criteria and filters. To improve the effect of [...]

Visual Studio Install Fest – Tempe AZ

Date December 10, 2007

Today Microsoft announced that it will be hosting a Visual Studio Install Fest at the Tempe Center for the arts on  December 20th 2007.  Here is what Microsoft has to say about it.
The end of the year brings about a time of celebration. It is a time to embrace friends, family and the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 and [...]

Eye-Fi

Date December 8, 2007

Eye-fi is a magical orange SD memory card that will not only store 2GB worth of pictures, it’ll upload them to your computer, and to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa (or 14 others) wirelessly, invisibly, automatically! I have to get one of these things. Imagine how cool it would be to [...]

Microsoft Phizzpop LA design challenge

Date December 8, 2007

After 4 incredibly intense days, Microsoft’s Phizzpop LA design challenge is complete and Cynergy Systems is the winner. Congratulation’s Cynergy!  I was certainly disappointed that we did not win, but with only 7 minutes to present your strategy, design and concept everyone had a chance to win.
After catching up on some overdue sleep, [...]