The Mindjet Labs

I've decided to share the source code for my SilverlightMap project that converts Mindjet MindManager maps to Silverlight application in two venues: Windows Live SkyDrive and Popfly. Windows Live SkyDrive Microsoft Popfly If you want to contribute and participate in the project you can try the new Popfly service.  Download the Popfly ...

One of the first things that I created at Microsoft built on my previous experience at Mindjet, the creators of MindManager, a mind mapping software.  I built a small converter application that transformed a MindManager map into a Silverlight application.  I posted examples of it on my blog as well and I created a Groove Workspace to ...

One of the first demonstrations of Silverlight that I built was a tool that transforms a MindManager Map into a Silverlight Rich Interactive Application for the web.  MindManager user David Walker saw this in my blog and we started chatting.  I was then invited to the Tulsa TechFest to talk about that and other Silverlight-related ...

Four guys out of Bulgaria just built this .Net application for mind mapping.  It looks really cool with a very fresh look!  It was built with WPF and all our latest technology like Silverlight.   I can't wait to try it out when it goes beta on November 1st.  What amazing things could happen if Mindjet would hire these ...

For those of you have heard, a Release Candidate for Silverlight 1.0 was released yesterday.  I had written a few applications using the Silverlight 1.0 Beta and 1.1 Alpha.  Because of some breaking changes, I had to update those applications.  The process was fairly painless; here's what I had to do: Update to the final ...

A few months ago, I create a Microsoft Office Groove 2007 to share the source code for my SilverlightMap project: code to transform a Mindjet MindManager Map into a Silverlight Streaming Application hosted on silverlight.live.com.  For those of you who don't know Groove is Microsoft's Peer-to-Peer workspace solution.  I find it very ...

If you look at the XML generated by the OneNote 2007 API, you will notice that the text outline sections are all escaped with CDATA[] elements.  This, in my opinion is bad form.  I am working on transforming the OneNote XML to Silverlight XAML using XSLT and having that portion of the XML escaped makes it more difficult to parse and ...

I have been working with XML for most of my career, from developing a CAD application to my roles at Mindjet to my new role at Microsoft talking about Silverlight.  In this career, I have given numerous talks about the relevance of XML and to be susinct, I have it boiled down to this: XML is about Partnerships.  Whether that ...

In an interesting twist on a blogroll, Gaelen at Mindjet posted a map of MindManager Bloggers on the Mindjet Blog.  This works because Mindjet has built a passionate following of individuals who cannot do without their flagship software, MindManager.  It's great that Mindjet recognizes these assets in the field and enables them as ...

Just when you get really good at a tool, you find something better.  This happened to me when I moved from C++ to C# for desktop application development.  I see it happening again with Expression Blend which you can use to design windows user interfaces and Silverlight applications. Here is simple application that I built recently to ...