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		<title>A RIA’s background is vital to achieving that perfect UX</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the hardest things to get right when building out a RIA is designing the background. You can make or break the users experience by designing a bad background.. In my opinion this is a beautiful example of a well executed background.

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		<title>The future of Deepzoom – my take!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 01:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The &#8220;delicate genius&#8221; did a short video of my deepzoom samples, I created these samples with the view to push deepzoom into the mainstream. I wanted to show people that there was more to deepzoom then a zooming picture!
 
(ignore the fact that I need a haircut)..
 

 
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		<title>Rant – Mesh is going to be HUGE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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The last time I was excited about a new technology was about a year and a half ago with Silverlight, it was so new and fresh and offered such promise. I can now say, personally speaking, that the same things can be said about Mesh. It will ultimately redefine how we exchange, use and sync [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=advertboy.wordpress.com&blog=87214&post=883&subd=advertboy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My "Digg Mashup" that taught me so much about Silverlight 2.0 beta – part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The mashup began by me wanting to write a feed reader type of application end-to-end with Silverlight. Basically I wanted to really see if Silverlight could handle a real RIA scenario.
I wanted to utilize a lot of features in Silverlight that I knew would be required for any type of business RIA. I also wanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=advertboy.wordpress.com&blog=87214&post=868&subd=advertboy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live Messenger  – Login Screen UI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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2 days ago I set myself 1 simple task, to build the UI for the Login screen of windows Live messenger!
1 day later I was done!
Equipped with the knowledge gained from my control skinning adventures I set out on creating the UI as best I could pixel for pixel. The result speaks for itself. 
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		<title>How to make a spiral xaml asset with Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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This is going to be a simple post BUT I thought I&#8217;d share it because I have been racking my brain for so long trying to work out how to do something like this in pure xAML. This shows why design is just as important to the UX toolset as blend is. There are just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=advertboy.wordpress.com&blog=87214&post=821&subd=advertboy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 – Windows Media Player redone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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A couple of months ago I recreated the Windows Media Player interface using Blend and Silverlight 1.1 alpha refresh, I wired up the UI so that it behaved similar to the actual application. It had a lot of code in the code behind that managed the resizing, it also made extensive use of the canvas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=advertboy.wordpress.com&blog=87214&post=797&subd=advertboy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silverlight Control Contracts Diagram – For Skinning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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After skinning my nth control I got fed up with continually referring to the MS source code via reflector and made up my own diagram with all the control contracts in them. Print it out and stick it up on your work wall, hopefully you guys find it useful. Shoot me a comment of any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=advertboy.wordpress.com&blog=87214&post=785&subd=advertboy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skinning a Button – 4 different ways and counting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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First up let me apologize for the long gaps between my posts, the honest truth is it&#8217;s taking longer than I thought to master the new features in Silverlight 2.0 beta. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s hard or anything, well actually some things are, it&#8217;s more that there&#8217;s so much to learn! Also I&#8217;m taking my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=advertboy.wordpress.com&blog=87214&post=781&subd=advertboy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silverlight Control Hierarchy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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In the process of mastering the Silverlight 2.0 controls I&#8217;ve documented graphically the hierarchy of the controls. It&#8217;s a simple diagram that shows relationships. I&#8217;m using this to cement my understanding of controls, in particular when creating my own controls, where and what parents to inherit from.
I plan on extending and maintaining this overtime. Please [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=advertboy.wordpress.com&blog=87214&post=744&subd=advertboy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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