The Faces of Twitter

by Don Burnett   Twitter has inspired lots of people to create clients for it, not just on Mac, but on Windows as well.. It’s a very busy field. Let’s take a look at some of them.   Twitter Apollo Application (Windows and Mac)   Twitter Camp Apollo Application (also Windows and Mac) Twitteroo (Windows Application) [...]

HTML to XAML Flow Document (yet another GEM)

by Don Burnett   Here’s another great utility. If you have seen the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, or the New York Times Reader you know that they are WPF based and they use something people are referring to as the “reader SDK”. Xaml offers you great formatting and control over content. The tags it uses to control [...]

Snipshot to the Rescue!

by Don Burnett Today I noticed yet another entry to the web, when I was reading someone’s ridiculous posting claiming Microsoft was dead. The only real revelation I came to is the person realized that he probably could do all his computing needs without a Microsoft product on his machine. This is something I have [...]

WPF/E Javascript Gem

by Don Burnett   Gavin Gear has just wrote a small tool that will save an inordinate amount of time. If you do WPF/E development you know that WPF/E is a control that gets embedded on the page that can be scripted thru javascript. You can pass new xaml code in through javascript to the [...]

WPF/E Users… Stop what you are doing…

by Don Burnett Okay stop what you are doing, run over to the ADOguy’s Blog and download his WPF/E Template for Expression Blend.. You will be glad you did..   WPF/E Item Template for Expression Blend

Programmers aren’t Designers but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try!

by Don Burnett Recently on another blog I publish about Microsoft adding Expression Blend and Expression Web to MSDN. I reluctantly said I thought it was a good idea Microsoft is providing their designer tools to developers.. The developer community should understand and be able to use the toolset. Why is it a good idea? [...]

Twittering Around in Expression Blend Part 1

by Donald Burnett Expression Blend has some really cool features that expose a lot of web functionality. Today I will start a tutorial about how to create a WPF application  I have been using a service called “Twitter” one of my friends called it the greatest internet “stalking” program in the world. Sometimes your friends or [...]

The Blend-ed Family

by Don Burnett If you talk to a designer you’ll hear many takes on design, everyone has a unique approach to the subject. That’s why you get diversity. If you talk to a programmer about programming you will get a significantly less diverse answer. Well he might talk to you about open source or closed [...]

Microsoft Relents! Expression Products come to MSDN

by Don Burnett Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the water, Microsoft has relented and given Expression out to MSDN subscribers. Personally I was hoping the product would stay within the design community but I understand Microsoft’s need for it’s development community to understand the products better and embrace them [...]

AROS finds a Home

by Don Burnett Well for the past two years I have been watching a new operating system grow out of the reminants of the Amiga community. Today for the first time I was able to make a new pc out of scrap hardware from a number of older systems I own and make a working [...]