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Why SOLID? GIMME AN O!

The next leg of our quest to uncover the deeper driving forces behind SOLID principles brings us to the Open/Closed Principal (OCP). To refresh, I think it's important that if we're going to say (read the next part in a mouth-breathing, war-hammer-playing, mega-nerd voice) "your design violates...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008
Why SOLID? GIMME AN S!

There was some chatter on twitter today about why SOLID principles are a good idea. When designing object systems we often tote around a lot of acronyms for principles of good design, but why are these things principles? It's not enough to simply say "just because." So right here and now...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-09-2008
Composing a Webpage Layout Using Expression Design

Hey everybody, I'm Greg Smith, a new tester on the Expression Web team. In August of 2008 I was lucky enough to marry the woman of my dreams with a small wedding ceremony in Las Vegas. I really enjoy web design and while I am not a professional web designer, I get to play one at my new job as a software...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008
Just What is UX Anyway?

Working with design & authoring software all day, every day for many, many years got me thinking that great UX is just the latest buzzword for user interface design. We all appreciate a well-designed website, a beautiful, immersive game environment, and a computer program that is intuitively designed...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008
ART = DECOR

Question: What's fine art photography? Spike Mafford 's reply: "...art that's used as decor rather than a commercial application, like on a coffee mug or a packaging somehow." Art is decor ... yikes, if you feel like starting a riot sometime, say that to some artists at an art opening...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-20-2008
Am I hot or not?

You've visited the http://www.hotornot.com/ website. You've voted. You've compared your vote to the average of all other voters. (You've wondered if the rumors are true that the founders of hotornot sold it for 20 million.) Maybe you've also visited http://www.hotcaptcha.com/ , but...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-14-2008
In 3 and a half minutes, all you need to know about web design and web standards

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-04-2008
Compressing XAML to save on file size

Silverlight is great at being able to use vector art work so that you maintain quality at any viewing size. The problem is sometimes vector artwork can actually get larger in file size than raster images. To save on bandwidth, a good strategy for optimizing Silverlight is to create a skeleton XAML file...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-01-2008
Flotzam: Mashing up the Web

Have you seen Flotzam ? It's a fun mash-up that Karsten and Tim put together that aggregates a bunch of different data sources: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, YouTube and indeed any general RSS feed. You can install it either as an application or a screen saver, and it's a nice way to see what's...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-25-2008
The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit extremely limiting). A lot of desktop application...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-07-2007

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