IRhetoric - Karsten JanuszewskiAvalon: Convergence in the SimulacrumFLITTERBOOK: INTEGRATING WITH THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM- May 25, 2007 I'm here at the Facebook Developer's event down here in San Francisco. Dan'l Lewin from Microsoft was on stage as a parter: Lots of good stuff announced as far as FacebookMicrosoft partnership: Microsoft just released a great wrapper to the Facebook API written by the guys at Clarity Consulting. They've got some nice sample applications, including a cool WPF app that is a rolodex of your Facebook contacts. Also, Popfly also added support for the Facebook API to their mashup.http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/24/flitterbook-integrating-with-the-faceboo... THREE NEW EXPRESSION BLEND HANDS-ON LABS- May 22, 2007 I just posted three new hands-on labs for Expression Blend that were created for MIX but haven't been posted for the world yet. There's lots of little nuggets in there worth checking out, things like creating a user controls, databinding, triggers, styling controls, using web services, paging, data input and more. The more I use Blend, the more I love it, but it has its own learning curve, above and beyond WPF. The first lab is a UI for Windows Live Search, including Image...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/22/three-new-expression-blend-hands-on-labs... TWITTERPATED: ON TWITTER AND CONFERENCES- May 17, 2007 I'm very interested in the phenomenon of Twitter. In this piece, I want to write about a particular aspect of Twitter and the one that I'm most familiar with, the usage of Twitter at conferences. In fact, I was first turned on to Twitter at South by Southwest Interactive. They had monitors scattered about the conference with a visualization of everyone who was using Twitter at the conference. Thought balloons would float by with the person's icon, realtime. In fact, here.http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/17/twitterpated-on-twitter-and-conferences.... DIGGING INTO LUTZ ROEDER'S MONOTONE- May 10, 2007 Check out Lutz Roeder's Monotone -- very, very cool. Pay close attention to how tightly synched the animation is with the visuals. I've been digging into the source code and there are several techniques he uses that are worth calling out. First, it is interesting to note how the entire logic of the experience is controled in code. There is nothing in Page.xaml. It is in the constructor of his Page class that he wires up his Loaded event and it is in the Loaded...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/10/digging-into-lutz-roeder-s-monotone.aspx WPF Momentum Video Posted- May 9, 2007 I just posted a high resolution copy of the WPF Momentum video shown during Ray Ozzie's MIX07 keynote for downloading. If you don't want to take the 32mb download hit, you can always watch it streamed via Silverlight.http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/09/wpf-momentum-video-posted.aspx TRANSITION AND REVEAL: NEW CUSTOM CONTROLS FOR WPF, UPDATED AVALON FEATURE FEST- May 9, 2007 Kevin Moore very quietly released a new bag o' tricks that has two of the coolest controls for WPF that I've seen in awhile: transition and reveal. Transition is gnarly: it provides the infrastructure to create a visual transition between any two visuals in WPF. These visuals could be controls, vector graphics, images, 3D or, really, anything. What is nice is that the architecture of the control is extensible, such that you can define a new transition quite...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/08/transition-and-reveal-new-custom-control... SILVERLIGHT SCREENCASTS, CHICKENS AND DINOSAURS- May 8, 2007 Technorati tags: silverlight, expression blend Tim recently posted a list of all the Silverlight screencasts that are being hosted up on silverlight.net. I authored five of them, all of which are focused on using Blend, which I fall more in love with each passing day. The first three, which you can find here and here and here, are pretty darned simple, showing different vector drawing tools in Blend and animation techinques in the service of making a vector chicken cluck. The...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/07/silverlight-screencasts-chickens-and-din... FLITTER: SOURCE POSTED- May 1, 2007 (Updated 621) -- Please go check out http:flotzam.com which is the released incarnation of this software! I just posted the screen saver source to Flitter here. It is now entirely configurable, both for Flickr and Twitter. To install, right click on the .scr file and click Install. Click the settings button from within the screen saver user interface to configure it. This runs ONLY on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. If you are on XP or Server, you'll need.http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/04/30/flitter-source-posted.aspx |