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…
Thanks to Joe McBride and Jason Alderman, who discovered this technique in some of Microsoft’s theme packs. I’m trying something a little new… I’m going to post all future Silverlight tutorials on CodeRun, an online IDE. Basically, just follow the link below and click “Run” and you’ll see this in action. You can change the…
In a development certain to inspire renewed confidence in the company that has shown us technological marvel after marvel, Apple has filed a patent elucidating the innovative use of fingertips to drive interaction between people and electronic devices. “It’s something we feel that Apple is uniquely positioned to bring to the table, given our overwhelming…
So you want grid lines in your listview, huh? Something that looks a little like this? OK, we can do this the easy way and the hard way.
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…
The Riveter March 15, 1940 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 Donald answers a wanted ad for a riveter and is thrust into the job on the top floor of a sky scraper. This short is the spiritual successor of Building a Building, in which Pete yells at Mickey for many of the…
I’ve signed up for MIX 09, so I’ll be headed to Las Vegas this March. If you’re thinking about it, they’re having a pretty solid promotional where you can register for 40% off the standard cost with the RSVP code “MIXspecial1”. Go do it Interesting stuff happening at MIX this year… Johnny Lee, whose idea…
This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant to go along with my much more comprehensive post on StringFormat binding for Windows Phone. First, in the Object and Timeline select the TextBlock (or CheckBox or Button or whatever) you want to bind to: Then in the Properties tab…
OK, Cory Doctorow, let’s see if this works.
I’ve recently written a chapter on storytelling and information visualization for O’Reilly media to publish in the book Beautiful Visualization.
And you can read it for free.
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. Sessions 1-3 Sessions 4-6 Sessions 7-9 Session 10-12 13 – Action Center – 22 minutes Summary: The notification system that was in place for Windows 8.1…