Both Yet Another Carousel (YAC) and the WPF training site (which uses YAC) have been ported to Silverlight Beta 2.
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I recently removed the pull from Twitter on my blog. Because they have been down so much and because that widget is not AJAX-ified, it was causing my blog page to fail to load. Interesting consequence of using services in the cloud and making me remember that everything has to be asynch and de…
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I recently wanted to put together a portfolio page of the various code and samples that I've worked on over the last few years. To do so, I created a very simple xml file, which you can see here. Then, I decided to create two different UI experiences to display the UI, one in ASP.NET and…
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I have a Windows Mobile 5.0 cellphone and realized recently that all my text messages were locked up on the phone -- ActiveSync doesn't sync them. There's probably applications out there that will archive your text messages, but being a dev, I figured I'd do it myself. Unfortunately, the…
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Effective UI has put together a site called the User Interface Resource Center. They were kind enough to interview me about WPF, Silverlight, Expression and more. As they put it: In the 2008 whitepaper “The New Iteration,” Karsten Januszewski teams up with Jaime Rodriguez…
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It was almost a year ago that the transition controls were quietly released for WPF, which I blogged about and included in the WPF Feature Fest (source and deployed app): The guts of this project is now available as Transitionals on Codeplex. A lot of the code has been refactored quite ni…
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Just came across this video on Adaptive Path's blog of Bruce Sterling talking about Interaction Design: Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo. Missed him at SxSW this year, but this video gave me my fix. He's really clear on what spimes are right at the beginning. He has to…
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Here is a guide for using Flotzam at a conference: Flotzam at a conference is fun. It gives the audience the ability to immediately participate in the event as well as on the blogosphere. Their photos, twitters, etc, show up on the big screen. If you would like to see Flotzam in action, you can (1…
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I realized that the code base I used for Flotzam for the MIX conference was not posted and there are a few interesting things that have been updated in the code that people may be interested in: For MIX, we displayed photos that were posted to the MIX event on Facebook. How do you get all …
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Was watching a Channel 9 interview on the DLR and found out about LOLCODE. Too funny. …
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