The Mindjet Labs

PhotoSynth of the Golden State Model Railroad Museum

Synergist — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:38:25 GMT

Today I took my boys to the Golden State Model Railroad Museum in Point Richmond, north of San Francisco. I brought my camera to try out the new Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth . Alex is in the green shirt and Sam is wearing a red one....( Read More......(read more)

Social Network Junkie

Synergist — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:57:32 GMT

Because I work from home, I need to stay connected with my colleagues, my customers, my partners, my friends: my community. As I try to stay connected with people in my virtual community, I am trying out all sorts of social networks on the web. ...( Read More......(read more)

Some Early Feedback on IE8 Beta 2 from one of my Customers

Synergist — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:41:06 GMT

I just got an email from one of my customers about the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 that became available yesterday: I downloaded the new IE 8 Beta 2 and I have to say it is an outstanding browser. All the little issues I had that stopped me from...( Read More......(read more)

Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008

Synergist — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:27:45 GMT

Next week I will be in New York City meeting customers and I will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF applications with Expression Studio and Visual Studio. ...( Read More......(read more)

Talking About Expression Blend at SDForum Windows SIG in Mtn. View 8/28/2008

Synergist — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:44:01 GMT

I love using Expression Blend. With both a design education (architecture) and a career in software development, I've become somewhat of an expert on using Microsoft's Expression Blend for designing WPF and Silverlight user experiences. Over...( Read More......(read more)

Vote for my SxSW 2009 Panels

Synergist — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:27:40 GMT

If you have any interest in Expression Blend or how I made these journals , you should vote for the two panels that I've submitted for the South by Southwest (SxSW) 2009 interactive festival : Extreme Expression Blend for Silverlight Designers - as many...( Read More......(read more)

How I Discovered Port O'Brien's Five and Dime

Synergist — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:10:17 GMT

I participated in a panel discussion at the Bandwidth conference in San Francisco where I met Chuck Fishman from Cisco. We were talking about discovering music, and Chuck told me about the Hype Machine . I went to the Hype Machine and saw a link for ...( Read More......(read more)

At the Bandwidth Conference

Synergist — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:38:20 GMT

Today I spent the afternoon at the Bandwidth conference in San Francisco. I met quite a few people in the very interesting intersection of music and technology. One cool company that I learned about was JamBase.com , a site for finding Live...( Read More......(read more)

Created Popfly Block for FeedBurner Awareness API

Synergist — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:13:02 GMT

Since I created my first mashup with Popfly over a year ago, it has really come a long way. Now it is really easy to create your own blocks and share your mashup creations. For those of use who have blogs, the RSS feed is a way of life - it...( Read More......(read more)

Added FireFox, Safari, and IE7 support to the Silverlight 2 Paging Demo

Synergist — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:15:40 GMT

With just a little code and some prompting from people on Twitter, I was able to add support for FireFox, Safari, and IE7 to the paging demo that I wrote on http://xmldocs.net/sl2paging . Basically I added a DispatcherTimer to my page class and...( Read More......(read more)

Using Code Analysis with Silverlight

Synergist — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:42:49 GMT

Ever since I was in the C++ world, I have been enamored with code analysis tools; I used to live by PC-Lint . So since I started using C# a few years ago code analysis was something that I wanted to integrate into my C# coding practice as...( Read More......(read more)

My Wife, the Blogger

Synergist — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:21:14 GMT

Our lives are full of wonder. Over the past 6 years, my wife has been focused on creating a home and raising our two boys, Alex and Sam and doing so she has delighted in seeing that wonder. After experiencing one too many incident where she...( Read More......(read more)

Meet Me at the Visual Mapping Conference

Synergist — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:12:31 GMT

As many of you may know I am a visual person - I have kept journals ever since starting my architecture education. My journals are a mix of drawing, sketching, collage, watercoloring, visual mapping, and photography. I have started to post...( Read More......(read more)

Using a ConverterParameter in a Silverlight 2 Value Converter

Synergist — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:41:51 GMT

In building a Silverlight 2 application with data binding, you often need to convert between data types and many of the data types that you use already have built-in converter. One type that does have a built-in converter is the DateTime type. ...( Read More......(read more)

Lenovo Uses WPF for Laptop Power Manager applet

Synergist — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:26:35 GMT

I have been using a Lenovo T60p computer with Windows Vista since I joined Microsoft last year. Lenovo has a great System update utility that keeps the service packs and applets up to date. Recently the update utility installed a new version...( Read More......(read more)