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• 10.31.08
  Announcing Silverlight ‘Artists in Residence’ - Melbourne 1-5 December Expression, Melbourne, Silverlight | (0)

  Back in February, Kordesy and I attended a program called "Artists in Residence" in Redmond. We had a blast, and learned stuff too! So Kordesy was determined to bring the Artists in Residence magic to Australia. Therefore... announcing the first Aussie Artists in Residence! Artists in Residence The idea of Artists in Residence is to quickly get designers and developers productive with Microsoft Silverlight. Basically it works like this: Artists in Residence runs for 5 days. You send along 2 people – a designer and a developer. The developer needs basic .NET programming skills, the designer doesn’t need any particular MS skills, but ...
• 10.20.08
  The Delicate Genius and Shane discuss Silverlight Expression, Silverlight, Surface, TechEd | (0)

  Check out the podcast Kordesy and I did with Jeremy Kelaher at Tech.Ed. The Delicate Genius and Shane discuss Silverlight As Kordesy says, we talk about: Silverlight Adoption The state of Silverlight in Australia and who’s using it Designers and Silverlight/Expression They synergies between Mesh and Silverlight Surface
• 09.10.08
  Microsoft Expression Social Community Site, Expression | (0)

  Today we released social bookmaking capabilities for there major Microsoft resource sites: MSDN (targeted at developers), TechNet (targeted at IT Professionals), and our own Expression Community site. I checked out the Expression site and made my own "social footprint." I like the social networking direction our online resource team is going. Able to network with other designers who are interested in Expression and exchange learning experience is important, especially for a new community like this. However, we need community participation to make this work, so hope to see you at Expression Social! Here's a video explaining the social booking site ...
• 09.03.08
  My slides from Tech.Ed Oz - WEB311Designing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences With Expression Studio Expression, Silverlight, Sydney, TechEd | (0)

  Here are the slides from my second talk at Tech.Ed Australia: Web311 Designing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences With Expression Studio View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: expression studio;) Unfortunately you don't get to see the demos, which were the bulk of the presentation, where I walked through the basic steps of building the Tech.Ed RFID visualisation. I'll put together a webcast when I get a chance.
• 08.22.08
  Expression, Silverlight, User Experience and Web Futures - my 2.5 sessions at Tech.Ed Oz Expression, Silverlight, Sydney, TechEd, Usability, User Experience | (0)

  Here are the details for my sessions at Tech.Ed Australia: My Breakout Sessions The art and science behind creating a great user experience ARC301 03/09/2008 12:00-13:15 A great user experience means more than drop shadows and rounded corners. It might end with placing elements on a screen, but user experience starts much further upstream, maybe even before requirements! In this presentation we’ll discuss the elements of user experience and how to apply them. We will talk about the role user experience design plays - not just in delivering successful ...
• 08.17.08
  Silverlight/Expression trainer wanted for Sydney Expression, Silverlight, Sydney | (0)

  Pandy from Alpha Computer Consultants tells me they are looking for a contract trainer in Expression and Silverlight: “Silverlight-Expression developer required for contract training position with Australia’s leading Publishing Training Provider Alpha Computer Consultants, for their Sydney CBD training centre. Please contact Pandy Dimitrios pandyd@alphacc.com.au or 9299 4570”
• 07.15.08
  Expression Resource Expression, Resource | (0)

  Lately, I received several requests from both designers and UX professors about training on Expression Studio, which can help them jump start with the tools. There are so many different online training out there, so it's hard to figure out where to get started. I've looked through the training focusing on Expression and created the training list below ordered by learning progress. Hope you find them useful! Before learning about the tools, you may want to watch the following webcast, which captures the essence of Expression Studio - the seamless design workflow and the strong support for designer-developer collaboration. ...
• 06.18.08
  Silverlight and Expression Resources on the web Expression, Silverlight, Training, Uncategorized | (0)

  I’ll admit, I can’t take credit for pulling this together - Arturo Toledo, one of our great Technical Product Managers (he’s also an awesome guy), did and I wanted to share it with you, our loyal reader(s). Silverlight · To learn more about Silverlight visit the Silverlight Community site. This site includes tons of tutorials, videos, getting started information, samples and a showcase where you can see the latest sites created with Silverlight · One of the best online resources is the library of videos from the latest MIX event in Las Vegas. These are many dozens of hours of videos that talk ...
• 06.03.08
  The Expression Professional Subscription is now live Expression | (0)

  In a previous post, I mentioned that Microsoft was bringing out the new Expression Professional Subscription to help designers build great experiences in WPF and Silverlight.  The Subscription is now live and can be purchased. The site can be found here. Again, the benefits of the subscription are many, some of which are listed below: Currently in Subscription The full Expression Studio 2 Suite (Design, Blend, Web, Media and Encoder) Visual Studio Standard Microsoft Office 2007 Standard Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional Windows Vista Business Edition Windows XP Professional Virtual PC Parallels Desktop for Mac and PC Design, development and test licenses Technical Support Incidents Products Announced and will be in the subscription ...
• 05.09.08
  REMIX Change of speaker - "Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio 2" and "How to become a XAML-ready designer with Expression Blend" Expression, auremix08 | (0)

  Unfortunately, Arturo Toledo is no longer able to join us at Remix in Australia. Fortunately, Tim Aidlen from Microsoft in Redmond has made himself available, and will be giving Arturo's two scheduled presentations: "Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio 2" and "How to become a XAML-ready designer with Expression Blend". Thanks Tim for coming out at such short notice! Shanemo

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