After speaking at Saturday’s Multipack event and catching Bruce Lawson’s HTML 5 talk for the second time in a couple of weeks, I had some time to ponder on my walk home through the city.
By the time HTML 5 is prevalent across all major browsers, say maybe up to two years away (and I suspect [...]
Or “Getting R.A.D. with Silverlight and Expression Blend”!
The idea behind this set of talks was to take a look at the options currently available, or on their way for creating Rich Internet Applications. Unfortunately we couldn’t get representation from the Flash community, but Bruce Lawson was there to give his popular talk from FOWA on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
A very insightful, forward thinking set of talks in a great location, with informal and interactive atmosphere.
Or “A great day geeking out”.
This was the first of a more formal series of events put on by the Multipack community of web professionals in Birmingham, and my first time attending, having only recently discovered them via the [...]
Awesome… I’ve finally got a new look for space-scape.
The theme you’re looking at is something of an evolutionary leap from my old site; last updated over 5 years ago and still visible for the moment at www.space-scape.co.uk to give you some context. In fact, as a special treat - take a look at my first [...]
I’ve recently spent some time looking around for information on reducing the size of the compiled XAP file for our Silverlight web app. We have a fairly hefty solution which compiles into a XAP of around 2.5meg. Given the size and complexity of the app – that’s not a bad starting point, and I’m still [...]