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Dear Slovenian developers and UI enthusiasts, mark your calendars for 8th of November 2011 as that’s the day we’re launching a new user group targeting the UI/UX professionals. SIUX – Slovenian UX User Group – a sister user group (or a Siamese twin group as we fondly call it ) of now years-running SLODUG...
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Pripete označbe: Software, Community, Silverlight, WPF, Tech, User Experience, general, WP7, Talks, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro
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My latest Windows Phone application was published to the marketplace a few days ago: MapSnapper is a simple utility application that utilizes static Bing maps feature to capture a favorite piece of Earth with your Windows Phone. In its essence, the application lets you navigate a map of the world, using...
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The annual local Microsoft conference, NT Konferenca 2011 , is starting next week in Portorož, Slovenia. I’ll be pretty busy this year – you'll find me in the following talks: Monday morning , Europa D: Building application with NUI (Natural User Interfaces). I’ll be giving a talk on building NUI...
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Today’s brief IM conversation about twedge reminded me about this project I put together in the last minute for a local conference last May. Twedge is a simple twitter widget, build with Silverlight 4. You can specify some colors, time interval and search terms for displaying tweets through the...
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Thought I’d give this one a try – 5 posts that were accessed by visitors of my blog the most and were posted in 2010: 1. Add version 4 components to your Silverlight 3 application with MEF : I wrote about using MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to import and offer additional capabilities to users...
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One of the “annoyances” with Silverlight (and similar browser plugins) is with watching a video in a multi-monitor set up – you would pop out your Silverlight video player to full screen on one monitor and continue working on your other monitor – which would cause your video player to return to its normal...
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It’s been a while since Silverlight 4 was released by Microsoft and while we’re patiently waiting for a few other books to be released, I would definitely recommend the "Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Service Cookbook” by Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx. It’s not an advanced book on Silverlight,...
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Another NTK has ended, and in my opinion, this year’s conference was one of the greatest and most enjoyable for the past few years. This is a list of sessions I had (alone or with co-speakers), along with the PowerPoint slide decks (all in Slovenian Language): Silverlight and MEF [The Photo Gallery application...
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This year’s NT Konferenca is starting next week! Organized by local Microsoft, it will be held (for the 15th year in a row!) in beautiful Portoroz (Slovenia), that’s now become a traditional venue for this event. Over 130 sessions, labs and seminars will be delivered by over 130 speakers in only four...
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SilverlightShow.net is running a SilverlightShow Eco Contest ! Write a Silverlight -based application that helps support and promote environment-friendly activities, and you can win great prizes, including a trip to MIX10 event in Las Vegas (MIX10 pass, 3-night hotel stay at Mandalay Bay Hotel and 1...
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I broke most of the external referrals to my blog posts when moving to a new blog engine, so why not take this opportunity to change my blog’s address as well? From now on, the official address of this blog is http://tozon.info/blog/ The old address will remain functional and I will do my best to catch...
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I was thinking about switching this blog’s engine for some time now, mainly because I was stuck with Community Server 2007 (.NET 1.1!), not playing along with any further upgrades. Too much custom actions and customization, I guess. Meanwhile, Community Server went mainstream and developed into a really...
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I’m sure Telligent will fully enable Silverlight parts into future Community Server releases, but until then, a couple of tricks are needed to make Silverlight play well with CS. The following points were made with Community Server 2008.5 release. Include Silverlight apps in posts The common way to include...
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The following are the links to the materials I used on my talks on this year's NTK08 conference : What's new in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5? PowerPoint Code/Demo Solution [C#] Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 [2+hr Hands-On-Lab] Manual SQL Server part [presented by Matija Lah ,...
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While SLODUG web site is waiting for its facelift, all Facebook users are kindly invited to join SLODUG group over there. And if you're not familiar with the Facebook yet - it's fun. There's all sorts of stuff going on, you can do craziest things possible, and all your friends are invited...