Self Control February 11, 1938 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 I usually love the Donald Duck shorts that focus on his personality, since that is Donald’s Achilles’ heel . This short is about Donald trying to rein in his temper with the help of a radio personality. Naturally this means a series…
I’m totally slammed until PDC, but I need to make a mental note for the cool stuff that has come up over the last couple weeks. Josh Smith and Crack.Net – Josh Smith has a release of a free developer tool for .Net applications. Wildly popular around the office. Opacity Masks in Silverlight – Imran…
I had to search around for this information so I thought it would be nice to have it somewhere handy. Here’s the scenario: You want to put ads into your Windows Phone app, but only when it is in trial mode. To start: Download the Microsoft Ads SDK Sign into the Microsoft pubCenter and add…
I’ve been too quiet lately and I need to dump some links so I don’t forget about them: SVLite Effects from Cellbi – Amazing work with Silverlight… play around with their Carousel project in particular. Awesome. Silverlight.FX – From Nikhil Kothari, a very useful FX library with about a dozen kinds of transitions and effects….
I’ve recently been learning to write HTML 5 / Javascript apps for Windows 8 and wanted to take some of that knowledge and transfer it over to Windows Phone 8. As I did so, I learned there are a lot of little “tweaks” that I needed to do to get things working so I thought…
I’m working on building helpers for sharing code between Windows 8 (Windows Store) and Windows Phone. Keep an eye on my github for additional updates. I love the new async-await model in .NET 4.5 (and also in .NET 4.0 if you’re interested). One of the most exciting uses of it (for me) is the ability…
I’m going to do this backwards. I’ll start assuming you already have your vector icon in XAML. Then, how to import your vector icon from Illustrator to XAML. The basics: Your button should look like this: <AppBarButton x:Name=”MyButton” Label=”do stuff” Style=”{StaticResource HeadphoneVectorIcons}”/> And the style should look like this: <Style x:Key=”HeadphoneVectorIcons” TargetType=”ButtonBase”>…
Cool Stuff (uncategorized) Practical Sketchnoting (pdf) – Sketchnoting is the practice of taking notes using a combination of text and images. Jason Alderman gives helpful tips on how to do it. Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8 Toolkit overview (Adam Denning) – The WP8 toolkit isn’t required for building apps in Windows Phone 8, but…
The Bird Store January 16, 1932 available in More Silly Symphonies This is an odd cartoon. The first half is a series of meager music-based gags trying to set up some comedy within the birdshop. The second half is a fun cartoon about a cat trying to eat one of the baby birds and the…
OK, I’ve been waiting to post more on the Wii multipoint for a while, but I’m been waiting to get some kind of mobile infrared light system working. If you’ve watched Johnny Lee’s video, you would get the impression that it’s a 1-2-3 easy a cake thing to do. You would be so wrong. So,…