Monthly Archives: December 2008

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued