Tag Archives: Developers

Flash and Silverlight Jobs

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Silverlight has been Microsoft’s golden child since v2 was released last year. The impact within the community has been astounding. Some demand the use of Silverlight without actually recognizing when and where the technology makes sense and others scoff at … Continue reading →

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A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Peter Loebel

From Tim Heuer  Since we appear to be in another revolution on user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX), I’ve seen a lot of people, companies, sites refer to the designer-developer workflow, including Microsoft.  Heck we’re building tools around … Continue reading →

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3D Game Development with Silverlight free book download

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Beginner’s Guide free book download This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete interactive 3D game using Silverlight and enhancing it through its related technologies. The book focuses on practical examples and has a friendly approach, with the … Continue reading →

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You’re Making Applications Backwards

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Peter Loebel

In The Silverlight Trenches This show is all about Developer/Designer misconceptions.   There’s a marketing story (“Designers use Blend and Developers use Visual Studio”), but how does this work out in real life?  To find out, I interviewed Mike Wolf.  He … Continue reading →

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Help drive VS/Silverlight user experience

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Peter Loebel

from Tim Heuer One of my colleagues, Corrina, pointed me today to some research her team is conducting on user experience with Visual Studio and Silverlight.  From her post today, …that my co-workers on the Visual Studio User Experience Team … Continue reading →

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iPhone_Silverlight MonoTouch Roadmap

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Peter Loebel

This is what we would like to see happen with MonoTouch, priorities and goals will change based on what we hear from developers. Version 2.0 Silverlight to iPhone compiler. There will be Limitations on it. Debugger support. Expand the API … Continue reading →

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Share, Inspire, Admire: Expression Community Gallery for Designers & Developers

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Where can you share–and find–design-related assets at Microsoft? Just a few weeks ago, we launched an easy answer to this dilemma. The Expression Gallery on the Expression Community site gives you a place to show off the projects you’ve been … Continue reading →

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Social Networking for Developers – Conference Talk Video

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Peter Loebel

First, a disclaimer. This is some really seriously guerilla video. Paul Mooney was kind enough to bust out his video camera and film my keynote at Devscovery in NYC this last Monday. (This was the same trip where I hung … Continue reading →

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