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• PDXUX.NET - Next Meeting on July 17th

  Next week the Portland User Experience Group (PDXUX) will be having its July meeting. We have a group from Tektronix who has implemented a pilot project using Expression and will be presenting on their "Expression Experience". This includes, Read More... Posted Monday, July 09, 2007 4:17 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: MS Expressions, PADNUG, Portland User Groups, PDXUX.Net

• Building a Glassy Button in Expression Design

  I've been pinging the designers at work, trying to get them to point me towards some good tutorials and online training. Today one of the guys sent me a link to a tutorial that teaches you how to build a glassy button using Illustrator in 3 easy steps. Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:11 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: MS Expressions

• Miguel de Icaza on Silverlight

  Miguel de Icaza was at MIX07 and has nothing but praise for Silverlight and the whole Expressions suite. Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:30 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: MS Expressions, MIX07, Silverlight

• More Silverlight and Expression

  Tim Sneath is awesome, if you don't read his blog , you should. You really, really should. He's another guy I need to meet up with at MIX and get his autograph or something. I remember last year when Filipe Fortes quit the Avalon team and recommended Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:41 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: MS Expressions, Silverlight, PDXUX.Net

• MS Expression Products to be included in MSDN

  If you haven't already heard , both Expression Web and Blend will be including in your MSDN subscription . But what about Expression Design? Soma says it falls outside the scope of MSDN. Good thing I'll be getting a free copy of Expression Studio Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:39 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Web Development, MS Expressions, MIX07

• Interesting Article on Valid Markup (XHTML)

  I read a really good article today by Ethan Marcotte . We can all agree that the realities of the web make it hard to build a standards-compliant site. Once the client’s CMS, outdated WYSIWYG editors, and third-party advertising code have finished Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:56 AM by kelly | 1 Comments Filed under: Web Development, Pop Art, Web 2.0, MS Expressions

• What (again) is MS Expression?

  We’ve been having this discussion for the last year, and yesterday a co-worker asked what is it? what is its purpose? what is Microsoft trying to do with it? I saw this article linked from the MIX07 website ( http://visitmix.com ). Here is the summary Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:53 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: MS Expressions, MIX07

• Paint.NET

  The next major version of Paint.NET (3.0) will be available sometime in February 2007 (higher likelihood of shipping on time than Windows Vista—according to Allchin ). You can get the just-released alpha build now. For those who are wary of E xpressions Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:26 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Tools, MS Expressions