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Ribbit SPAWN Event – Nov 5, 2009 in San Francisco

Ribbit , a Microsoft Partner and division of British Telecom has been working with my team on some exciting technology integrations and is ready to show them off: Please join us in San Francisco November 5, 2009 for an invitation only deep dive into Ribbit’s
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Silverlight Track at Silicon Valley Code Camp Oct 3-4, 2009

So now you’re ready to learn Silverlight – you’ve seen the demos of Deep Zoom , Smooth Streaming , PhotoSynth and Business Applications , and have been awed by the dynamic prototyping capabilities of SketchFlow in Expression Blend .  There is a great
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Silverlight and Web Analytics – the Next Generation

  Ever since I wrote about Silverlight and Web Analytics (and PDF here ) with Silverlight 1, I have been meaning to update the document and guidance for Silverlight 2 and now Silverlight 3.  There are some new features in Silverlight 3 and Expression

Let’s Talk about Web Analytics in San Francisco!

Join me September 9-11, 2009 in San Francisco for the XChange Conference on Web Analytics!  At the conference being held at the St. Regis, I will be leading two discussions ( see descriptions here ): Measuring RIA Applications: What, How, and Why?

Back from Vacation

Yesterday I came back from a vacation (see Bing Map ) to Taos, New Mexico and Durango, Colorado with stops in Albuquerque, Silverton Colorado, and Mesa Verde National Park. I took my new Canon T1i digital SLR with me and loved using it – taking over 1,000

New York Times Silverlight Kit version 1.0.7 Released

We have just released a new version of the New York Times Silverlight Kit , adding better documentation to the help file and new CLR objects for accessing the Campaign Finance APIs.  We’ve also updated the WPF Kit as well.  New Campaign Finance

Best Buy’s Keith Burtis Interviews Me

Keith Burtis from Best Buy just posted an interview that I did with him last week.  We covered everything from evangelism, to Silverlight, to career advice in about 26 minutes.  Best Buy is doing some very exciting things with their Remix APIs

Silverlight Kit Webinars

Today went well.  I delivered three LiveMeeting presentation on Silverlight Kits, Silverlight libraries that facilitate data access to web services, with minimal technical difficulties.  If you missed the live presentations, then you can catch

SFO Silverlight User Group Next Meeting on 6/11/2009

On Thursday, June 11, we will be hosting at the San Francisco Microsoft Office a second meeting of the San Francisco Silverlight User Group .  We are having a Silverlight Showcase where community members can show off their Silverlight applications. 
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Virtual Event: Microsoft Silverlight Kits 6/9/2009

On June 9, 2009, I will be presenting a series of free web meetings about Silverlight Kits that I have been working on: 9:00 AM PDT: The MySpace Silverlight Kit 11:00 AM PDT: The New York Times Silverlight Kit 1:00 PM PDT: Building a Silverlight Kit for

New York Times WPF Kit

If you browse the source code for the New York Times Silverlight Kit , you’ll notice that there are two project that are not for Silverlight but for WPF applications.  It turns out that most of the code that will work in Silverlight will work in

Need Help with my Chroma Key Pixel Shader Algorithm

I’ve just uploaded a simple demo application that shows the Silverlight 3 Chroma Key Effect in action.  If you don’t have the Silverlight 3 beta installed you will need to install it from here (the install link in the application will not work). 

Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle

I just used Sandcastle and the HTML Help Workshop to build the documentation for the New York Times Silverlight Kit .  It took a little hacking to get it working but it turned out some pretty cool docs.  You can download the .CHM file here .

New York Times Silverlight Kit Now Open Source

We are excited to announce that the New York Times Silverlight Kit is now an Open Source project distributed under the MS-PL license .  There are some pretty cool techniques here that you might want to look at as you build your own Silverlight kits:

Silverlight, Video, and SketchFlow at MGFest in Austin Next Week

Next week I will be teaching two full-day workshops at the Motion Graphics Festival in Austin, Texas.  If you want to learn about Silverlight and Video Distribution and Encoding, then register for the Motion Graphics Festival today. Introduction
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