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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...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-07-01 23:02:42.0 | By michaelwolf

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...

Jose Fajardo | Blend | 2009-06-30 20:36:42.0 | By josefajardo

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...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-06-10 09:43:12.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Dave Wolf | General | 2009-06-10 06:00:54.0 | By davewolf

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...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-06-01 10:47:27.0 | By michaelwolf

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...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-05-27 10:37:35.0 | By andrewtrice

Excerpt: Intro to MVC Frameworks

An excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 6hapter 60: Intro to MVC Frameworks.

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-05-27 07:28:02.0 | By andrewtrice

Excerpt: Modular Application Development

Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 66: Modular Application Development.

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-05-27 07:00:03.0 | By andrewtrice

Excerpt: Application Performance Strategies

Here's an excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 67: Application Performance Strategies.

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-05-26 12:38:30.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-05-21 09:58:50.0 | By michaelwolf

Your App Starts Here: Cynergy Announces New Corporate Web Site ...

Three months. Countless meetings. Camera crews. Designers. Developers. Creativity, knowledge and boundless passion....

Dave Wolf | General | 2009-05-14 09:28:39.0 | By davewolf

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...

Jose Fajardo | Silverlight | 2009-05-12 18:14:28.0 | By josefajardo

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...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-04-29 09:02:44.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-04-26 19:42:18.0 | By michaelwolf

"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!

Jose Fajardo | Blend | 2009-04-23 08:42:25.0 | By josefajardo

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...

Dave Wolf | General | 2009-04-20 12:18:55.0 | By davewolf

It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors! ...

Let me show you how powerful behaviors are...

Jose Fajardo | General | 2009-04-20 01:34:35.0 | By josefajardo

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 ...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-04-19 20:32:49.0 | By michaelwolf

Silverlight 3 Out of Browser - Quick Rant

My personal observations of Silverlight Out of browser features in the upcomming SL3 version.

Jose Fajardo | Silverlight | 2009-04-19 18:10:42.0 | By josefajardo

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...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-04-17 08:46:28.0 | By andrewtrice

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 ...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-04-15 13:36:51.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Rick Barraza | General | 2009-04-14 16:15:30.0 | By rickbarraza

Adobe AIR, Windows 7 + Multi-touch

Here are the fruits of some R & D effort that I've been involved with here at Cynergy.

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-04-10 06:06:02.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-04-03 21:00:29.0 | By michaelwolf

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...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-03-27 10:41:59.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Rick Barraza | General | 2009-03-26 18:41:20.0 | By rickbarraza

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...

Rick Barraza | General | 2009-03-24 01:00:00.0 | By rickbarraza

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...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-03-22 21:55:42.0 | By michaelwolf

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...

Dave Wolf | General | 2009-03-19 10:01:46.0 | By davewolf

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...

Rick Barraza | General | 2009-03-19 01:00:00.0 | By rickbarraza

Census Mashup Redux

Back in 2007, I created a mashup combining US Census information with Flex charting capabilities and map visualization...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-03-06 08:03:01.0 | By andrewtrice

Bitmap-Based Charting & Real Data

Recently, I've written a few posts explaining techniques for charting extremely large data sets using bitmap manipulatio...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-02-12 11:04:01.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Michael Wolf | General | 2009-02-08 00:04:56.0 | By michaelwolf

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...

Michael Wolf | Silverlight | 2009-02-03 12:33:39.0 | By michaelwolf

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 ...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-02-02 08:20:56.0 | By andrewtrice

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 ...

Aaron Adams | General | 2009-01-20 08:28:10.0 | By aaronadams

Screen-Scraping Data in AIR

So, you probably already know about the strict security-sandbox and access rules inside of Flash/Flex applications, righ...

Andrew Trice | General | 2009-01-05 14:32:40.0 | By andrewtrice

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...

Andrew Trice | General | 2008-12-23 06:37:53.0 | By andrewtrice

Silverlight ConfigurationManager

A problem I hear rumble up from a lot of .Net developers when picking up Silverlight is, “where is ?” My normal answer ...

Michael Wolf | Silverlight | 2008-12-15 13:24:11.0 | By michaelwolf

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"...

Jose Fajardo | General | 2008-12-14 17:12:12.0 | By josefajardo

Flex 4 - Skinning Gumbo

This post provides an overview of the new skinning capabilities available in Flex 4 Gumbo components and also brushes on...

Joel Carras | General | 2008-12-12 09:10:12.0 | By joelcarras

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...

Andrew Trice | General | 2008-12-08 06:57:17.0 | By andrewtrice

CAPFUG Presentation Online

For anyone interested, here are the recordings for my presentation at Wednesday's night’s Capital Area Flex User Group ...

Andrew Trice | General | 2008-12-05 06:18:48.0 | By andrewtrice

Silverlight and Encryption

While working on a recent projec While working on a recent project involving Silverlight security, I was exc...

Michael Wolf | Silverlight | 2008-12-04 13:16:30.0 | By michaelwolf

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. ...

Andrew Trice | General | 2008-12-04 06:44:38.0 | By andrewtrice
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