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Apple’s new Cupertino campus: Wow!
Here are some still images from a recent presentation Steve Jobs gave to the Cupertino City council. Amazing stuff. Sorry about the low res quality, these came off of the 240p video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuz5OmOh_M Old and new campus land...
Mole 2010 has shipped!
Read Josh Smith’s post about it here: http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/mole-2010-has-shipped/ Read More...
We did the diet coke + mentos experiment for the kids over the weekend. mentos made it awesome. spiderman slippers made it awesomer.
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The Hand Tool in Expression Blend 4
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...
Mid-year Reviews: Best Albums of 2010 So Far
It’s that time of year: mid-year reviews. We’ve traditionally kept things to a single yearly review, but we’re moving to the semi-annual model so that we can provide more consistent feedback and, you know, keep everyone motivated. So...
The Tendency to Overdesign
I got an email tonight with a great question and I thought I’d share my thoughts / gather some feedback. Here’s the question: One problem that I have always had  that after I design a website or Silverlight application I tend to start...
Ummm OK?
Okay, I get the idea but come on… Talk about verbose errors. I guess it’s better than “Argument out of range.” Custom tool warning: There was a validation error on a schema generated during export: Validation Error: Wildcard ‘##any’...
Getting a DialogResult from a WPF window
A frequent scenario in UI applications is gathering information for later use. Dialog windows are a common way to solicit this information. Modal dialogs have an advantage over other types of windows in that the user has to answer your questions before...
10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight
Titilium Very nice sans serif that works well for display. Comes in many weights. I’ve actually used this font a lot in WPF for display and had good luck with it. It’s a little square so it leaves the UI looking a little futuristic if you...
My (very) short list of must read books for aspiring designers #mix10
All fantastic books. There are other great books, but for me these are the essentials. 1.       How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman  //  AmazonThis is the book to read if you want to understand...
Top Albums 2009
I realize that 2010 is officially 1/12 over and so any excuse about waiting until the last minute to allow for late breaking slam dunks is going to seem disingenuous. The truth is that over Christmas vacation, I compiled most of the list and even wrote...
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Fix for WordPress XMLRPC 500 Error
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...
Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow Release Candidate
Believe me when I say you need to ditch your old version of Blend and install the latest here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=92e1db7a-5d36-449b-8c6b-d25f078f3609 Blend is amazing now! Expect reviews from me...
The Gu has spoken! Silverlight 3 is shipped!
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-3-released.aspx This is a great release… something MSFT should really be proud of and a real enabler for amazing experiences across multiple platforms. I am just finishing up my first...
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