http://electricbeach.org Christian Schormann Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:31:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=975 http://electricbeach.org/?p=975#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:31:37 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=975 One day I asked my daughter Mara what she was drawing: “Oh, I’m just painting flowers in the sky” she answered. Another day, after a very sick night, she said to me in the morning: “Don’t worry about it Dad – when I am sick at night, my angel comes and takes me for a ride”. And [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=975 0 http://electricbeach.org/?p=973 http://electricbeach.org/?p=973#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:46:03 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=973 My talk on Blend for HTML, given at the Build conference yesterday, is now online.In the demo, I create the UI for a simple casual memory game, beginning with clean, UI-free, semantic markup and the backing JavaScript code that goes with it. From early 90’s browser look to Metro-style in less than an hour [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=973 0 http://electricbeach.org/?p=966 http://electricbeach.org/?p=966#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:16:04 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=966 We have been very hard at work on a new project that we could not talk about – until today. In today’s keynote at Microsoft’s Build conference, we have shown an exciting new flavor of Expression Blend: Blend for HTML, to create Metro-style user interfaces for Windows 8 using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I have been [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=966 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=962 http://electricbeach.org/?p=962#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:17:21 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=962 We have just published a cool new SketchFlow template that makes it a lot easier to prototype Windows Phone 7 applications. You can find it on codeplex as a free download.    With this new template, you get all the building blocks for phone applications, such as sketched device frames, pivot and panorama controls, the phone-specific [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=962 0 http://electricbeach.org/?p=951 http://electricbeach.org/?p=951#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:23:35 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=951 It is finally Spring in Seattle, and it’s Mix in Las Vegas. Many of you, our faithful Expression Blend customers, have become accustomed to also see a new version of Expression Blend blossom with the flora of the land. This year, however, Expression Blend is on a different schedule, and we will not unveil the [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=951 0 http://electricbeach.org/?p=950 http://electricbeach.org/?p=950#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:01:36 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=950 When there is something that processes pixels, I usually get curious at one point or another (after all, I used to design compositing systems for a living). So when a long lost moment of time unexpectedly appeared at my door step, I finally got to play with SVG filter effects. And as I kind of [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=950 4 http://electricbeach.org/?p=883 http://electricbeach.org/?p=883#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:18:29 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=883 Today, buuteeq.com, founded by a number of ex-Microsoft employees, officially launched. Buuteeq aims to solve an important business problem that many independent hotels share: How to build an impressive, competitive, and cost effective internet presence that makes the hotel accessible to the millions of travelers that plan and book their travel online? Buuteeq is a [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=883 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=868 http://electricbeach.org/?p=868#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:37:52 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=868 Entirely unrelated to my usual blog post topics: The Sight of an Angel, a compilation of a few pieces of music I wrote between 1985 and 2010, is now available on Amazon and iTunes. Feedback welcome. ]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=868 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=867 http://electricbeach.org/?p=867#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:57:38 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=867 Not a new post, but still good: Sandrino Di Mattia has a list on his blog with links to all the videos, assets and scripts for the 5-day on ramp training in one place: http://sandrinodimattia.net/blog/post/Complete-Expression-Blend-and-Silverlight-5-day-OnRamp-training-course-All-videos-all-assets-download-packages-in-one-place.aspx ]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=867 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=866 http://electricbeach.org/?p=866#comments Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:14:14 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=866 Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s VP in charge of Silverlight, and others from the Silverlight team will hold an event on December 2nd about what is coming next for Silverlight… The event is in Redmond, but you can also participate online. More information and registration is here. This should be a fun event Please join us! ]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=866 0