Let’s say you don’t really want to play nice with the theming engine in Windows Phone 7. This would be pretty understandable… when you play nice with theming you either need to 1) come up with some nice innovative solution that detects themes and sets brushes and colors dynamically or 2) use only the black,…
Normally, I wouldn’t blog something that seems obvious, but it took me hours to figure this out and I always try to write blog posts for stuff that it took me a long time to figure out. Enormous props to Walt Ritscher (Twitter: @waltritscher) who helped me figure this out. This blog post is for…
Click here if you don’t want to hear me complain about the Silverlight toolkit and you just want to get to the animations. If you are like me, you’re working on Windows Phone 7 applications in your pajamas, subsisting on pork jerky and Coke Zero and dreaming of that one project that will make you…
This is meant to be the one-stop-shop blog post for creating a very simple web service in PHP that pulls from a MySQL database and displaying the data in Silverlight. Emphasis on the “simple”. Here is an example of the finished product (I reserve the right to clean up the data on a regular basis):…
This is meant to be the one-stop-shop blog post for creating a very simple web service in PHP that pulls from a MySQL database and displaying the data in Silverlight. Emphasis on the “simple”. Here is an example of the finished product (I reserve the right to clean up the data on a regular basis):…
This is meant to be the one-stop-shop blog post for creating a very simple web service in PHP that pulls from a MySQL database and displaying the data in Silverlight. Emphasis on the “simple”. This tutorial is geared toward someone who has never done databases or web services. Here is an example of the finished…
If you’re interested in government transparency, there is not better organization to watch than the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit organization that is leading the charge to more government transparency through the release, organization and visualization of government data and processes. Every once in a while, Sunlight Foundation runs contests to either visualize or interact with…
As promised, I’m posting my code for the demos from my MIX10 “Creating Effective Information Visualization in Silverlight” talk. Unemployment Data Demo Code Bing Maps Twitter Demo Code In case you want to take a look at the unemployment visualization, I’ve added it below. I’m looking for a place to do ASP.Net hosting because my…
I’ve been a busy blogger over at Veracity Blogs the last couple weeks. Here’s a list of my new posts: Florida Crime Rate Visualization – My attempts to use Silverlight for information visualizations are going pretty well. In this post, I visualize the Florida crime rate by county over almost 20 years. There are project…
I’ve started a series of posts on Silverlight and other topics over at the Veracity Solutions Blog. Veracity Solutions is the software consulting firm where I work and we’ve decided that it would be a good idea to do some sponsored posting there. Blog posts up so far are: Styling a ComboBox in Silverlight 3…