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Where is the iPhone UserGroup meeting?

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:33:00 -1300

Hope this helps…

Go to the intersection of Cambridge St and the new Don Tyson parkway. CLICK HERE for a map. At that intersection you will see the below parking lot showing you where to park. From the parking lot there is a walkway to where we are meeting.

Above is the overhead view. Below is what the parking lot looks like. See that path on the left walk down there!!

GO TO THE "X" :) [pictures below]

Sitting area (door in left corner)

You will see the door once you get to the sitting area shown above.

July Northwest Arkansas CocoaHeads meeting. Thursday, July 9, 6-8pm

Come learn about Apple development for the Mac and iPhone with other local Apple users. All levels of skill and interest are welcome, from experts to the merely curious! This month's speaker is Andrew Money, owner of AwesomeSauce Apps. His talk, titled "I'm in the App Store -- Now what?!", will cover some of the less technical gotchas developers can run into after publishing their iPhone apps, including payment receipt, feedback tracking, and other issues.

Thanks,
Jeremy

Going to Austin Code Camp 5/30

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:01:00 -1300

Going to Austin Code Camp 09

U coming?

NWA CocoaHeads Meeting 5/14

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:04:00 -1300

NWA CocoaHeads
Apple Mac & iPhone Development Interest Group

Thursday, May 14, 6-8pm
Sales Tracking and Analytics for iPhone Apps
(Andrew Money, AwesomeSauce Apps)
Corporate HQ Discovery Center

nwacocoa@gmail.com
http://cocoaheads.org/us/FayettevilleArkansas/index.html

Google Maps of location

The next meeting of the Northwest Arkansas CocoaHeads will be Thursday, May 14, from 6pm to 8pm at Discover Center. Andrew Money, founder of AwesomeSauce Apps, will present on sales tracking and analytics for iPhone apps. The goal of the Northwest Arkansas CocoaHeads group is to foster a local community of Apple developers in the Northwest Arkansas, Eastern Oklahoma, and Southwest Missouri.

More information is available at: NWA CocoaHeads

NWA Code Camp 2009

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:47:00 -1300

Awesome event great showing by our locals! I truly enjoyed this event and I hope you did as well.

#NwaCodeCamp was the best local event I have been to in a long time. I saw a lot of Very good sessions. I think Jason Vogel & @JaySmith ran an amazing event.

I had the opportunity to present on Silverlight DeepZoom. I wanted to post my PPT for anyone who attended and wanted the links. If you have any questions related to the event or to my presentation post away, I’ll either answer them or get you an answer. I'm going to work on a blog post to go into some detail on using the Jellyfish Framework.

Silverlight DeepZoom PowerPoint Link: SilverlightDeepZoom.zip (382.51 kb)

**Also someone asked me what I was using to ZOOM on m desktop. Here is a link to that as well, it’s not in my PowerPoint.

Thanks
Jeremy

NWA Code Camp 09

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:21:00 -1300

Join me at NWA Code Camp 2009 I have a session on “Silverlight DeepZoom applications with Jellyfish” (an open source library for DeepZoom). I will be presenting after lunch check out all the topics at the Agenda page. Still not sure if you want to make it? My session was inspired by @KENAZUMA talk at MIX this year. Cllick here to watch it. (DONT WORRY) my session will be different and just as informative.

Check out these random DeepZoom sites to get a better feel for the technology:

thanks,
Jeremy

MIX09 - Pics

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:43:00 -1300

Mix – Me and the GU

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:36:00 -1300

For starters, I’m a really big fan of the “GU”!! So even though I felt like a complete school girl... After what must have been hours of standing there I finally 'made the move'. I approached the Gu he was very personable and took time to talk to me about what I did and for the record was suprisingly engaged. I not only got to talk to him I got my picture taken... Do I have to give up my man card for that ?

HAAAAA.

I just thought I would share that experience.

Mix – New in expressions blend

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (jeremysharp) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:15:13 -1300

Christian Schormann & Douglas Olson do an excellent talk in “ The Future of Microsoft Expression Blend” MIX09-CO4F

Nice Sketchflow demo

SketchFlow was created to address issues...

Top-down & bottom-up design lets you experiment with ideas
Sketchets you design at any time
Facilitate communication fo ideas
Easy to gather evaluate and use stakeholder feedback

DEMOING MORE SKETCH FLOW:

Walking through creating a online Snowboard store. The time line page flow box (at bottom) is AMAZING. add new pages connect them to show flow.

