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Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available for Pre-Order
I told someone awhile back, "Don’t worry, there will be a Silverlight 2 Unleashed.  The only real question is whether I'll be the one writing it." Until a few weeks ago, I just couldn’t make up my mind.  (I know, it was a bit late Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 12:00 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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Popfly Games: Now With High Score Tracking!
Yesterday afternoon we updated Popfly with arguably the most fun feature yet for both viewers and game authors.  Popfly games automatically track scores, wins, and losses for the people who play the games.  If you browse to http://www.popfly.com/Profile/Achievements.aspx Read More...
Posted 18 July 08 01:03 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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New Game Creator features are now live!
A few hours ago we released our 20th major update to Popfly, which includes our first update to the game creator since it was released just over a month ago. There are tons of new features for you game creators out there , so I want to highlight them Read More...
Posted 12 June 08 09:21 by Adam Nathan | 7 Comments   
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Popfly Game Creator Sample: Type Type Revolution
I'm here at Maker Faire, getting ready to demo the Popfly Game Creator, and here's a new game I just created: You can click "tweak" to see how I created it, make changes, and save it as your own. But here's a quick summary of what I did: I made the A, Read More...
Posted 03 May 08 07:10 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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Popfly Game Creator! (What I've been doing the last 6 months)
At the end of last year, my team was nice enough to let me start working on a Silverlight-based casual game creator for Popfly, one that makes it easy to create a variety of games with no coding experience required. And here it is ! For the past 2-3 months Read More...
Posted 02 May 08 11:06 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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.NET Rocks!
I was fighting off a cold and perhaps not always thinking straight, but here I am on episode #314 of .NET Rocks ! Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 07:25 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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Petzold strikes again!
(Or, rather, struck again last summer.) I just found Jeff's post about receiving a book from Petzold complete with witty comments . I was also a lucky recipient of an autographed book, so I thought I'd share what Petzold had to say to me: Funny stuff! Read More...
Posted 29 December 07 09:11 by Adam Nathan | 6 Comments   
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Today's ego boosts
PC World has just named Popfly one of the " 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year " WPF Unleashed has just been nominated for a 2007 Jolt Product Excellence Award , which recognizes "the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products" Obviously Read More...
Posted 28 December 07 06:46 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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Popfly public beta!
As Steve Ballmer announced this morning, Popfly (my day job) is now open to the public! All you need is a Windows Live ID. This morning I decided to use Popfly to show a noticeable trend in my books: Tip: Click MashOut -> Tweak this from the little Read More...
Posted 18 October 07 11:05 by Adam Nathan | 6 Comments   
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View and Edit Live Silverlight Examples
Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is days away from shipping. To celebrate, you can (1) pre-order your copy now and (2) check out examples from the book at http://www.adamnathan.net/silverlight/code . You can not only view the HTML/XAML/JavaScript source and Read More...
Posted 09 October 07 07:10 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is now available (sort of)
I'm going through the very last revisions, but in parallel the book has now appeared on Safari as a "Rough Cut." What is a Rough Cut? The almost-final chapters in "raw" unformatted HTML. The pictures in the book should still show up, although they might Read More...
Posted 07 September 07 11:27 by Adam Nathan | 7 Comments   
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Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed!
It's now official and on Amazon ! As indicated by the (temporary) cover, it will be in full color, just like WPF Unleashed! As always, take the release date with a grain of salt because I haven't even written the whole book yet, but rest assured that Read More...
Posted 30 July 07 07:15 by Adam Nathan | 10 Comments   
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WPF Unleashed, with Yaks!
I got the following email this morning that astounded me. I thought I'd share (with the author's permission): Just dropping a line telling you I like your WPF Unleashed book a lot, and brought it to my recent trip to Tibet. I also took a picture of your Read More...
Posted 27 June 07 07:53 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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A guessing game created with Popfly
The credit for this idea goes to Tim Rice, a superstar developer I have the pleasure of working with every day. The game is simple: Try to guess which of the listed locations is pictured by selecting the choice in the dropdown. This was created by grabbing Read More...
Posted 18 May 07 08:47 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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Yes, I'm on the Microsoft Popfly Team!
It's been an exciting year! As John sums up , I joined him almost a year ago (when he was a team of one) and had a blast creating and constantly evolving a prototype of what is now Microsoft Popfly . During 2006, we demoed it again and again to one executive Read More...
Posted 18 May 07 09:03 by Adam Nathan | 7 Comments   
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