Mark Johnston, a Microsoft developer evangelist in the UK, has a bunch of great Silverlight-related content up that covers topics like: The fundamentals Animations and Javascript programming 1.1 debugging A 1 line of code video player...
It hasn’t even been a month since we launched Popfly, but we already finished our first batch of updates for the site with a ton of new features! We have some notes up on our team blog about the new features; here’s an abbreviated list of my favor...
I just heard about a fantastic hands-on lab you can download that walks you through building a replica of Outlook 2007’s user interface in WPF. It’s fantastic to see such detailed, useful examples of building Avalon content finally coming out. Bei...
I was just reading a truly bizarre (yet oddly heartwarming) story on MSNBC about how a deaf mother dolphin and her newborn calf are getting along at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys, but I was terribly disheartened to disc...
Alright, so I’ll readily admit this has nothing to do with UI Design. Nevertheless, if you’re trying to slog your way through the Ruby on Rails API documentation or official wiki you may be much better served checking on Ryan Raaum’s excellent pri...
I just found a wonderfully amusing adaptation of Rocky Horror, as if scripted by lolcatz. Naturally, I decided to wrap it up with a Popfly mashup, which you can see through this link (toucha toucha toucha touch me!). Creating this Popfly mashup wa...
I’ve spent a while today looking over different video websites, and seeing how they go about presenting videos to their users. Some common themes emerge, unsurprisingly, such as the presence of featured videos on the front page (duh). What did sur...
I’m writing specs for our next Popfly iteration at the Starbucks down the street from my apartment, and decided to take a quick break by reading through my email and news feeds (sorry, I can’t tell you what the specs cover). I came across one post...
I have secret inside word that Digg is about to release an update to their site featuring new categories that will help their users find the topics they care about the most that much quicker! Check it out: now you no longer have to go hunting to f...
My boss, John, posted the following a couple hours ago: Well, we saw a lot of people at Maker Faire, but the biggest thing we did was the ducks. Sure we gave a lot of demos, but for every demo we gave we had four kids painting ducks. Here are some...