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30 October 2007
RIA: 10 Questions on Icon Design - I ask our Microsoft Design folks to respond.

I have an Icon fetish that is disturbingly wrong. In that I collect them, horde them and will happily spend Microsoft's good hard earned money on as many of them as I can find - if allowed. Yet, what makes Icon's so special? in that why do they enhance Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, RIA, Microsoft, XAML, Expression Design, Icons, RIA Producer, RIA Handbook, Rich Internet Application, Rich Interactive Application

 

08 August 2007
Finding that sweet spot between RIA and Desktop.

I've posted a bit on trust, around prescribing the rationale around why RIA (Rich Interactive Application) is an effective solution - yet - I've not decomposed the approach on when to use RIA vs Desktop. It's a pretty easy decision really, you first have Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, RIA, RIA Handbook

 

05 August 2007
Clawing our way beyond the browser.

RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) have this approach that's quite unique, in that they kind of want to sit with fingers in both barrels. On one hand, they want to stay within the browser whilst on other hand they want to breach the browser and live Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET 3.0, RIA, Microsoft, XAML

 

04 August 2007
RIA and Search Engines.

The latest annoyance with RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) these days (not wide-spread thankfully) is how they aren't really suitable for search engine's such as Google. There's a reason for this and it's simply put, they aren't web pages. They aren't Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, AJAX, Windows Vista, RIA, XAML, UXE

 

31 May 2007
I predicted Microsoft Surface in September 2005

It was 29th September 2005 , I posted on my old blog " AJAX is a one trick poney " (yes, it should be pony). Inside my rant you'll find the following snippet "..Content is king, and always will be but how does one access the content, thats the key deciding Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Mobile, WPF, AJAX, .NET 3.0, RIA, Microsoft, XAML, XBOX 360, Microsoft Surface