Synergist
Combining Software in Amazing Ways
Upcoming Webinar: Using Web Analytics with Silverlight
Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) and media players built with Microsoft Silverlight are easily...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/28/2007
Matrix Falling Characters in Silverlight
Once you start working with a good design tool enough, it changes the way you think and see the...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/28/2007
Using LINQ to Query Data in a Mindjet MindManager Map
As most of you may know by now, earlier this year I left Mindjet to join Microsoft. Mindjet is a...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/28/2007
Upcoming Webinar: Creating a Windows Vista Gadget & Web Player for your Radio/TV Station
Now that many radio and television stations are streaming their content over the web, there are now...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/21/2007
A Free Typeface for Silverlight
When I was in architecture school at the University of Arizona, my first drawing teacher was Kirby...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/20/2007
Silverlight for Web Hosting Companies
I’d like to announce an upcoming Webcast session that I’ll be presenting on Silverlight...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/13/2007
Mindjet Labs Surpasses 10,000 Members!
One of my proudest accomplishments at Mindjet was the creation of the Mindjet Labs, a community site...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/10/2007
Fixes for Expression Design to Silverlight Workflow
I have run into two small glitches when creating Silverlight designs in Expression Design and I got...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/10/2007
Helping Build a Community at Layered Technologies
This summer, I went to a great conference sponsored by one of Microsoft's partners, Layered...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/10/2007
How the Entertainment Tonight Site was built using Silverlight
I just watched a great interview on Beet.TV about how IdentityMine built the new Emmy Awards site...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/06/2007
Upcoming Webinar on Virtual Earth in Groove
One of the synergies that generated the most interest was one where I demonstrated Virtual Earth...
Author: Synergist Date: 09/06/2007
My Open XML Talk at Mindjet
As many of you might know, before I joined Microsoft this past Spring, I worked for Mindjet as an...
Author: Synergist Date: 08/31/2007
Design Fidelity in Software
I just came back from an all-day Silverlight workshop that I gave at one of my customer's offices...
Author: Synergist Date: 08/22/2007
What's "Funny" with Software Synergies?
I am starting to see some parallels in my personal life and my work life. I have always tried to...
Author: Synergist Date: 08/07/2007
Mindjet Should Listen to their Customer Evangelists
From my point of view, Kyle McFarlin is just the type of person that Mindjet should be enabling!...
Author: Synergist Date: 08/06/2007
Picture-in-Picture Screencasts with Silverlight
In a post I just made, I wanted to show a picture-in-picture screencast of what I did with Groove...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/30/2007
Groove and Virtual Earth Screencast using Silverlight
I have recorded a screencast with Camtasia Studio that shows how I embedded a Virtual Earth control...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/30/2007
Experimenting with my Microsoft LifeCam NX6000
I have been experimenting with my Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 webcam: It clips to the top of my...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/29/2007
Updated Silverlight Applications to Release Candidate
For those of you have heard, a Release Candidate for Silverlight 1.0 was released yesterday. I had...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/28/2007
Storing Virtual Earth Pushpins in a Groove Space
Following up on my post about putting Virtual Earth in a Groove space, I was able to save and load...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/17/2007
Putting Virtual Earth in Groove
Later on today, I will be showing my manager how our distributed team could use Microsoft Office...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/17/2007
Using Silverlight in a Groove Space
A few months ago, I create a Microsoft Office Groove 2007 to share the source code for my...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/16/2007
When to Use Which Microsoft Presentation Technology
Yesterday I was visiting an IT department of a media company that was developing internal...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/10/2007
OneNote XML uses CDATA for HTML
If you look at the XML generated by the OneNote 2007 API, you will notice that the text outline...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/06/2007
Column 'TestType' does not belong to table test.
I got this cryptic error when running a unit test project for my OneNote to Silverlight converter...
Author: Synergist Date: 07/06/2007
Expression Blend in Software Development Lifecycle
I was having dinner with a friend yesterday (non-Microsoft) who manages a software development team...
Author: Synergist Date: 06/30/2007
Feist Last Night
Last night (June 26, 2007), my wife took me to a concert from one of our favorite...
Author: Synergist Date: 06/28/2007
Keeping a Digital Journal
As you have seen from my previous posts and my journals on my personal website, I am investigating...
Author: Synergist Date: 06/16/2007
Journal: A Silverlight 1.1 Application
A Silverlight 1.1 Application for sharing my sketches. This requires the Silverlight 1.1 plug-in...
Author: Synergist Date: 06/15/2007
Journal: A Silverlight 1.1 application
This is a Silverlight project that I am working on to learn Silverlght 1.1 coding in C#. It is a...
Author: Synergist Date: 06/15/2007
Talk about the Passion
One of my favorite songs from my college days was R.E.M.'s Talk about the Passion. Since I have been...
Author: Synergist Date: 06/15/2007
Why Microsoft Expression Studio?
I love design tools. In architecture school, I loved the design process so much that instead of...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/27/2007
Adding a VBA Macro to Outlook
Silly me. When I posted the macros to create Outlook appointments based on email messages and to...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/23/2007
Why XML in Silverlight is Significant
I have been working with XML for most of my career, from developing a CAD application to my roles at...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/23/2007
Scheduling your Drive Time in Outlook
When I posted the simple macro to create an appointment from an email message, I got a message from...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/18/2007
Mindjet Recommends Bloggers
In an interesting twist on a blogroll, Gaelen at Mindjet posted a map of MindManager Bloggers on the...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/16/2007
Using Expression Blend to Build Windows Applications
Just when you get really good at a tool, you find something better. This happened to me when I moved...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/10/2007
Creating an Outlook Appointment based on an Email Message
I've always wanted to do this: I get an email message and I want to create an appointment from the...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/09/2007
Just Got the Twitter Bug
var TwitterWrapper = null; function...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/08/2007
New Groove Workspace for Silverlight Map Project
I have just setup a Groove Workspace for the Silverlight Map demo that I have been working on. If...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/08/2007
Ian Blackburn's Map of Silverlight Resources
var IansMapWrapper = null; function...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/05/2007
Creating a Silverlight Application with MindManager
function CreateSilverlight(){Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source:...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/01/2007
Create a Silverlight Map
function CreateIansSilverlight(){Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source:...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/30/2007
Mindjet MindManager and Silverlight
It seems that Microsoft's Sliverlight (formerly WPF/e) is the topic of the day. Since I first...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/16/2007
Comparing Download Numbers
When I was running the Mindjet Labs, I frequently posted solutions that showed off the power of the...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/14/2007
One Thing Leads to Another
One of the things that I have learned over my career is that "one thing leads to another" and your...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/13/2007
What is a Synergist?
Throughout my career, I have developed a specialty for combining technologies in interesting ways...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/10/2007