XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in WPF on Feb 6th, 2009
Microsoft has had an academic division for a long time. Some years it seems more active in producing material for schools and teachers than in others. I’ve had some experience working in this area. About six years ago I did some work producing a .NET Train the Trainer course for college professors. I also worked [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2009
Akimoto Fat Font http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/hiekkagraphics/akimoto/regular/ See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial design. Just maybe they’ll help wake up your inner designer.
You know the drill. You’re working on a presentation or document and you need a picture. If you want to search locally you pull up Windows Explorer and enter a search term. If you are lucky you find the picture you want an paste into your application. Actually I use Copernic Desktop Search instead of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2009
Another example from Hicks Design http://hicksdesign.co.uk/work/nuance-labs-logo See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial design. Just maybe they’ll help wake up your inner designer.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2009
Looking for a little chuckle for the day? Via Scott Cate I heard about this 404 error page. http://www.admin2gd1-designs.com/funny/error404/ Go to the link, it’s funnier than the screen-shot.
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 4th, 2009
Hicks Design on FontExplorer Pro http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/recent-work-fontexplorer-pro See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial design. Just maybe they’ll help wake up your inner designer.
Posted in Silverlight, WPF on Feb 4th, 2009
Mike Taulty had a small problem. He wanted to demonstrate the power of the WPF controls in action. There are so many controls available that exploit the power of WPF. Obviously there are the ones built into WPF, and the ones in the WPF toolkits. Don’t forget all those third party control suites from IndentyMine, [...]
Posted in WPF on Feb 4th, 2009
Do you find yourself struggling to remember all the settings for WPF bindings? Perhaps taping this three page cheat sheet to your office wall would help. http://www.nbdtech.com/Free/WpfBinding.pdf Sample Edit: Cheat sheet created by Nir Dobovizk
Posted in WPF on Feb 3rd, 2009
I was honored to be asked to join the WPF Disciples group last year. The caliber of discussion in this invitation only group is top notch. It is one of my favorite discussion groups, though I don’t get to participate as much as I would like. WPF Disciples…the name says it all. We are bunch [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 3rd, 2009
Cut paper designs by Yulia Brodskaya http://www.artyulia.com/index.php/Illustration/PAPERgraphic/2 See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial design. Just maybe they’ll help wake up your inner designer.
