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IRhetoric Has Moved to http://rhizohm.net/irhetoric

I'm no longer posting at this URL and all future posts will be made at http://rhizohm.net/irhetoric . Please update your RSS. Thanks! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:55 PM by karstenj | 7 Comments

Announcing Flotzam: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Blog Mash Up

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:44 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments
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COLLABORATING ON CREATING ANIMATIONS IN WPF AND BLEND: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:16 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments

Microsoft Facebook Toolkit Is Open Sourced and Moves to Codeplex

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 6:34 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments
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CREATING A .NET TWITTER API in 4.5 SECONDS

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 2:01 PM by karstenj | 2 Comments

UPDATED WPF PERFORMANCE PROFILING TOOLS POSTED

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:51 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments

UDDI RESOURCES MIGRATED

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:36 PM by karstenj | 5 Comments

FLITTERBOOK: INTEGRATING WITH THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:50 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments
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THREE NEW EXPRESSION BLEND HANDS-ON LABS

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:26 AM by karstenj | 6 Comments
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TWITTERPATED: ON TWITTER AND CONFERENCES

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:33 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments
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DIGGING INTO LUTZ ROEDER'S MONOTONE

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:17 PM by karstenj | 2 Comments

WPF Momentum Video Posted

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 . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:00 AM by karstenj | 2 Comments

TRANSITION AND REVEAL: NEW CUSTOM CONTROLS FOR WPF, UPDATED AVALON FEATURE FEST

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 6:35 PM by karstenj | 8 Comments

SILVERLIGHT SCREENCASTS, CHICKENS AND DINOSAURS

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 11:10 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments

FLITTER: SOURCE POSTED

(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 click Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 9:32 PM by karstenj | 38 Comments
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