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If you’ve attended one of Frank La Vigne’s talks on design for developers, you’ve probably heard of the Adobe Kuler website/tool. It’s a great tool for quickly finding (or building) a ‘theme’ of colors that work well together. Jonas Follesø, a Microsoft Regional Director from Norway, decided that Kuler was just too cool not to play with via its ...

Hope most of you end up reading this on Tuesday, but for those of you who happen to be online on Labor Day, here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:30 PM: CMAP September Main Meeting - Frank La Vigne will be presenting "Graphic Design for ...

In my previous post I wrote about how we could use Dynamic Compilation for mapping object to object in a configuration file. I spend a few minutes to see if I could do something more to it. It ended up that I can use it to several things, like creating Factories, or send in different kind of objects and map several into one. Here is how I for ...

If you’re into 3D rendering, modeling, and animation, you may want to take advantage of this. Chris Williams points out that apparently Caligari is making trueSpace 7.6 available for free, along with video tutorials. I haven’t used TrueSpace, but from the description and pics posted at Chris’ blog, it looks to be pretty powerful. And well worth ...

Frank La Vigne has posted links for his Web Wednesday session on graphic design for developers, including a link to the slide deck: Links from Graphic Design for Developers Talk Thanks again, Frank!

For today's Web Wednesdays installment, we've got a great guest presenter, Frank La Vigne, who's going to share his wisdom on graphic design for developers. The webcast will start at 12:00pm eastern time, and last one hour. Click here to join the webcast (meeting will be available shortly before noon).

Friday I announced a very cool webcast this Wednesday, in which Frank La Vigne will help turn ordinary developers into devigners (developer + designer) with some tips and techniques to help you get the most out of graphic design. The webcast has now been set up, and you can access the webcast at 12 noon eastern time on Wednesday by clicking here. ...

Next Wednesday, June 4th, at 12pm eastern, I will be pleased to host local Tablet, WPF, and Silverlight guru (and newlywed) Frank La Vigne, presenting a Web Wednesday session entitled Graphic Design for Developers. Speaking for myself, as a developer who sometimes needs to do some small graphic design tasks and often end up frustrated by my own ...

More than half a year ago Dave Campbell, Luis Abreu and I had a discussion about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF. A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and using an anti-alias effect: The example above is built with rectangles in the first line of boxes. The second line is done with the Path XAML element. ...

I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing. Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing and are maybe important for everyone. Socket Support: I don't see this in real life because ...