IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski
Avalon: Convergence in the Simulacrum
IRhetoric Has Moved to https://rhizohm.net/irhetoric
I'm no longer posting at this URL and all future posts will be made at https://rhizohm.net/irhetoric....
Date: 08/08/2007
Announcing Flotzam: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Blog Mash Up
Awhile back, for MIX, Tim Aidlin and I built Flitterbook. We liked it so much that we now have...
Date: 06/21/2007
Microsoft Facebook Toolkit Is Open Sourced and Moves to Codeplex
It was two weeks ago that Microsoft released the Microsoft Facebook Toolkit. The response has been...
Date: 06/08/2007
UPDATED WPF PERFORMANCE PROFILING TOOLS POSTED
A new version of the WPF Performance Profiling tools has been posted, x86 and x64, as an .msi. These...
Date: 06/07/2007
UDDI RESOURCES MIGRATED
This post has nothing to do with WPF, Expression, Silverlight, Vista or pixels. Rather, it has to do...
Date: 06/05/2007
FLITTERBOOK: INTEGRATING WITH THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM
I'm here at the Facebook Developer's event down here in San Francisco. Dan'l Lewin from Microsoft...
Date: 05/25/2007
THREE NEW EXPRESSION BLEND HANDS-ON LABS
I just posted three new hands-on labs for Expression Blend that were created for MIX but haven't...
Date: 05/22/2007
TWITTERPATED: ON TWITTER AND CONFERENCES
I'm very interested in the phenomenon of Twitter. In this piece, I want to write about a particular...
Date: 05/17/2007
DIGGING INTO LUTZ ROEDER'S MONOTONE
Check out Lutz Roeder's Monotone -- very, very cool. Pay close attention to how tightly synched the...
Date: 05/10/2007
WPF Momentum Video Posted
I just posted a high resolution copy of the WPF Momentum video shown during Ray Ozzie's MIX07...
Date: 05/09/2007
TRANSITION AND REVEAL: NEW CUSTOM CONTROLS FOR WPF, UPDATED AVALON FEATURE FEST
Kevin Moore very quietly released a new bag o' tricks that has two of the coolest controls for WPF...
Date: 05/08/2007
FLITTER: SOURCE POSTED
(Updated 6/21) -- Please go check out https://flotzam.com which is the released incarnation of this...
Date: 05/01/2007
THE DEBUT OF FLITTRBOOK
I'm here at MIX07. Nice to finally be here -- one of the reasons my blog has been rather quiet of...
Date: 04/30/2007
New Lab Posted: Creating 3D Content with Windows Presentation Foundation
I just posted a new lab for learning how to use 3D in WPF. This is a great lab that I would highly...
Date: 03/28/2007
North Face Case Study Published
A case study about the North Face Kiosk is now posted to the Microsoft Case Studies site. This is a...
Date: 03/22/2007
EXPRESSION BLEND RELEASE CANDIDATE 1: SIX NEW SAMPLES!
Expression Blend Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. The product keeps getting...
Date: 03/15/2007
SXSW INTERACTIVE REPORT #3: ON DESIGN (THE PROCESS NOT THE PRODUCT)
The diversity of the crowd at SxSW was great. I went to a lot of designer sessions, which I found...
Date: 03/14/2007
Sxsw INTERACTIVE REPORT #1
I'm down here in Austin at SxSW Interactive, a great conference and confluence of people in the...
Date: 03/12/2007
Inspired By Flash Math Creativity #3: WPF Flag
There is a clever sample up on Flash Math Creativity by Lifaros that fundamentally does 2D morph...
Date: 03/09/2007
Expression Blend Training: New Lab Posted, Training Wiki Updated
This summer, I posted a five day course for WPF. While this content is all still relevant, using a...
Date: 02/28/2007
3D Cloth Source Code Posted: Technique for WPF 3D Morph Mesh
There is a great 3D cloth demo that has been floating around interally for awhile and shown at...
Date: 02/26/2007
Inspired By Flash Math Creativity #2: WPF Planets
My next inspiration from the algorithms introduced in Flash Math Creativity was based on the work of...
