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02 December 2007
Putting the Rich in RIA : User Account Profiles.

A User Account Today. Typically when you set out to build a RIA, you look at what data you're about to keep about a persons account. In that obviously "Username, Password and Email" are three key pieces of information you need to begin.  Read More...

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Filed under: RIA, Next Generation RIA, RIA Producer, RIA Handbook, Rich Internet Application, Rich Interactive Application

 

21 November 2007
Usage Metrics in your RIA

Inspiration comes from Games. I was at MIX ON CAMPUS (Brisbane) today and I was listening to one of our guest speakers ( Ross Brown ) talk about about some of the projects / research his students are doing with regards to games. One part of this session Read More...

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15 November 2007
POC #1 - Project Harmony (pt1) (Silverlight & Flash)

I've been enjoying the overall experience of what Silverlight has to offer since I started with Microsoft back in January 07. That being said, I've often been an internal "goto" person at times for some Flash advice on behalf of Microsoft customers Read More...

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11 November 2007
Writing Proof of Concept RIA's

When you sit down one night and decide to road-test a theory or an idea you have, then a Proof of Concept (POC) is something you should consider. That being said, when you do decide to write a POC knowing the difference between when you are writing a Read More...

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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

 

19 October 2007
Rich Interactive Applications.

I just finished a blog post by James Ward (by far the best Evangelist Adobe have today) and it was a bloody good post, so much so, it helped me formulate this post (inspiration can come from many things I guess). “I was a young man with uninformed Read More...

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09 September 2007
RIA can change context.

Context is when you look at a situation from a perspective and generally fall into a predefined segment. In that, if I look at say Microsoft Word, my context of use is to read a document - yet others may use word to construct a document. So different Read More...

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