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So you’re an interactive designer or developer and you have been hearing about Silverlight. Now you want to teach yourself how to use the design tool for creating Silverlight applications, Expression Blend. Where do you go? http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc136535.aspx#ExpressionBlendTrainingVideos Read More...
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It seems like there’s real interest in freelance designers who are proficient in Silverlight and Expression Blend. In the past week, two of my customers came to me asking where to find freelance resources. I just posted one such opening for Read More...
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A partner of mine, eblizz in Los Angeles is working on a new Silverlight-based site and needs a freelance designer fluent in Silverlight and Expression Blend: We need an experienced Silverlight designer for freelance work in December and maybe January. Read More...
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In preparation for the upcoming release of Silverlight 2, we have released Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) to developers to start the process of updating their code. Scott Guthrie just wrote about this in his blog yesterday. All of the details,...( Read More...
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One of the fun Silverlight 1 applications that I built over the past year was Ball Watch's Trainmaster Cannonball ( http://xmldocs.net/ball ). After seeing an ad in Wired magazine, I contacted the manufacturer with an idea and was sent a 2.93 MB...( Read More...
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Over the past few months, I have been working on a Silverlight kit for Photobucket's API . I have used this sample to demonstrate a few things: How to build an API kit for a REST Library How to adapt existing .Net code to Silverlight (OAuth Library)...( Read More...
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Next week I will be in New York City meeting customers and I will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF applications with Expression Studio and Visual Studio. ...( Read More...
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I love using Expression Blend. With both a design education (architecture) and a career in software development, I've become somewhat of an expert on using Microsoft's Expression Blend for designing WPF and Silverlight user experiences. Over...( Read More...
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If you have any interest in Expression Blend or how I made these journals , you should vote for the two panels that I've submitted for the South by Southwest (SxSW) 2009 interactive festival : Extreme Expression Blend for Silverlight Designers - as many...( Read More...
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I created something cool that I'd like to share with you. Imagine if your company had a beautiful luxury product that had intricate workings and you wanted to show how it worked as well as have a way for the product's owners and fans to show it...( Read More...
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I know it's short notice, but next week I am running a 2-day training on Expression Blend 2.5 and Silverlight 2 in San Francisco for Interactive Designers . I have a few openings left so if you are interested in coming May 20 and 21 to the Microsoft...( Read More...
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If anyone went to the Google home page today (I'm sure there were a few) they would have found the Google banner commemorating 50 years of the LEGO block. LEGO blocks were my favorite toy as a child; I spent hours building, rebuilding, designing, creating,...( Read More...
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If you want to see some great graphic effects in Silverlight and learn how to do them, you've got to go over to this website and see a tutorial on how to do this effect in Expression Blend and Silverlight....( read more ) Read More...
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This week, I invited designers and developers in my Media and Entertainment accounts and creative agencies that work with them to a workshop in Los Angeles where they learned about Expression Blend and Silverlight. It was a great mix of designers and...( Read More...
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We just completed an 2-1/2 day Expression Blend and Silverlight training course in Denver for some of our communications sector customers and really saw some eyes light up. Our intention was to give our customers some hands-on experience with Expression...( Read More...
I am now a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft!
