Sorry for my prolonged absence. My world has been taken over somewhat due to my recent moonlighting as an information visualization guy. Take note that I’m not by any means an “expert”… I’m more of an “enthusiast”, but that was apparently enough to get me on CNN. I’ll post more videos as I create them…
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 finally cleaned out my Google Reader list and picked out the stuff I like. Carsonified » 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers Carsonified » Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers – Part 2 Source code for “WPF Control Development Unleashed” – From Pavan Podila, control development in WPF is pretty powerful… might be…
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…
UPDATED 05/22/09 In the comments, someone mentioned that the project wasn’t working properly for keyed scrolling. I’ve updated the project with: Key scrolling (left, right, up, down, page up, page down) CanKeyboardScroll property on the AnimatedScrollViewer so that keyboard scrolling can be turned off ScrollToSelectedItem property on the AnimatedListBox so that the user can have…
These are my links for May 6th: AutoScroller For Silverlight 2 ScrollViewer – Working on my own scrolling issues… there seem to be alot of them, but the more I dig into the control, the more I understand why. How to set the row height of a Grid in the code – Valuable if you're…
First things first, here are my INotifyPropertyChanged snippets. INotifyPropertyChanged snippet (PropertyChangedEventHandler and RaisePropertyChanged method) INotifyPropertyChanged Property snippet Just download them into your "Visual Studio 2008CodeSnippetsVisual C#My CodeSnippets" folder and they should work. Just type "notify" and intellisense should show you "notifyo" (for NotifyObject) and "notifyp" (for NotifyProperty). Hit tab twice and the code should dump…
UPDATE: The presentation is online: I gave a presentation on data visualization at Ignite Salt Lake last night, and I thought it went pretty well. (I wasn’t hiding my face and sneaking out of the theater afterward.) Here are the slides from the night with my notes. I Once Was Blind: Building an Information Visualization…
I will have no time to write real blog posts (I’m actually writing this during Robby Ingebretsen’s fantastic session: “Design Fundamentals for Developers”), but I will be updating on Twitter like a maniac. You can see my twitter feed here. I’ll try to tweet something from every session I attend.