**This is a good session to check out. The guy is talking WAY to fast just download it! :)

Mix – What’s New in Silverlight 3

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:11:00 -1300

Joe Stegman – Group Program Manager

Glboal notes:

Agenda talking about the Core Runtime.
Business libraries, Tooling and other core concepts being presented in other sessions.
Improved XAP compression built into the tools. 10 to 30% reduction in XAP size. Blend Bits available today.

Meeting notes

GPU Acceleration – quick tour, several other talks on media
Perspective 3D – put 2D objects in 3D space.
Animation Easing – Add it into a “perspective plane” <PlaneProjecton x:name=”P3” rotationY=”-30”> around media element </>
- UI to UI binding !!
- EasingFunction – smoothness of animations
- exported to excel looks easier.
Effects and Pixel Shaders
- Effects
  - impact visual behavior
  - sl3 supports drop shadow and blur
- SL3 supports cusom effects
  - cusom effects are implemented as shaders
  - shaders typically authored using HLSL
    - compiled into byte code using a DX SDK utility
    - SL3 consumes the byte codes
  - shaders allow developers to modify each pixel on a UI element before the pixel is rendered
  - shader = a per-pixel function or operation
Pixel APIs
- Dynamic bitmap generation
  - read/write pixels in a bitmap
- render a visual tree (elements) to a bitmap
Scenarios
- Dynamic image generations for ex RT graphs
- Image editing and effects
- clone visual
Raw Audio
- similar to pixel API’s but for audio / video
- Scenarios
  - dynamic sound generation
  - custom audio/video decoders

DEMO

Played video created multiple snapshots of video on a mouse click
Demoed DropShadow effect
Shaders and effects

LOCAL MESSAGING

Cross plug in SL communication
- Multiple plugin on same page, different browser tabs, different browsers
Implementation
- shared memory imp
- exposed like named pipes
- string based message
Scenarios
- mixed HTML and SL architecture

DEMO

Bouncing balls across multiple browsers
Chess game (browsers playing each other) :)

UI framework Improvements

Merged resource dictionaries
basedOn Styles
Styles can be “cleared”
Muliti0select ListBox
Listening to “handled” routed events
new VSM “invalid” states
- Support on TextBox, CheckBox, ComboBox, ListBOX, RadioButton
More details: (Karen Corby) Friday presentation

Other Improvements

SystemColors
Savefile dialog
Text Improvements
- ClearType
- caretBrush
- flag to optimize for animating text
- Glyphs Support for system font
Image Refinements

NEW SDK

DockPanel
expander
label
treeview
viewbox
wrappanel
child…
….
…..

Other BIG additions

In the business talk
- Navigation framework
- data control
- SEO
- n-tier
- … .

OutOFBrowser

SL runs out of the browser
built into the core Silverlight runtime
enabled per application
- manifest update
user gesture to take OOB
- right click
- custom button in the app
new networking API’s
- connected / Disconnected
Offline API’s
- launch state, update API’s

Mix – Silverlight applications in the business application

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:01:00 -1300

Brad Abrams – Silverlight 3 goodness.

Must haves

Professional Feel
Rich data query
- using NorthWind DB
validating data updates
Authentication
Different views

Demo

took the default SL3 app and pulled data from northwinds db, Datagrid , paging / sorting and the like.

Mix Agenda

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:03:00 -1300

Here is my narrowed down list of sessions I would like to attend. There is a problem several of these double up. I hope to narrow it further to 2 sessions per hour then for the most part catch half and watch the missing half on the video once its live. All sessions will be posted live less than 24 hours. So if you see something you like and I didn't take good notes check out visitmix.com !! Also doing a new thing this year hitting the workshops I'm pumped about that.

What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 MIX09-T14F
High-Speed RIA Development with the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit MIX09-T15F
Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics MIX09-T17F
Creating Media Content for Microsoft Silverlight Using Microsoft Expression Encoder MIX09-T19F
The Next Generation of Microsoft Virtual Earth MIX09-T34F
Microsoft Silverlight Session Placeholder MIX09-T45F
Building Accessible RIAs in Microsoft Silverlight MIX09-T65M
When Errors Happen: Debugging Microsoft Silverlight MIX09-T68M
Microsoft Silverlight Is Ready for Business MIX09-T69M
Creating Media Content for Microsoft Silverlight Using Microsoft Expression Encoder MIX09-T19F
Microsoft Silverlight Media End-to-End MIX09-T43F
Delivering Media with Microsoft Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) Media Services and Microsoft Silverlight MIX09-
The Best Video and Photography on the Web in Microsoft Silverlight MIX09-T60F
Optimizing Performance for Microsoft Expression Encoder MIX09-T70M
Delivering Ads to a Silverlight Media Player Application MIX09-T18F
Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls MIX09-T16F
Adding Microsoft Silverlight to Your Company's Skill Set MIX09-T29F
Building a Rich Social Network Application MIX09-T35F
Building Amazing Business Centric Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3 MIX09-T40F
Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET MIX09-T41F
Consuming Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 3 MIX09-T42F
Microsoft Silverlight Media End-to-End MIX09-T43F
The Best Video and Photography on the Web in Microsoft Silverlight MIX09-T60F
Building Microsoft Silverlight Applications with Eclipse MIX09-T66M

Thanks,
Jeremy

Going to Mix09

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (jeremysharp) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:51:55 -1300

Will I see YOU there ?

