April 2009 - Posts
As we are wrapping up all our EnergizeIT events this week, I thought to record my demo on Windows 7 Desktop for those of you who couldn’t make the event and would like to take a look. In the 20 mins demo below, I showed the things I like about Win7 from
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Hard to keep up with what’s new in Silverlight and Expression? Check out the Silverlight blog with it’s new design! I like the graphics design on the blog because it gives me a playful feeling. After all, learning new technology should be playful
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In the last Silverlight User Group meeting, someone asked me about Expression and Silverlight resources for designers. Here’s a list of resources that my friend Arturo Toledo at Expression marketing team provided. expression.microsoft.com – Expression
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I was looking for a good UX quote yesterday and discovered the “inspireUX” blog which is dedicated for UX Design quotes. The latest quote is from Bill Buxton at CHI. It's a good resource for getting words of wisdom and inspiration regarding design. The
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As I was doing my daily reading this morning, I came across three presentations related to mobile design. BBC news today also had a article on Mobile Web experience. It seems everyone is excited about the future of mobile devices and what they can do
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There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's life through interactive, visual, informational, and other aspects of User Experience Design. I invited them to introduce who they are and share their work
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Webby Award is like the Oscar Awards for internet creations. It is the largest, most prestigious international Awards Program for the Web. Yesterday, the People’s Voice Awards aspect of this year’s Webby Awards went live at www.webbyawards.com . Approximately
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Yesterday we sent out our newly designed MSDN Developer Newsletter. Many of you have already sent your feedback on the new design. Thank you! As you probably noticed, the newsletter is in Beta format now, so we’ll review all your feedback and continue
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Yesterday we successfully conducted the Women in IT Panel Discussion webcast, which is a new addition to the Ignite Your Career webcast series this year. Thanks for everyone’s participation in the webcast! It was great conversation, and all the panelists
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We had several Toronto Silverlight User Group members attended MIX09 last month in Vegas. In the next meeting, they are going to share with us what they heard, learnt, and experienced. Check out the agenda below. It’s at 222 Bay St. 12th floor, and don’t
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Silverlight , Microsoft’s plug-in for delivering cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and experiences has been out for a while now. The first, JavaScript-only version was released at Microsoft’s MIX07 conference in May of 2007.
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During EnergizeIT Student Connection events, I’ve been talking about various ways students can demonstrate their technical and career skills. Joining technology competition is a great way to prove your skills and raise the visibility of your work. Imagine
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We are in Calgary this week for EnergizeIT. The post below was published by my colleague Rodney Buike last night on stage when showing the rich blogging features of Window Live Writer – killing two birds with one stone. :) Today John Bristowe, Qixing
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