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• Radiohead Interactive 3D Visualization

  I have seen a couple of tweets about this and I know it’s being blogged, but just wanted to add to the noise. The visuals for a the House of Cards video and a 3D interactive Flash piece were created using a modified version of Papervision3d and... Posted Jul 22 2008, 08:44 AM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• New Fireworks Panel: Gradient Direction Editor

  Over the past several months I’ve been working on a new “BrushManager” panel for Fireworks. I’ve been creating all of the individual pieces as AS3 components, both for ease of development and maintenance reasons. The BrushManager... Posted May 15 2008, 12:56 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General, Styling, Fireworks

• Podder v2 Released

  Josh just posted an update to his WPF-based podcasting app Podder. I have been working with him in my spare time over the past month (or more) to provide a shiny new skin and test out his “structural skinning” concept. Just like my experience... Posted Mar 05 2008, 04:56 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• New Fireworks Panel Preview: ResourceDictionaryPanel

  A couple of months ago I posted a preview video of the “Fireworks Brush Manager”. Since that post I’ve had pretty much no free time to work on the project. I’ve update the layout a bit, added new icons, etc., but haven’t... Posted Mar 01 2008, 02:39 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: WPF, XAML, General, Fireworks

• New Videos Posted: XamRibbon QuickStart and ResourceWashing

  I’ve posted a couple of videos that highlight new features included in NetAdvantage for WPF 2007.2 that we released about a month ago. The first video demonstrates how you can use the samples included in the xamFeatureBrowser to quickly create a... Posted Mar 01 2008, 01:13 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• “McGuffin”-Enabling Image Converter

  A couple of years ago Robby introduced me to the term “McGuffin”, via this post. In his explanation, he admits that he is probably stretching the original intention of the word, and since I’m now interpreting his interpretation, it may... Posted Feb 22 2008, 01:06 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• “McGuffin”-Enabling Image Converter

  A couple of years ago Robby introduced me to the term “McGuffin”, via this post. In his explanation, he admits that he is probably stretching the original intention of the word, and since I’m now interpreting his interpretation, it may... Posted Feb 22 2008, 01:06 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• Infragistics Artwork Updates

  With the release of NetAdvantage for .NET 2008.1, we’ve also rolled out an update to the infragistics.com home page. Front and center on the home page you will see our updated product icons. These icons served as a starting point for artwork updates... Posted Feb 19 2008, 11:35 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: .NET, General

• Sneak Peak: Fireworks Brush Manager

  I’m in the process of building a Brush Manager panel for Fireworks and I’ve posted a video of its current (really rough) state. In addition to including the gradient editing features of my Fireworks Gradient Panel, the Brush Manager will support... Posted Jan 07 2008, 11:42 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• Push Button. Receive Bacon.

  I love this picture. It makes me laugh really hard, then smile for a long time. I encountered this pleasant surprise in a fast-food bathroom last weekend while on a short road trip. I like to try and picture the person who actually did the writing (or... Posted Jan 07 2008, 09:28 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• One Laptop Per Child

  One Laptop Per Child has a “give one get one” program that just started today. For $399, you purchase one laptop as a donation and you get one sent to you. I just purchased one - can’t wait to hand crank that battery! From the web site... Posted Nov 12 2007, 10:53 AM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• Announcing Pistachio - “WPF Resource Visualizer”

  I’m excited to be posting an early build of Pistachio for the WPF Community to get their hands on and try out. Pistachio is a utility I created with fellow Infragistics VDGer Tim Hussey. It’s pretty simple really, you just open a .csproj file... Posted Nov 08 2007, 06:41 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: WPF, XAML, .NET, General

• Attention Adobe Max Attendees

  Continuing my posting craze of the night… Spread the word: Heelies are gonna be hot at Adobe Max 2007 — If you have them, bring them. If you don’t have them, get them! (And learn how to not fall down wearing them). All the cool kids... Posted Sep 10 2007, 10:21 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General, MAX2007

• Project Tangerine

  What is “Tangerine” you ask? Tangerine is a WPF “Exemplar” produced by the Infragistics User Experience Group (UxG) and Visual Design Group (VDG). An Exemplar is the term we use for a reference application. (Click the exemplar... Posted Sep 10 2007, 10:12 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General

• Silverlight 1.0 Book Coming Soon

  I’ve had the good fortune to work on Microsoft Silverlight 1.0, published by Wrox, with a great group of colleagues at Infragistics. We churned this thing out in record time, staying up late, losing sleep, and sacrificing weekends — all while... Posted Sep 10 2007, 09:59 PM by Grant Hinkson Blog Filed under: General