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…
Fork the Alexa Audio Tutorial in C# I originally started working with Alexa Skills because I wanted to write an skill to listen to podcasts. That’s how this whole mess started for me. Little did I know exactly how hard this would be. You can fairly quickly write a simple Skill to do some pretty…
The very latest and greatest version of the MIX Outsider application is up and ready for download. Mostly text-building fixes and settings updates. Also, check out the MIX Outsider website, built with loving care by Jason Alderman (Twitter: @justsomeguy) If you download the app above, you’ll notice it is in the *.xap format, which is…
I fought with this for a while today, so I thought I would toss it up as a solution. I was trying to create a transition between two screens for a project I’m working on. I created the two ContentControls in my XAML like so: <ContentControl x:Name=”OldContent”> <!– My Old Content –> </ContentControl> <ContentControl…
For everyone who wants to take a look, here are the slides for my MIX10 information visualization talk. MIX10 “Effective Information Visualization in Silverlight I’ll post the code from the presentation when I catch my breath.
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.
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…
Summary: In this post, I walk through the basics of using Silverlight to query the New York Times Article API and display the results of the query. You can see the final result below. You can also download source code for this project here. JSON/Silverlight/New York Times project files Huge thanks to Josh Holmes, whose…
The search for icons has driven many a developer to the brink of insanity. OK, that may be over-stating the case, but it is always good to have more options when it comes to icons. Especially in Windows Phone and Windows 8, where the icon style is color-less, it is important to find exactly the…