I just started a "Digital Photography 2" course at the Photographic Center Northwest. I’ve had two classes so far and am liking it a lot (though having 10+ hours of homework a week is both LOTS Of fun… and a bit tricky). The first assignment was to photograph 15 letters – but not real letters. 🙂 Here are the results of my first assignment – can you guess which letter is which? (You can click through to my flickr site to see if you’re right.)
Random: I just finished last week’s New Yorker on the bus. Did you know that… A penny costs 1.7 cents to make? A nickel costs ~10 cents to make? A lobby funded by Jarden Zinc Products (major supplier of penny cores for the U.S. Mint) prevented the last "get rid of pennies" legislature? Coinstar is now one of the biggest pro-penny lobbies? Just crazy. Ah, the way the world works. 🙂
This is going to be a three parter. 🙂 Today, we’ll dig into the core networking capabilities of the HTTP stack for site of origin communication. In the next two parts, we’ll go deep into understanding our HTTP cross domain support. Note: this tutorial has been updated for Silverlight 2 RTW. (Series Links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) So, You Want To Phone Home… In Silverlight 2, by default, you are only able to talk back to your site of origin server. This is in line with the general browser sandbox, and is designed to prevent cross site …
As promised…. Mark Rideout, another Silverlight Program Manager, talks about Silverlight 2’s accessibility support. Watch the video here.
The cherry blossoms in Seattle started blooming a couple of weeks ago. The official first day of spring was last Thursday. QUESTION: What the #*@(#% is it doing snowing??? — Signed, California Girl (Yes… I did just make you watch snow falling to the ground.)
Every once in a while you capture a moment that’s just too good to be true. While you’re shooting it, you’re both (a) really excited, and (b) feelin’ kinda corny, because the photos look almost posed. That’s how I felt when I stumbled upon these shots today.
A photo stroll through downtown seattle… i seem to have a thing for empty chairs lately.
I was reading the FlickrBlog the other day, and saw photos from their 4 year birthday celebration. I loved the walls of 5x7s, and decided to cover my closet doors with a similar collage of my own photos. For the job, I went to AdoramaPix, which is my favorite photo printing site. (I did a print test from several different places about a year ago, and they won hands down.) Their prints are great, and they run great specials every once in a while. The actual ordering of prints from Adorama, however, has always been ridiculously painful. Adorama’s photo upload …
Updated 3/22/09: SnippetManager now copies the snippet to the clipboard when selected. I’ve gotten a lot requests for the snippet manager I used at my Mix08 session. So as promised, here it is for everyone who is interested: app, code. The first incarnation of this application was done by Nick Kramer (Thanks Nick!). I’ve tweaked it and added a WPF frontend. How do I use it? To use a snippet, drag the title of the snippet to the desired target app. In order to move the app around, drag the black bottom portion of the window. The topmost checkbox and …
At my Mix08 session last week, I showed off a FlickrViewr app that I had written. You can search different user’s photos (or search all public photos by leaving the username blank). updated: This app has been updated for Beta2. All of its controls now use VSM! updated: This app now uses DevDave‘s AnimatingWrapPanel. updated: Updated for Silverlight 3. FlickrViewr (app, code) In order to run it on your own, you need to go to flickr and get your own flickr api key. Special thanks to Pete Blois. I expanded upon his Xml Serialization Flickr library. 🙂 This FlickrViewr application …