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Tech Insights 2009

Kok Chiann — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:14:06 +0000

It’s only a few more days to Tech Insights 2009, I will be there giving a tag team presentation with my pal Yee Jie on What’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3. We’ll be showcasing the possibilities of Silverlight 3 and the new features in Expression Blend 3, and then we’ll team up and design and develop a Silverlight application on the spot, showing the process and workflow from the prototyping to production stage.

This is definitely the IT event of the year! Looking forward to see you guys there!

Cool Silverlight 3 Samples by Joe Stegman

Kok Chiann — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:27:20 +0000

Joe Stegman has been nice enough to compile a list of samples he presented in Mix 2009 which are all pretty awesome, I especially love his sample with the bouncing balls to show the Local Messaging feature of Silverlight. Here are some preview of what samples you can find.

Chess Wars

Perspective 3D

I believe these samples here must have whet your appetite, here’s the link to his blog post with the full list of downloadable samples.

Blend 3, marquee keyframe selection!

Kok Chiann — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:55:54 +0000

It’s finally here guys and girls, marquee keyframe selection for Expression Blend, I have been waiting so long for this feature and my will this be a time saver (life saver when dealing with tight deadlines) when dealing with complex animations

Found out about it from this post, Keyframe marquee selection from the Expression Blend and Design blog, excerpt below:

“With Blend 3 it’s now possible to draw a marquee (or lasso) around keyframes to select all the keyframes that fall within it. Hold down the CTRL key then drag out a marquee with the mouse pointer as shown below. You can even begin your drag operation when the mouse pointer is over a keyframe or an animation bar; so long as CTRL is pressed, this will not result in selecting and/or moving any keyframe or animation.”

Silverlight 3 Coverflow

Kok Chiann — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:03:17 +0000

I have been looking around for a free coverflow sample control and stumbled upon this gem. The source code is even shared out so you can see how the author of this cool component made the coverflow control, taking advantage of Perspective 3D that is newly introduced in Silverlight 3.

View the live sample here and here’s the link to the download page for this cool Silverlight Coverflow control.

MIX On Campus @ APIIT/UCTI

Kok Chiann — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:51:43 +0000

MIX On Campus is in town!

I have been invited to give a session titled Developer + Designer = Deviger, tag teamed with Daqing Lee, MVP in Expression Blend. Our session will be focused on on Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3, excerpt is as below:

“Interactive technologies are evolving even more aggressively lately. Now people are expecting more intuitive interfaces and richer user experiences. Thus, it’s not about pointing fingers between the developers or the designers, but more on the collaborative workflow between them. With the latest release of the Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 tools, we will see how interactive professionals transform their vision and creativity into reality“

Hope to see you there