Author Archives: Nick Harewood

Expression Blend 3 Nuggets - Pt. 1

By Nick Harewood | June 29, 2009

This is the first of a series of short blogs documenting some of the little features and improvements that have been making me smile since starting our latest Silverlight project at Synetrix, using Microsoft Expression Blend 3.
On the whole it’s been a good first couple of weeks getting to know version 3.  I would have [...]

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Silverlight Insight talk on Real World Experience

By Nick Harewood | April 1, 2009

Had an enjoyable afternoon out at Birmingham University yesterday.  Was there to give a talk on our ‘Real World Experience’ at Synetrix over the last 12 months.  The theme was to follow our progress along the Learning curve of our journey in adopting Silverlight – from first principles, to our current level of expertise; titled [...]

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CrowdSourcing - Fishing for Complimentary Work?

By Nick Harewood | March 28, 2009

I received this email from a good friend and former colleague yesterday; a very experienced senior web designer who’s been away travelling for the last 8 months or so.
My old boss sent me this as way to get working again when I get back but it looks a bit like you do loads of graft [...]

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MIX09 retrospective

By Nick Harewood | March 21, 2009

After a pretty crazy few days of sensory and information overload in Vegas, it’s time to look back and take stock of what has come out of the conference.  I’m writing this from by the Pool at the Venetian – it’s nice to have time to myself again, and no obligations save making sure i [...]

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MIX09 – Day 0

By Nick Harewood | March 18, 2009

After a great couple of days spent chilling out in and around Boulder City, NV - I headed to Vegas, dumping the rental car and ‘enjoying’ a high-speed taxi ride to the Venetian.  I think the driver may have had too much coffee, as he also drove off as soon as i had paid and [...]

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Looking forward to MIX09 - Silverlight 3

By Nick Harewood | March 17, 2009

Having spent the last 9 months working with Silverlight on a daily basis, I’ve grown to love it and hate it – on a roughly 80% - 20% split. The love is down to its power and potential, the things that are possible – and (having gained expertise throughout our team) the speed with which [...]

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“Implementing MVVM in Silverlight” – a UI perspective

By Nick Harewood | February 27, 2009

During the course of our current project we have been through a few iterations of our development process, with one goal being to find the best way for us Designers to work in Expression Blend on data driven controls.  There has been a bit of pain involved along the way and we’re yet to find [...]

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