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November PDXUX.Net Meeting: "Silverlight 2 Launch Party"Sponsored by WHAT: November PDXUX.Net Meeting WHEN: Tuesday 11/11/2008 6:30 p.m. Pizza Dinner (by Microsoft) 7:00 p.m. Presentation WHERE: North (Map) 1515 NW 19th Ave Portland, OR 97209 WHO: Tim Heuer, Jason Mauer, Erik Mork, Kelly White, and others. Tim Heuer is a product ...

Last year there was an episode of Red vs. Blue done to promote the Halo 3 Beta (watch the video). In it, Sarge tells the "lunatics" that if they don't quiet down he'll drop a "tear gas grenade" on them. Immediately one fanboy concludes that they'll be getting "tear gas grenades" and exclaims that he ...

September PDXUX.Net Meeting: "Silverlight Deep Zooming"Sponsored by WHAT: September PDXUX.Net Meeting WHEN: Tuesday 09/16/2008 6:30 p.m. Pizza (by Silvertail Software) 7:00 p.m. Presentation WHERE: Robert Half Technology KOIN Center (Map) 222 SW Columbia Street Portland, OR 97201 WHO: Kelly White Kelly is an enthusiastic startup ...

Have you been watching the Democratic National Convention?  Did you watch Michelle Obama speak?  How about Hilary Clinton?  Bill Clinton?  Joe Biden?  Al Gore?  Barack Obama?  Did you watch the entire speeches or just catch the sound bites on the 10:00 news?  Don't worry if you missed it, you can watch ...

It's amazing how the summer heat takes so much out of everyone's time and energy.  Join us tomorrow evening to hear Erik Mork talk about the new Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and see how you can get started enhancing your web applications with this new technology. --Kelly   WHAT: July PDXUX.Net Meeting WHEN: Tuesday 07/15/2008 6:30 ...

Shortly after I got back from MIX08 I gave a brown-bag presentation at my previous work titled "Silverlight for Agencies."  The presentation was based off my "Silverlight for Designers" talk that I gave at the Boise Code Camp, but modifed to include less how-to examples and more demos to illustrate how Silverlight ...

I thought I'd share a couple emails I sent that I sent around to my managers and coworkers right after attending MIX08. At the time I was working for an interactive marketing agency who is a dotnet shop but does all interactive work in flash. These emails are the approach I was taking. Hopefully you find them useful or can point out ways I ...

I thought I'd share a couple emails I sent that I sent around to my managers and coworkers right after attending MIX08. At the time I was working for an interactive marketing agency who is a dotnet shop but does all interactive work in flash. These emails are the approach I was taking. Hopefully you find them useful or can point out ways I ...

Vista Gadgets are very cool.  They're like these mini-apps that can run in your sidebar and provide you with some pretty cool functionality.  You write them just like you're writing a web page.  You can use Javascript or Silverlight, make calls out to RSS feeds or web services, and provide some pretty cool ...

Erik Mork has just launched a new Podcast called Sparkling Client which focuses on Silverlight and other RIA Technology. The site for the podcast can be found at http://www.sparklingclient.com/. The first two episodes are already up, with much more promising content sure to be released in the immediate future. Be sure to check this out and ...