Twitter: @JeremySharp

Wonderstate Media, LLC are at it again…

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (jeremysharp) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:48:41 -1300

My friends at Wonderstate Media, LLC have done it again. For over a year I have been addicted to their first creation FayettevilleFlyer.com. This is everything I needed to know about NWA and the surrounding areas. When reading there is no doubt that they take their job very seriously and work hard to give you very detailed information on the happenings of this growing area. The site has all the bells and whistles you would come to expect from a First Rate news agency. Complete with RSS feeds, comments and the like. If you don't believe me go check out their site and let me know your thoughts.

So you might ask “ok, now what?”

Wonderstate Media today is announcing the long overdue arrival of a thorough listing of the businesses in Washington County. www.Local540.com - This online directory from day one appears to have everything you need in terms of navigating and locating businesses in Northwest Arkansas. Obviously a lot of work went into collecting data for what can only be described as an online phonebook++. Check out Local540.com for your self and let me know if you find your business.

Wonderstate Media says:

Local540 serves up relevant, community-specific content unlike any other online local directory in our area – bringing consumers and businesses together. Every business gets their own website with a standard bundle of features. Paid options provide businesses with a fully integrated marketing platform that is organized and useful to consumers.

Each business comes standard with location, pictures, and times of operation, method of payments, Telephone numbers and even links to that local businesses website.

GREAT WORK GUYS, I look forward to using this.

Starting the journey to the clouds, Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:41:00 -1300

It’s no secret that PDC will be where Microsoft announces their Microsoft cloud computing platform. But if you are like me you have heard that term abused throughout the industry. News on Microsoft's cloud computing platform as a back end for Silverlight applications will be some of the things I hope to key on throughout PDC. I wont be making the trip myself but have plenty of friends that are going.

Here is an interesting note I found on Bill Reiss blog that breaks down the PDC agenda for us: (http://www.bluerosegames.com/SilverlightBrassTacks/post/PDC-should-be-renamed-CDC-for-Cloud-Developers-Conference.aspx)

There are a couple of more Silverlight sessions, now with a total of 13, but what really struck me is that the category with the most sessions is Cloud Services, with 33. Windows 7 has 22, which is still a lot, but 33 is just incredible.

Microsoft’s platform has a collection of unannounced services that I’m sure will all come to light during the PDC keynote. Shortly thereafter I have no doubt someone will have these all listed out very nicely(more to come)!!

Here are some links of some of the services if your looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) all fit together, David Chappell’s White paper on “A short introduction to cloud platforms: An Enterprise-Oriented View.”. Is worth a look he does not mention Zurich & SSDS by name but there are details to help fill in the holes.

For those of you NOT wanting to dig into the 13 pages Mary-Jo Foley from ZDNET.com provides the cliff notes to Chappell’s white paper. Another nice link and picture provided from Mike Kavis – “The future is in the clouds”.

Silverlight 2.0 is out as of Today!!

jeremy.nospam@nospam.sharpresults.com (JeremySharp) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:08:00 -1300

I woke up early this morning to start my exploration into this release and have already found people that could articulate this event much better than me…. So I have included links for the blogs I found most informative. I hope to have more information out this week walking through some of the guts of Silverlight 2. Hope you enjoy.

Check out a couple of these blogs to get a well rounded vibe on what's going on!

If you would like the cliff notes for environment setup here it is:

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 required
Blend 2.5 has officially gone away and is to be replaced by Blend 2.0 SP1
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/default.aspx

Honorable mention of things I didn't expect was a set of controls from Shawn Burk’s team (going to try to blog a follow up walking through these):

Shawn says: “We are currently working on a set of controls for a preview release at PDC 2008 in late October.”

DockPanel
WrapPanel
ViewBox
Label
HeaderedContentControl
Expander
TreeView
NumericUpDown
AutoComplete
Accordion

**All of these controls will use the new Visual State Manager templating model and be fully customizable in XAML by hand or through Expression Blend. They will also ship with full, buildable source, unit tests, and an updated unit testing harness nicely wrapped up with a tasty OSI-Approved MS-PL license.

Happy researching, I know I will!!

-Jeremy

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