Obamarama
Yes We Can!! Celebrating at Pike Place Market. obama showed up! confetti with orkestar zirkonium in the background
PDC: Silverlight 2 Control Model Session (PC29)
Thank you to everyone who made it to my talk on Thursday! As promised, some links: Session deck Session samples Session recording Also, if you haven’t already, please take the time to fill out the online evaluation. Your comments help me be a better speaker. 🙂
Silverlight 2 Changes
Between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 & Silverlight 2 RTW, there were a few changes and additions. Here’s a brief rundown on the areas I directly worked on. The overall breaking change list can be found here. Control Model Silverlight 2 RTW Updates generic.xaml lives in themes directory For WPF compat, we’re now looking for generic.xaml at themesresources.xaml. It still needs to be built as an assembly resource. VisualTransition.GeneratedDuration The VisualTransition.Duration’s property name has changed. It is now called VisualTransition.GeneratedDuration. This value will only impact the duration of generated transition animations. It has no affect on the VisualTransition.Storyboard animations. VisualTransition.Storyboard …
Silverlight @ PDC!
Here are some of the Silverlight-focused PDC sessions. Hope to see you there! Session Time Speaker Expression Blend: Tips and Tricks Mon 10/2712:45-1:30pm Pete Blois,Douglas Olson Silverlight, WPF, and the .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code Mon 10/273:30 – 4:45PM Ian Ellison-Taylor Silverlight: Building Business Focused Apps Tues 10/283:30 – 4:45pm Jamie Cool Deep Dive: Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight Tues 10/285:15 – 6:30pm SeemaRamchandani Silverlight Controls Roadmap Wed10/2912:00 – 12:45pm Shawn Burke Inside the Olympics: An Architecture and Development Overivew Wed 10/291:15 – 2:30pm Eric Schmidt, Jason Suess Microsoft Silverlight 2: Control Model Thurs 10/3010:15 …
Silverlight 2 has SHIPPED!
It’s official – we’ve shipped Silverlight 2! ScottGu, our VP, has a great release blog post, which is worth a read. You can get all the new SL2 downloads here: Install Silverlight 2 runtime. Install Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Install Expression Blend 2 SP1 update. (If you don’t already have Expression Blend 2, you can get a free trial.) On a personal note, it’s been a privilege to work with such a great group of people to put out this product. I’ve learned a lot, and more importantly, had a lot of fun. So, a shout out …
Photo Series
My photo class last spring had a final project. I finally finished editing it. (I cheated a little bit and replaced the opening photo with one that I took before the class started… but it really fit the theme, so oh well. 🙂 ) You can see the series as a slideshow. (For best viewing, uncheck “Options” -> “Embiggen small things to fill screen”) I hope you enjoy it.
Beany & Brian’s Wedding
Last month, I had the awesome honor of being Beany’s best woman. The wedding was so much fun. And she was a beautiful bride. beautiful beany picturesque beany and brian… yes, that sign says fri fish fry. wedding details first dance at the salon, getting pretty classy
“Understanding” the Financial Crisis
A few months ago, I listened to the “The Giant Pool of Money” episode on “This American Life.” It gave the most understandable explanation of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that I’ve heard. Now, the same folks tackle the bailout question in “Another Frightening Show About the Economy“. A preview of it can also be found here: “Is The Bailout Worth It?“ The preview is posted on a new podcast and blog called “Planet Money,” which is done by some of the same folks and covers the ongoing economic situation. Anyways, both “This American Life” episodes (“The Giant Pool of Money” …
Sloan & Drew’s Wedding
Over Labor Day, I got to spend a few relaxing days in Kauai for Sloan & Drew’s Wedding. here comes the bride i know it’s in here somewhere lovely holding hands under the banyan tree waimea canyon – the grand canyon of pacific ocean! tree overlooking kalulua beach
Randomness: Rent-a-Ruminant
On the bus this morning, I saw about 20 goats wandering around the Plymouth Pillars dog park in Capitol Hill. Yes, I said goats. There was a “Rent-a Ruminant” sign hanging – quite simply, this company “brings [their] goats to your location to eat a wide range of vegetation, such as blackberries, ivy, and other invasive species. ” Clever. 🙂