I've been seriously neglecting my blog, but I just wanted to point out that WPF 4 Unleashed is now available! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672331195?ie=UTF8&tag=adamnathannet-20 Maybe someday soon I'll explain the differences between the two...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I was fighting off a cold and perhaps not always thinking straight, but here I am on episode #314 of .NET Rocks !

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last week a coworker brought this article by Jeff Atwood to my attention: Coding Horror: How Not To Write a Technical Book Of course, I'm flattered by what Jeff (and commenters) said, and I'm happy that he gave my book a chance (especially since he didn...

Check it out . From the man who thinks I use too many exclamation points ! (It's true. I like exclamation points and parentheses!)

I suppose I should be flattered. It seems that someone swiped my copy of WPF Unleashed out of my office last week! (Nothing else appears to be missing.) It does have a few identifying marks on it, so the perpetrator better be careful! At any rate, thanks...

I got my hands on two copies while on vacation and gave them to family members, but now that I'm back home I need to wait for the rest of my copies to arrive. I snooped around the blogosphere and found two references to it: Adam Nathan's new WPF book...

I got an email the other day that I thought I'd share (with permission from the author and with names removed). This is in reference to my post last year: Hey - Don't make fun of cards.dll! I wrote it! Back in the mid 80s (I think - it's been a while...

This weekend I entered the final phase of tweaking and reviewing, so WPF Unleashed is on the verge of being printed! The book is now scheduled to be available right before the new year (December 27, according to Amazon). Although this isn't quite in time...

John said I need to update my blog . Since he's currently my manager, I guess I should listen to him. Things are a *bit* busy with my day job , my night job , and my late night job , so I think I'll consider this update complete. Mission accomplished...

I'm happy to report that I've recently joined a new team at Microsoft: John Montgomery 's "Non-Professional Tools" team. We're still in startup mode... it's just the two of us right now, but more folks are joining soon and we're looking to hire many more...

It's official... my WPF book now has a title, a temporary cover, and is listed on Amazon: The details aren't published yet, but this book will have a feature that I think is quite cool... and I've never seen it done in any other book. So stay tuned! I...