Wow! What a year 2008 has been. We had a meeting to reflect on the year and it’s not till you start to write it down that you realise how much happened in 12 Months. We did quite a bit of travelling (all for work) this year including Seattle, Montreal, New Zealand and every capital…
My Dell XPSM1330 has a 160GB 7200rpm Hard Drive, its > 80% full and the performance is completely gone. I have spent a fair few hours researching a replacement Hard Drive and found the results to be so unintuitive that I’m writing this blog post. The short answer is I’m buying a 500GB 5400rpm drive…
If your interested in developing with the next generation visualisations of Silverlight on top of the Virtual Earth Web Service (VEWS) you can now download the Version 1 release of DeepEarth. http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth/ Visit our online sample site or watch the video: DeepEarth is a mapping control powered by the combination of Microsoft’s Silverlight 2.0…
I was having trouble working out why in WPF when setting a ListBox SelectedIndex in code wasn’t showing my item up as selected. Turns out I had code set on Selector.IsSelectionActive. When we’d set up the look and feel of our ListBox and ListBoxItems we didn’t notice that Blend added the following code on us…
While in Melbourne for Artists in Residence I had time to play with their Surface computer. The killer feature for me isn’t multi-touch but rather multi-user. And what better environment then a coffee table for that? Now to find a suitable project… What applications would you build?
On the 13th June this year we officially kicked off the DeepEarth project at Codeplex. Since then, with some great contributions from team members, the project has evolved into a very compelling control and has already had great interest around the globe.I’m pleased to announce we are very close to a Christmas holiday release, the…
Last week we participated in Australia’s first Artist in Residence training at Microsoft Melbourne. Over a busy 5 days designer and developer pairs undertook a mixture of hands on labs with formal training skilling us up to build our own mini project under the guidance of Shane Morris, Michael Kordahi and Jordan Knight. On the…
