March 20, 2009Each year at Tech-Ed they have a set of sessions called “Birds-of-a-Feather” these sessions are open discussions around topics that the community has interest in. No formal powerpoint presentations, just a moderator and a bunch of people that have similar interests. This year I submitted a topic that I would love to be included. If [...]
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March 1, 2009When I think back to where Silverlight was just a year ago, it is so exciting to see how far it has come and how much the community has embraced it. Recently I stumbled upon a nice Silverlight podcast called Sparkling client. Sparkling Client is a podcast by Eric Mork about Silverlight and other RIA [...]
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February 17, 2009Yesterday I was working on some Silverlight production and needed to create a custom UserControl that had some text. The trick was that I wanted the user placing the control to choose which color the text would be, inturn effecting the second key frame on a simple ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames My animation was really simple, I wanted [...]
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November 15, 2008Marketing Playbook: 7 Online Marketing Strategies to Build a Competitive Advantage Presenter: Scott McAndrew, Director of Strategy, Terralever When: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 2:00pm Eastern (11:00am Pacific) Duration: 60 minutes Includes Live Q&A As the world of marketing continuously changes, organizations of all sizes must take a critical eye on where their prospects and customers [...]
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September 22, 2008This week Microsoft published the latest issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this latest issue I was asked to contribute the first of a six part series of [...]
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September 4, 2008November 1-2, 2008 there is an interesting conference taking place at University of Advancing Technology (UAT) in Tempe, AZ. This conference is described as a FREE BarCamp-style community conference. The audience is podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in New Media. here is a list of some of the presentations you could [...]
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August 15, 2008This week I was having a conversation with my younger brother and he was telling me about this new RIA platform for Java called JavaFX (He’s an interactive Java developer). From what he told me it sounded pretty cool, a lot like version 1 of Silverlight. Here is what I found on the Sun website: [...]
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July 25, 2008Today I received a comment on a Poll I created which asked the question “Will Flash developers learn Silverlight”? 20% said there was no chance unless Microsoft bought Adobe. Here is what the comment has to say. “Nobody in their right mind will use SilverLight on the internet for a long time…..Until a user can [...]
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July 25, 2008Wednesday I had the great opportunity to participate in the second annual f8 developers conference in San Francisco. Last year I attended on behalf of Terralever, one of only about 30 selected launch partners. A few weeks before the first f8, Terralever was asked to develop two proof of concepts apps that demonstrated the power [...]
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