I’ll be in Minnesota for the next week celebrating my sister’s 34th birthday and my 25th birthday. Posting may be sparse. In the mean time, here are a few albums you should listen to:
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Thievery Corporation - The [...]
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78% of respondents agree that an ecosystem of long-tail conversations is exciting.
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Slate’s posted a tremendously embarassing-looking unclassified Powerpoint deck from the CIA. The twelve pages present a sort-of who’s who guide of Powerpoint design mistakes. I don’t really fault the CIA procurement executive who created it, though; it looks like the result of an official template run amok, coupled with the world’s worst collection of stock art…from [...]
Continuing yesterday’s Silverlight love-fest, I just found a fantastic blog post from Scott Guthrie, the General Manager of the .NET Developer Platform group, that covers virtually every aspect of Silverlight 1.1 in a good deal of depth and includes usable samples. Scott goes into a great deal of detail about the basics of XAML, animation, [...]
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It’s like doing a bodyshot, but with a cracker; a low-fat cracker!
— Anonymous
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Mark Johnston, a Microsoft developer evangelist in the UK, has a bunch of great Silverlight-related content up that covers topics like:
The fundamentals
Animations and Javascript programming
1.1 debugging
A 1 line of code video player
Silverlight Streaming (which I can vouch for as being totally awesome, and incredibly easy to use - I built our video players for Popfly [...]
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This is always a nice way to start a week:
If you haven’t already discovered the world of mashups, Microsoft’s Popfly is a good place to start. Mashups combine multiple Web-based sites or applications to produce all sorts of useful things, such as an overlay of traffic information over Google Maps. With Popfly, you can create [...]
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It hasn’t even been a month since we launched Popfly, but we already finished our first batch of updates for the site with a ton of new features! We have some notes up on our team blog about the new features; here’s an abbreviated list of my favorites:
Silverlight Streaming-hosted videos, so Mac users get a [...]
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I just heard about a fantastic hands-on lab you can download that walks you through building a replica of Outlook 2007’s user interface in WPF. It’s fantastic to see such detailed, useful examples of building Avalon content finally coming out. Being able to build reflections into your application launcher is all well and good, but [...]
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I was just reading a truly bizarre (yet oddly heartwarming) story on MSNBC about how a deaf mother dolphin and her newborn calf are getting along at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys, but I was terribly disheartened to discover the lack of proofing present in a few paragraphs:
Officials hope the calf [...]
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