A somewhat overdue post, due to a very busy week catching up on work, sleep and feeding back on everything that I learnt during my time in Las Vegas. In looking back at the few days spent attending MIX10, I thought I’d approach it by addressing the various aspects I considered in my pre-MIX [...]
Tomorrow morning at 5.30 AM, I begin the now annual trek from Birmingham, UK to Las Vegas, Nevada for Microsoft’s MIX conference, now in its 5th year. They describe it as being…
… for designers and developers who build innovative consumer web sites. Attendees are coders, strategists, information architects, visual designers, UX professionals and digital marketers. [...]
The voting on session submissions for the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas on March 15th-17th has opened! I have submitted one entry around Designer – Developer collaboration, focussing on best practices with the aim to provide an overview of how to keep designers happy and achieve the best possible outcome for your Silverlight applications.
It’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]