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Smooth streaming source
this is a short one. A couple days ago I needed to create an adaptive streaming player. If you don't know what adapt...
Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo)
I knocked up a demo video of why i think Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 are gonna change the way we build apps. See why I luv...
Cynergy.Congress - Flex 4 & Catalyst in the Wild
In case you may have missed Dave Wolf's post earlier today, Dave announced the release of Cynergy.Congress , a direct...
Cynergy Publicly Releases First Ever Flex4 + Catalyst Application:...
I am very excited to continue Cynergy’s tradition of pushing the limits of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and designin...
RIA in the city
I will be in NYC this week for Internet Week . It's just like fashion week, only.... minus the fashion and plus the we...
Excerpt: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing API
Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 25: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing AP...
Excerpt: Intro to MVC Frameworks
An excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 6hapter 60: Intro to MVC Frameworks.
Excerpt: Modular Application Development
Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 66: Modular Application Development.
Excerpt: Application Performance Strategies
Here's an excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 67: Application Performance Strategies.
Cynergy.Cruises at TechEd 09
Last week we I had the honor or presenting with the Surface team during Tech.Ed about the announcement of Microsoft S...
Your App Starts Here: Cynergy Announces New Corporate Web Site ...
Three months. Countless meetings. Camera crews. Designers. Developers. Creativity, knowledge and boundless passion....
CoverFlow – built using Silverlight 3's 'Projection'...
Let me show you how I would go abouts creating a coverflow like experience using the new Silverlight 3 projection featur...
Experimenting With The New Flex 4 Animation/Effects Framework ...
The new Flex 4 Animation/Effects framework certainly looks to be promising. Here's a quick example showing how to use u...
Using Blend 3 for Silverlight 2
Outside of Sketchflow one of the coolest features in Blend 3 is the ability to easily turn visuals like paths into sta...
"Follow the Cursor" Animation - lets do it with behaviors :) ...
I found a cool effect that I wanted to reproduce as a behavior. Let me show you how I did it!
How Do You Do RIA Right? Forrester Says, Just Look at Cynergy ...
It’s one thing to think you have the right idea. It’s another thing to try your idea, and prove to yourself you have the...
It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors! ...
Let me show you how powerful behaviors are...
from the surface to the web
We have recently been doing quite a bit of Microsoft Surface work, and its made me rethink things around the importance ...
Silverlight 3 Out of Browser - Quick Rant
My personal observations of Silverlight Out of browser features in the upcomming SL3 version.
Visualizing Your Taxes With Flex
This morning I stumbled upon this post on flowingdata.com ; In the spirit of the recent "tax day" (taxes were...
Using Image Loops for Motion Graphics
I was recently chatting with Mike Wolf , our Principal Architect for .NET/Silverlight/WPF, and we stumbled upon an odd ...
Toward a New Experience Architecture
For almost two years now, I've been working under the title Senior Experience Architect and have enjoyed great and c...
Adobe AIR, Windows 7 + Multi-touch
Here are the fruits of some R & D effort that I've been involved with here at Cynergy.
Silverlight 3 Navigation framework and data
One of the great features in Silverlight 3 is the navigation framework. This will allow you to build very large Silverl...
Consuming Public Data - This Time It's The Weather
The amount of free, public data on the internet is amazing. There are so many good data providers everywhere, all waiti...
EMOTIV Thought Control, WPF and Magic
I first got a glimpse of the Emotiv headset in a small video shown at MIX08. The panel was on the future of Human / Comp...
Sketching in C#: Legos versus Clay
There is a messy quality to clay. An ability to have happy accidents, what I like to call reckless creativity, that is h...
breaking the sandbox in silverlight 3
One of the most exciting announcements at MIX 09 was the inclusion of "Out Of Browser" functionality in Silver...
Oh what a week :: Cynergy + SXSW + MIX = Love
Over the weekend, Rick Barraza demoed a handful of Microsoft Surface prototype applications in conjunction with our Micr...
Microsoft Surface Physics and SXSW
Microsoft made some great anouncements at MIX09 and I'm very glad that we can start talking about them publicly. However...
Census Mashup Redux
Back in 2007, I created a mashup combining US Census information with Flex charting capabilities and map visualization...
Bitmap-Based Charting & Real Data
Recently, I've written a few posts explaining techniques for charting extremely large data sets using bitmap manipulatio...
Very first voip + silverlight demo
Recently I have seen several blog posts about Silverlight + voip. These reminded me, I should have blogged about some o...
See you at MIX
Silverlight is really growing into its own. To think not but 2 years ago at mix 07 we stopped calling it wpf/e. This y...
Lazy-Loading Hierarchical Data
In theme with some of my recent posts regarding how to manage large data sets, this post will examine how to load large ...
Know Who You're Working For
The first in a series of articles coming out in the next week by Cynergy's User Experience Group, "Know Who You're ...
Screen-Scraping Data in AIR
So, you probably already know about the strict security-sandbox and access rules inside of Flash/Flex applications, righ...
More on bitmap-based charting of large data sets
This post is a follow-on to my recent post on visualizing large data sets . In this example, we'll take the concept o...
Silverlight ConfigurationManager
A problem I hear rumble up from a lot of .Net developers when picking up Silverlight is, “where is ?” My normal answer ...
What a beautiful, though distracting, flash website! Let's do it in...
There are a couple of things that make or break the user experience for a RIA. One of those is the "background"...
Flex 4 - Skinning Gumbo
This post provides an overview of the new skinning capabilities available in Flex 4 Gumbo components and also brushes on...
AS + JS Working Together in AIR
This post contains a few examples that show cross-communication between AIR/ActionScript and content within a mx:HTML co...
CAPFUG Presentation Online
For anyone interested, here are the recordings for my presentation at Wednesday's night’s Capital Area Flex User Group ...
Silverlight and Encryption
While working on a recent projec While working on a recent project involving Silverlight security, I was exc...
Visualizing LARGE Data Sets
Recently I heard someone bashing Flex/Flash for having slow data rendering for charts, and of course I had to disagree. ...
