If you've got nothing nice to say... One of the problems with having joined Microsoft is that it's harder to criticise. Anyone who has attended my courses (coming up at OzChi , by the way) knows how I rely on sympathetic critique to build interaction...

The guys at the ZamDes User Group over in Kiwiland have scraped together various info about WPF, Silverlight, XAML and Expression into a good little PowerPoint overview. Follow this link to ZamDes User Group (zamdes.com) and look out for the PowerPoint...

A new preview of Expression Blend 2 - the September preview - is out now and it's free. It has lots of new features for easier creation of animations, including node animation - something I was asked about a lot at TechEd in Malaysia. Get it here...

I ran into Ron Jacobs at TechEd and he told me the video has been posted for my interview with him last year for ARCast. (I posted up a link to the audio back in April - this is the same, just with pictures of me squinting into the sun). I don't think...

I've no intention of announcing every Silverlight site that appears, but the All Blacks sidebar gadget is pretty cool. The funny part is how they didn't allow enough space for a three-digit score against Portugal. Maybe the designer wasn't a Kiwi? Go...

A bunch of us are getting together for lunch in Melbourne this Friday. Details here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/265404/ . Please rsvp on Upcoming if you're coming so I can book. (UXIDIA stands for User eXperience, Interaction Design, Information...

Thanks to everyone who came along to my "Wireframing and Prototyping in Expression Blend" at Teched in Malaysia. Here's a link to the WPF Wireframing Starter project and the PowerPoint file. Good luck with your wireframing in Blend - feel free to send...

Readify are running a 3-day Silverlight workshop in October. Looking at the outline, this course is much more developer-focused than designer-focused, but may be of interest to some.

Kordesy has found a great video on how the Entertainment Tonight Emmys site was designed and built in Silverlight.

Kordesy has done a sterling job and all the Remix videos are now up for viewing at Postmix .

I am doing 3 sessions at TechEd Malaysia next week. Be sure to say G'day! Designing with Expression Web Using Expression Web you can create web sites that don't just look great, but are also easier to design, develop and maintain. Come and get in-depth...