Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin: Floating Freely in Flotzam | Charles

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

"Don't tweak my XAML, dude!"

That was a fun video. Nice job Charles displaying your engaging interview skills and congrats to Karsten and Tim on making a cool application and experimenting with the Designer/Developer workflow.

Looking forward ot the next version Smiley

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

AdamKinney wrote:
"Don't tweak my XAML, dude!"

Ye, i laughed alot Big Smile

Awesome interview. I wouldnt mind more like this Wink

Tim Aidlin

It was a fun interview, and I was glad to be able to show off the app and talk about it a bit. Thanks to Charles and the team.

Karsten was awesome to work with and I'm hoping to work on more projects like this ...

I love my job Cool

NMStoker

Anybody else think, from looking at the screenshot where someone's holding their fingers at each edge of the window, that this was going to be a groovy "Microsoft Surface" type demo.

Don't get me wrong, Karsten and Tim's work is awesome, but I am a sucker for that Surface/FTIR stuff... it rocks!

swiatecki
.net - love it

NMStoker wrote:
Anybody else think, from looking at the screenshot where someone's holding their fingers at each edge of the window, that this was going to be a groovy "Microsoft Surface" type demo.

I must admit i also thought it could be a Surface app. But nevermind this rocks too Big Smile

esoteric
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I love the interview style for this kind of thing. Very relaxed and with humor. Smiley

Tim Aidlin

As to the comments regarding this looking like a Surface application, since it's all written in WPF, it would be "very easy" to port to Surface.

And by very easy I mean I actually have no idea how to do it, but I'm told that it's possible.

Does anyone think it would be worth exploring? What about being able to "grab" a panel, resize it, and automatically have more content appear in the panel as it gets bigger? That's an idea I have for the next generation of this, but I thought I'd gauge interest in this functionality.

Any other suggestions? Karsten and I were thinking about opening this up for a "remix contest". What'cha think?

JParrish

I definetly thought that the video was about touch response.. since that vid cap is the classic resize pose.

As far as it being an app for surface, I would think that in a bar.. as kind of an entertainment app, you could have the bar specify RSS feeds relevant to the particular place. For instance, a golf club house could have feeds off golf.com, ESPN, Tiger Woods myspace, etc.

Interesting app.

BloomingVision

Hot! ...when will the 90/180 day key be available for Blend, Aug.P? My 'trial' is about to expire. Wink