Some house keeping because this post has been in my Live Writer for the past week…On May 27th I had the pleasure to present a MIX 2009 recap to the Atlanta Web Design Group along with Glen Gordon and Dennis Estanislao. I was really impressed with the turnout, the location, and the people. Everyone was [...]
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3 essentials to quickly learning Blend
The past few weeks I’ve been working with a great team at IQ Interactive. Everyone is open and eager to learn Expression Blend and Silverlight, and I so badly want to teach/show them. More often than not though, time is not a friend which makes it critical to identify what people need and want to [...]
Speaking at CodeStock 2009
I’m proud to announce that I’ll be speaking at this years CodeStock. The sessions were selected by a fresh and unconventional method. All attendees, when registering, had the opportunity to vote for three sessions. Out of 60 sessions, my session was in the top 20 of votes received. Thanks to everyone who voted for me, [...]
8 Essential Applications
The past couple weeks I got two new computers. That means twice the installation fun. On my main computer, I installed Windows 7 Beta along with all my apps. Once everything was exactly the way I wanted it and it felt like home…the Blue Screen of Death. Not once, but five times in three days. [...]
Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode
A major annoyance of mine after installing a new instance of Visual Studio is when I open a XAML document for the first time. By default, Visual Studio opens a XAML document in Preview mode (the design on the top and the code view on the bottom). As you start adding more and more elements [...]
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Atlanta Silverlight Meetup
Last night was the first Atlanta Silverlight Meetup. It was great meeting everyone and talking about the current state of Silverlight, architecture, design, and plans for future Silverlight Meetups. The location was great, Gordon Biersch Brewery, and I would highly recommend the upstairs spot for a meetup. Next month we’re moving up north to the [...]
Announcement: IQ Interactive
The past couple weeks have been extremely hectic work, writing, and…this: Next Monday I am joining the dev team at IQ Interactive. It’s an exciting move because they’ve been traditionally excelled in Flash development. Now they are venturing into the world of Silverlight. Initially I’ll be working on an exciting, creative, and ground breaking Silverlight [...]
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Elegant Code
I’m proud to announce that I will be contributing to the blog Elegant Code. They are a super talented group of guys with a rich and diverse area of expertise. For the most part, my posts here at 85turns will be mirrored on Elegant Code, and vice versa. This is an opportunity to reach outside [...]
Looking at Virtual Earth Silverlight Control
A few weeks ago at MIX there were a number of Silverlight 3 announcements. One new component that I don’t think got enough attention was the Virtual Earth Silverlight Control. This essentially makes GIS in Silverlight more palatable. To be fair, this isn’t the first mapping tool for Silverlight. ESRI, the GIS leader, has had [...]
Silverlight team and Twitter
The other night I mildly expressed my frustration about the default size of a UserControl upon creation on Twitter. (Don’t you hate it when Height and Width are automatically specified; I always end up deleting it). Within a few minutes the official twitter account for the Silverlight team pinged me back asking what I would [...]
