IRhetoric - Karsten JanuszewskiAvalon: Convergence in the SimulacrumAnnouncing Flotzam: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Blog Mash Up- June 21, 2007 Awhile back, for MIX, Tim Aidlin and I built Flitterbook. We liked it so much that we now have version 2, renamed Flotzam, ready for your consumption. Lots of improvements, including a new UI, RSS support, Facebook notifications and complete configuration control. Also, check out the Silverlight-created video that is a screen capture of the application in action. So, we'd love for you to go check it out, let us know what you think on the Flotzam forum and watch the Flotzam...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/21/announcing-flotzam-twitter-flickr-facebo... COLLABORATING ON CREATING ANIMATIONS IN WPF AND BLEND: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS- June 20, 2007 One area that is currently top of mind for me is designer and developer collaboration with WPF and Expression Blend, in particular around animation. I'd like to start documenting some techniques and outlining things that can and can't be done. Before diving in, let's quickly review the animation system in WPF. The two ways to do animation in WPF is either declaratively (XAML) or procedurally (code). If you use Expression Blend to create your animations,..http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/20/collaborating-on-creating-animations-in-... Microsoft Facebook Toolkit Is Open Sourced and Moves to Codeplex- June 9, 2007 It was two weeks ago that Microsoft released the Microsoft Facebook Toolkit. The response has been great and an wiki popped up that people in the community were using to make enhancements to the toolkit and make fixes. As a result, Clarity Consulting (who developed the original toolkit for Microsoft) has posted the toolkit to Codeplex. This now formalizes a way for the toolkit to continue to evolve and, even better, for all developers to get the latest and greatest...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/08/microsoft-facebook-toolkit-is-open-sourc... CREATING A .NET TWITTER API in 4.5 SECONDS- June 8, 2007 I've been meaning to document how I wrapped the Twitter API ... in 4.5 seconds. There is a very powerful feature in .NET is a tool in the sdk called xsd.exe. Darren David actually has a fabulous post on exactly the power of this tool: never touch a DOM or XPATH again! His post explains what is happening under the hood with xsd.exe quite nicely. I'd definitely recommend reading his post. I figured it might be interesting for folks to...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/08/creating-a-net-twitter-api-in-4-5-second... UPDATED WPF PERFORMANCE PROFILING TOOLS POSTED- June 7, 2007 A new version of the WPF Performance Profiling tools has been posted, x86 and x64, as an .msi. These tools were previously only available in the beta .NET Framework 3.5 SDK, but that is a rather hefty dowload at over 1 gig. Now, you can get at these invaluable tools as a simple download which is less than 1mg. If you are a WPF developer and aren't using these tools, download immediately! If you are using the existing wpfperf.exe tools, the recommendation is to move to the new..http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/07/updated-wpf-performance-profiling-tools-... UDDI RESOURCES MIGRATED- June 5, 2007 This post has nothing to do with WPF, Expression, Silverlight, Vista or pixels. Rather, it has to do with web service discovery and with my former role at Microsoft in working with UDDI. I had a bunch of resources up on GotDotNet which I have had to migrate with the phase-out of GotDotNet. These resources include a couple of interesting white papers I wrote on using UDDI to catalog RSS, how to register RSS in the Windows Server implementation of UDDI and a WinForms sample using the...http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/06/05/uddi-resources-migrated.aspx |