IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski

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Awhile back, for MIX, Tim Aidlin and I built Flitterbook. We liked it so much that we now have version 2, renamed Flotzam , ready for your consumption. Lots of improvements, including a new UI, RSS support, Facebook notifications and complete configuration...

One area that is currently top of mind for me is designer and developer collaboration with WPF and Expression Blend, in particular around animation. I'd like to start documenting some techniques and outlining things that can and can't be done. Before...

It was two weeks ago that Microsoft released the Microsoft Facebook Toolkit. The response has been great and an wiki popped up that people in the community were using to make enhancements to the toolkit and make fixes. As a result, Clarity Consulting...

I've been meaning to document how I wrapped the Twitter API ... in 4.5 seconds. There is a very powerful feature in .NET is a tool in the sdk called xsd.exe . Darren David actually has a fabulous post on exactly the power of this tool: never touch a DOM...

A new version of the WPF Performance Profiling tools has been posted, x86 and x64 , as an .msi. These tools were previously only available in the beta .NET Framework 3.5 SDK, but that is a rather hefty dowload at over 1 gig. Now, you can get at these...

This post has nothing to do with WPF, Expression, Silverlight, Vista or pixels. Rather, it has to do with web service discovery and with my former role at Microsoft in working with UDDI . I had a bunch of resources up on GotDotNet which I have had to...

I'm here at the Facebook Developer's event down here in San Francisco. Dan'l Lewin from Microsoft was on stage as a parter: Lots of good stuff announced as far as Facebook/Microsoft partnership: Microsoft just released a great wrapper to the Facebook...

I just posted three new hands-on labs for Expression Blend that were created for MIX but haven't been posted for the world yet. There's lots of little nuggets in there worth checking out, things like creating a user controls, databinding, triggers, styling...

I'm very interested in the phenomenon of Twitter. In this piece, I want to write about a particular aspect of Twitter and the one that I'm most familiar with, the usage of Twitter at conferences. In fact, I was first turned on to Twitter at South by Southwest...

Check out Lutz Roeder's Monotone -- very, very cool. Pay close attention to how tightly synched the animation is with the visuals. I've been digging into the source code and there are several techniques he uses that are worth calling out. First, it is...

I just posted a high resolution copy of the WPF Momentum video shown during Ray Ozzie's MIX07 keynote for downloading. If you don't want to take the 32mb download hit, you can always watch it streamed via Silverlight .

Kevin Moore very quietly released a new bag o' tricks that has two of the coolest controls for WPF that I've seen in awhile: transition and reveal. Transition is gnarly: it provides the infrastructure to create a visual transition between any two visuals...

Technorati tags: silverlight , expression blend Tim recently posted a list of all the Silverlight screencasts that are being hosted up on silverlight.net. I authored five of them , all of which are focused on using Blend, which I fall more in love with...

(Updated 6/21) -- Please go check out http://flotzam.com which is the released incarnation of this software! I just posted the screen saver source to Flitter here . It is now entirely configurable, both for Flickr and Twitter. To install, right...

I'm here at MIX07. Nice to finally be here -- one of the reasons my blog has been rather quiet of late has been the work in the run up to MIX. I've been involved in all kinds of fun stuff involving WPF, Expression Blend and Silverlight, which I'll finally...

I just posted a new lab for learning how to use 3D in WPF. This is a great lab that I would highly recommend if you are learning WPF 3D. It shows how to do dynamic animation of 3D content as well as how to do 2D on 3D using the 3DTools .

A case study about the North Face Kiosk is now posted to the Microsoft Case Studies site. This is a nice write up, showing how the technology solved business problems, and explaining the larger context of how the kiosk plays into The North Face's overall...

Expression Blend Release Candidate 1 is now available for download . The product keeps getting better, able to render more on its design surface, more stable, better documented and tons of great new samples. The samples are quite crisp from a design point...

The diversity of the crowd at SxSW was great. I went to a lot of designer sessions, which I found refreshing and informative. I attended a session about creating a design team that Tjeerd Hoek of Vista was on along with some folks from Google, Intuit...

Here are my notes from Bruce Sterling's talk, uncut. Lots of diamonds in the rough for those with the patience to read through. You can read something similar on VallyWag . Or, just skip the whole old school written word shebang and listen to the podcast...

I'm down here in Austin at SxSW Interactive , a great conference and confluence of people in the Internet industry. My big takeaway from the conference is to be reminded of what a wide open and unknown frontier the Internet still is. That statement sounds...

There is a clever sample up on Flash Math Creativity by Lifaros that fundamentally does 2D morph meshing by chopping up an image into sections and then animating the sections, resulting in the effect of a flag waving. I decided to implement something...

This summer, I posted a five day course for WPF . While this content is all still relevant, using a blog to disseminate this information is, well, so old school. Unless I constantly update the post, it doesn't have all the latest and greatest sites, tutorials...

There is a great 3D cloth demo that has been floating around interally for awhile and shown at conferences, talks, channel 9 interviews, etc. However, we haven't ever posted the source code . . . until now. You can run it from here and download the source...