Date: 02/23/2007
Inspired By Flash Math Creativity: WPF Flowers
I've recently picked up a great book called Flash Math Creativity. I been inspired by some of the...
Date: 02/16/2007
WPF Application Portfolio Wiki Updated -- More WPF Apps!
Tim Sneath has been doing a great job of blogging the many Vista/WPF showcase applications that are...
Date: 02/09/2007
Announcing Expression Blend Beta 2 and Expression Design Beta 1
You can now go download Expression Blend Beta 2 as well as Expression Design Beta 1. Both...
Date: 01/31/2007
Databinding In Expression Blend: Forget the Data and Do the Bind
I just posted a screencast showing how to wire up UI elements using Blend. The general premise is...
Date: 01/26/2007
Doninoken: WPF XBAP Piece by Bascule
Check out Doninoken, an amazing WPF piece that is part of the Japanese Vista launch, done by the...
Date: 01/25/2007
Consumer Electronics Show
I'm back to Seattle from CES, still reeling from the one-two punch of CES plus Las Vegas. I’ve been...
Date: 01/11/2007
The Definitive Post on XBAP Trust Levels
I've written about XBAPs and full trust in the past, but never as thoroughly as Karen Corby just did...
Date: 01/11/2007
Yahoo Messenger for Vista Debuts at CES
I'm here at CES, where Yahoo and Microsoft showed off a preview of the new Yahoo Messenger for...
Date: 01/09/2007
Gradient Animation Obsession Redux
I guess I didn't call it an obsession without reason, as I can't seem to keep away from those...
Date: 01/04/2007
The North Face In-Store Explorer
It was at PDC 2005 when The North Face showed a prototype of a WPF kiosk they were building. Well,...
Date: 01/02/2007
Animation Handoff Bug and Workaround for current WPF/E CTP
My good friend Hans Hugli, who doesn't have a blog but sits down the hall from me, hit the following...
Date: 12/13/2006
Gradient Obsession: A Tool For Tweaking Gradient Animations
I started getting slightly obsessed/hypnotized with gradient animations and wanted a tool to see...
Date: 12/12/2006
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Coding Practices By IDesign
When doing some WCF coding not too long ago, I came across the IDesign code samples by Juval Lowry,...
Date: 12/06/2006
Woodgrove Finance Application Source Code Posted
The Woodgrove Finance Application is a great demo of how WPF can be used to create better data...
Date: 12/05/2006
Expression Blend, WPF/E and the Torus Trip
So, if you haven't heard, Expression Interactive Designer has been renamed to Expression Blend and...
Date: 12/04/2006
Required Reading: Optimizing WPF Application Performance
If you are a WPF developer, you must read Optimizing WPF Application Performance. It is chockful of...
Date: 11/29/2006
Plumbing the SDK Samples and Unearthing More About Doing Per Frame Animation
There is a very cool sample buried deeply in the SDK called Per Frame Animation that has some very...
Date: 11/22/2006
Mike Swanson Is The Man: Flash to WPF Converter Posted
Mike Swanson, a hero already for his Illustrator to XAML converter, has posted a Thanksgiving gift:...
Date: 11/21/2006
WPF SDK Release Notes: Clean Your Clocks
Release notes for pre-release version of .NET 3.0 could be read with the hopes that some of the...
Date: 11/10/2006
.NET 3.0 Shipped and MIX07 Announced: What Better Way To Celebrate Than With A Cool WPF App From ReMIX Japan?
So, if you haven't heard the news, .NET 3.0 shipped along with the SDK! The Visual Studio Extensions...
Date: 11/08/2006
Healthcare Prototype Source Code Posted
The healthcare prototype source code, which we have demo'ed in one way or another many times, is now...
Date: 10/30/2006
Beware Of Intellisense: Some Methods are Hidden like Dispatcher.CheckAccess and Dispatcher.VerifyAccess
Just recently came across the fact that some methods are hidden from intellisense through the use of...
Date: 10/24/2006
Inter Process Communication Between Applications and Vista Gadgets Using WCF (Part 2)
Once I got WCF working in a gadget, another scenario came up: wouldn't it be nice if the gadget and...
Date: 10/20/2006