If you’ve wandered through the design world for any length of time, you’ve run into the grid system. It’s a system of design layout in which things are aligned on a grid to give even spacing and an sense of structure to the layout. I like the grid system and use it with some frequency…
This last week I was honored to represent Microsoft in Hanoi, Vietnam for the WOWZAPP Worldwide Hackathon. The Hanoi event I attended was packed full, every seat filled with ambitious young developers working to create their new apps for Windows 8. Below you’ll find the winners of the WOWZAPP Hackathon in Hanoi. I’m working on…
So you’ve got a listview and you want the columns (not the rows) to look a certain way. (If you are in any way confused, head over here.) In this post, we’re going to build a template for a column and style that template so the data in that column is all styled the same…
UPDATE: I’ve made the source code available for download here. Yeah, yeah… I know it’s long past the time when anyone want to revisit the wonders of the 2008 presidential campaign, but the stars aligned for me to build this thing. Star #1: I’m been meaning to learn JSON forever because everyone is talking about…
There are readable text and code summaries for the Windows 10 Preview Jumpstart series. If you want to know more about any particular topic, make sure you watch the videos over at Microsoft Virtual Academy. You can also get the slides there. Summaries for: Sessions 1-3 Sessions 4-6 Sessions 7-9 Sessions 13-14 10 – App-to-App Communication – 33…
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):…
My previous post is the first one that I’ve used Windows Live Writer to create. I changed from the default WordPress blog post composer because Live Writer gives me the following features: I don’t have to upload my images file-by-file… I just use OneNote to screen grab and then copy and paste from OneNote into…
I’ll never not find this funny… I usually use this cartoon with a caption about how we as product developers look at our users. I generally try to keep my musing about politics and my professional life as separate as possible. But I’ve been thinking over an intersection between my passion for user research and product…
Mike Swanson has updated his Adobe Illustrator-to- XAML plug-in. It now supports WPF and Silverlight conversions in addition to making the files smaller by getting rid of unneccessary precision. I tagged it with delicious, but this is important enough to earn its own post.
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…