XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2010
Expression Blend is a nice supplemental tool for Visual Studio developers. Blend contains tools that will simplify Silverlight or WPF UI creation. For example, if you want to edit a control template in a WYSIWYG designer, then Blend is the tool for you. There simply is nothing comparable in Visual Studio. Unfortunately, once you start [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2009
Just in case I need this for future updates to WordPress. http://ardentdev.com/fix-for-wordpress-xmlrpc-500-internal-server-error/ One of my WordPress-based sites was not working when I tried to publish posts containing images from Windows Live Writer. I was getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I ran the new latest version of Web Platform Installer. I think there is a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2009
I started this blog back in early 2007 because I wanted a place to talk about WPF, one of the coolest UI engines to ever emerge from the Microsoft campus. I’d already been blogging for three years on other programming topics but I wanted a fresh start. It was the first day of the year [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design, Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2009
Painting with light creates vivid images. Sometimes called ‘light graffiti’. From Recycle Bean 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 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.
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 Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2009
Here’s another interesting data visualization idea. Take the Google news feed and generate a heat map. Click on an item in the heat map to read the news story. The application, named Newsmap, sports a number of filters, color codes the items by category (Technology is green) and uses color to signify the age of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2009
Which of these two web site designs do you prefer? The one on the left or the one on the right? What about the next two? Which has the better design? Voting chooses a winner It’s a simple idea really. Take screenshots of two candidates from a pool of submitted web sites. Show them [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2008
The biggest change in Office 2007 was the new Ribbon based UI. That Ribbon is loved by many and loathed by some. According to the data I saw from Microsoft the Office Ribbon has a high satisfaction factor among Office 2007 adopters. Trend Setter What was the first thing that happened when Microsoft released Office [...]
