Entries from April 2008

Silverlight 3D flip animation

Date April 25, 2008

Up until now I have not had an opportunity to create any Silverlight procedural animations that were more complicated then positioning an object with some simple easing. I thought it would be fun to attempt to duplicate one of the transitions used on the iPhone. While making a phone call, if you choose to [...]

Tunnel Trouble on Silverlight.net

Date April 17, 2008

For those of you who might not have seen our presentation at Mix, Terralever recently completed a second Silverlight game for Miniclip.com called Tunnel Trouble. This game is entirely written against the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 plugin. I am not sure that it has been spotlighted on there web site, but Microsoft has placed [...]

Silverlight how-to: Video Player

Date April 10, 2008

Please note: This sample was made into a Code Plex project and is maintained there. Please download all source from http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer/
In my ongoing quest to work with Silverlight 2 I embarked on building my own video player using the standard MediaElement and a few of the new System Controls (ToggleButon, Slider and Button). My [...]

Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for putting security of the internet at risk

Date April 6, 2008

This article is a few weeks old, but quite interesting.  It makes claims that Jobs is using Apple Software Update (specifically iTunes) to piggyback the Safari browser onto Windows machines.  Just last week I was prompted with an Apple update and questioned why Safari was trying to update on my boot camp partition.  I was [...]

Click Me, Baby… One More Time

Date April 4, 2008

Check out this article in the April 2008 issue of OMMA. Scott our Director of Strategy had the following to say about privacy expectations.
But the reality is that there’s a new generation of consumers who have little or no privacy expectations, and they’re going to prove a rich source of performance data, suggests Scott [...]