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StartupWeekend in San Francisco

skeezicks — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:44:25 GMT

What happens when you throw together several 100 technologists in to a room for 54 hours and have them startup a company?

StartupWeekend is a chance for the tech community to gather and create a company over one jam packed weekend. In this interview, Anand Iyer, Microsoft Evangelist, catches with Andrew Hyde, founder of StartupWeekend during StartupWeekend San Francisco that was held at the Microsoft offices on 11/18. Andrew talks about how the idea for StartupWeekend came about, the success they have had, and what people can expect in a typical weekend.

Silverlight: Integrating with HTML DOM

skeezicks — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:16:13 GMT

Hi, I'm Tim Heuer.

This screencast attempts to demonstrate the ease of functionality in interacting with both the HTML and Silverlight DOM elements. We take a baseball ticket purchasing scenario using an image map of the stadium and demonstrate a different experience in browsing the various options for ticket purchases in this simple demonstration.

Creating Arcs and Changing Centers with Expression

skeezicks — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:48:01 GMT

Hi, I'm Tim Heuer.

Answering a post on the silverlight.net forum I felt it would better to visually demonstrate how I used the Expression tools (Design and Blend) to create an arc (half circle) as well as changing the rotation point of an element for animations.

Check out my blog for more goodness.

Cheating at Creating a Media Player for Silverlight

skeezicks — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:47:08 GMT

Want to create a media experience for Silverlight but don't want to write all the logic code? This podcast walks you through steps to use output templates from Expression Media Encoder and alter the XAML to your liking and needs. View http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/08/31/cheating-creating-silverlight-media-player.aspx for more details and some pointers.

Using SVG Assets in Expression Design

skeezicks — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:24:21 GMT

Leverage your existing SVG assets in Expression Design to produce XAML elements for WPF and/or Silverlight applications. This screencast demonstrates converting SVG files to XAML using Expression Design and consuming them in a Silverlight application.

Silverlight: Implementing User Controls in 1.1

skeezicks — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:59:46 GMT

In Part 2 of Creating User Controls in Silverlight, we take our learnings from Part 1 and apply them to implementing the same user control (Glass Button) in a Silverlight 1.1 application. We use the similar model of InitializeFromXaml but as well, learn how we can implement the user control in XAML directly using familiar user control syntax similar to ASP.NET controls.

Silverlight: Implementing User Controls in 1.0

skeezicks — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:40:23 GMT

Learn how to write your own User Control using Silverlight 1.0 and the Javascript prototype programming model. This screencast walks through the steps for implementing your custom XAML User Control in a project. This is a part 1 of 2 series. Part 2 will demonstrate using the same model to implement the User Control in Silverlight 1.1.

Preparing for Silverlight Release Candidate

skeezicks — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:38:25 GMT

A quick screencast showing some simple steps in preparing your Silverlight 1.0 applications for the release candiate. We walk through 2 samples on silverlight.net and prep them for RC.

This is a very simple screencast demonstrating some of the more required steps. Every preparation for your sample may vary depending on the amount of code, but this is intended to show you some quick steps.

iPhoneDevCamp: David Recordon and Artur Bergman on OpenID and the iPhone

skeezicks — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:36:03 GMT

David Recordon, Artur Bergman and Anand Iyer talk about OpenID, the iPhone, iPhoneDevCamp among other things.

iPhoneDevCamp: Chris Messina

skeezicks — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:27:56 GMT

Chris Messina and Anand Iyer talk about BarCamp, iPhones, etc.

iPhoneDevCamp: Patrick Scoble

skeezicks — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:22:45 GMT

Patrick Scoble and Anand Iyer talk about Patrick's experience of buying the iPhone, what he intends to do with it, and why he's at iPhoneDevCamp.

Silverlight: Creating Video with Timed Overlays

skeezicks — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:51:56 GMT

Building off the concept that Expression Media Encoder and Expression Blend 2 Preview together, demonstrating encoding a file with media markers and then using Silverlight to monitor when those markers are triggered, then perform some animation.

This technique can be useful when re-using media elements across advertising for example, but displaying different messaging, promotional offers, links, languages, or whatever.

MIX07 Podcast: Peter Kellner and Elisa Johnson with Anand Iyer on Code Camps, Silverlight and Data P

skeezicks — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:01:29 GMT

Peter Kellner, MVP, ASP.NET and Elisa Johnson, Microsoft Program Manager on the Data Programmability team, talk about MIX 07, Project Astoria and Project Jasper.

MIX07 Podcast: Jeff Atwood and Anand Iyer on MIX, Silverlight, Blogging and Trends

skeezicks — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:58:50 GMT

Anand Iyer catches up with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror fame to talk about their experiences of MIX 07, Silverlight, Jeff’s work, blogging and current trends in academia with regards to computer science and technology.

MIX07 Podcast: Rory Blyth and Anand Iyer on "stuff"

skeezicks — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:55:38 GMT

The interviewer becomes the interviewee : Rory Blyth and Anand Iyer catch up at MIX 07, after their last, umm, Anand Iyer catches up with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror fame to talk about their experiences of MIX 07, Silverlight, Jeff’s work, blogging and current trends in academia with regards to computer science and technology.

MIX07: Phil Haack and Open Source

skeezicks — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:32:44 GMT

While at MIX07, I had a chance to catch-up with Phil Haack and talk briefly about open source projects, Subtext and what he'd like to see from Microsoft.

Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2005

skeezicks — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:25:19 GMT

Tim Heuer takes a look at what a code snippet is in Visual Studio 2005, some examples of them, tools to create them, and a community resource for sharing code snippets on GotCodeSnippets.NET.