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Third Best New Zealander…

Friday, June 29th, 2007

After Neil Finn, JD comes Nas. She is smart and really funny.
She's started her blog, Flickr'ng and met her hero all in the same week. Not to mention something with fish. Here she is choosing lunch, or finding Nemo. Or probably both.

WPF and Silverlight for Designers. Removing the "bloke-i-ness" of Silverlight and making it real.  [...]

The Geek Stories: Joseph Cooney, LearnWPF and Thoughtex

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

As recently highlighted by Frank Arrigo, Joseph Cooney's ThoughtEx is an excellent example of how interfaces can be created by code cutters. Yes, Shane, there are probably many UX rules Joseph is breaking.
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A Day in The Life of a Professional Geek…

Friday, March 16th, 2007

4:00am AEDST - alarm, alarm, alarm. Snooze for 5 minutes, then up and check the laptop in the midst of uploading an episode of "The Geek Stories" to Redmond. Failed. Bugger, not happy Jan.  Must find a more efficient way to get these videos posted faster. Sometimes it might just be easier to Blip.TV these [...]

XML Goo-i-ness Inside

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Microsoft pre-released their XAML-in-the-browser technology, WPF/e earlier this week. XAML inside.
XAML "smells" like the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). DOM-inside-a-DOM, Declarative animation, 2D graphics. XAML maybe not SVG, but it certainly tips its hat to SVG.
Adobe today pre-released their XML-in-a-PDF technology, Mars, for Acrobat 8. Essentially, Mars as a technology is presently delivered as [...]

New York Times Reader Trumps Adobe Reader

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

The recently released New York Times Reader (http://www.nytimes.com/mem/reader_regi.html) is what the Adobe PDF Reader should be today. Small, data-driven, dynamic, interactive and skinable.
Scott Hanselman states this is a precursor to WPF based RSS readers. I am going to go one further and state this is the future of dynamic publishing for large, paper-based publishers. A [...]