Literally 12 months since Expression Studio, we release Expression Studio 2 – the product team pulled out all the stops to meet their goal of having quick development cycles for the products. Making sure people using the Expression products get the latest tools and technologies in their hands as quickly as possible.
Alongside the new [...]
This year I was luckily enough to be onstage with Scott Guthrie during the Keynote at MIX 08. I was presenting the Rich Advertising section – squeezing in a demo that was about 2 minutes too long for it’s allocated running time
If you’d ever wondered what it was like behind stage at one [...]
I’m bad. There I’ve said it. I’ve been running Vista since Beta 1 and haven’t done a fresh install since!
I was getting low on hard drive space, I’d just started a new job… and I thought lets not do a bit of spring cleaning this time instead let’s start a fresh and do a [...]
Free? Nada? Zip? Zilch?
I was chatting to a couple of design students the week after MIX08 and they hadn’t heard about ‘Dreamspark’ so I thought I’d just highlight this fantastic initiative again.
Dreamspark gives students access to: Expression Studio, Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, XNA Game [...]
There’s good news and bad news.
Let’s deal with the bad news first. The bad news is that Mix 08 is totally sold out so if you’ve not got your ticket you’ll have to wait until next, book early! Well done to the Mix team for putting together a great schedule.
The good news is [...]
On December 19th, Blockbuster will premiere the first full-length feature film release to the web, Jackass 2.5, directly to online audiences using both Windows and Mac via Microsoft Silverlight
Jackass 2.5 will be made available for FREE, to anyone in the United States 17 or older.
As you can imagine this is one of the [...]
The workflow for both desktop and browser based apps using Expression Blend and Visual Studio is very much in the mould of the ‘designer’ builds the visual look and feel of the application in Blend and the ‘developer’ codes against those UI elements in Visual Studio. In some workflow scenarios the designer/developer are different people, [...]
Occasionally you see something that simply nails an idea so perfectly – this is one of those times.
Who needs designers when you can just use the ‘make my logo bigger’ cream – works on both printed and web material
Just check out the video at ‘Make my logo bigger‘.
And the sad [...]
I’ve only just seen this and although it’s been kicking around for a while I thought I’d share it.
Often getting the maximum impact for your design is a combination of many things, understanding the market, the right message , the right look and emotional attachment, some times the ideas that seem so simple have [...]
MIX has changed dramatically since it appeared on to the event map as a single event in Las Vegas in 2006.
This year MIX blossomed into a worldwide extravaganza which started in Las Vegas in late April, to then spread out across the globe at 17 other events.
MIX 07 – April 30 – [...]
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