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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:05 AM

Expression Blend is NOT Visual Studio for Designers

Around the time that Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 were launched it appeared that Microsoft was clearly making the Visual Studio IDE the platform of choice for all developer tools. Unfortunately (well this is yet to be seen) no one thought to...
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:00 PM

User Experience is more than just Flash (or even Silverlight) Annimations

Last night Shane Morris gave his "age of user experience" presentation to the Perth .NET Community of Practice which was extremely well attended with over 50 people turning up to hear the Microsoft user experience story. I would like to thank...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 5:25 PM

Great work Frank!

If you haven't already you should check out today’s Australian Financial Review as there is a great photo of Frank and article about Silverlight which follows Frank's post t about an interview he gave last week. Whilst the photo isn't in the...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:15 AM

Qtek (aka HTC Wizard) v's the HTC Vox

So today a Qtek branded HTC Wizard (aka the K-Jam) arrived on my desk and I have once again renewed my subscription as a Pocket PC user. While I'm not sure Dave agrees with me, I definitely prefer the usability of the Pocket PC in contrast to the...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:08 PM

WCF, WPF - MS stop wasting your breath

This is a post where I get to vent some frustration at our attempts at Intilecta to build large enterprise software using the latest technologies. Recently we have been talking about using WCF and/or WPF for parts of the application. After spending a...
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Monday, April 16, 2007 6:22 AM

WPF/E gets a SilverLight

Those naming wizards at Microsoft (aka the marketing department) have been at it again. This time they have rebranded the Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (aka WPF/E) as Microsoft SilverLight. Over in the Backstage at MED, Loke has the story
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