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Ever since Long Zheng pointed out an alternate start screen for Windows Phone 7 I've been convinced that the older layout was the better layout.

A couple of people have noticed that the Facebook Developer Toolkit doesn't work on the current release of Windows Phone 7.

I know I said I was done trying to recreate the Pivot control, but I'm happy to be able to share a standalone Pivot control that I've been working on.

This is part 3 - the final part - of how to create a Pivot style application for Windows Phone 7.

I got some feedback after part 1 and part 2 of how to create a Pivot style for your Windows Phone 7 application - what I had created had a few issues.

Note: It has been noted that this demo and code more closely follow how to create a Panorama style application than a Pivot style application.

Note: It has been noted that this screencast and part 2 more closely follow how to create a Panorama style application than a Pivot style application.

During the Windows Phone UI and Design Language session at Mix, the presenters talked about the Metro styled icons, and how applications of similar type should...

I just got back from 5 days in Vegas for Mix 2010 (where I was a top 5 tweeter).

I've had the chance over the last month or two to play with Silverlight on the Nokia platform.

A month or so ago I submitted my talk Thinking Outside the Battleship Gray Box for consideration at this year's CodeStock in Knoxville, TN.

I am very lucky to say that I'll be at Mix 2010 next week.

Last week I got the opportunity to present at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup.

Vote for 'Old School Meets New School' for Mix 10k!

If you're into Silverlight or WPF, then you've undoubtedly heard the nonstop clamoring over Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - aka Prism....

Developing Without Limitations The voting for the Open Call entries for Mix 2010 sessions is now open, and I would love to have your vote!

It's been a little less than 2 months since My Health Info launched on MSN.

I haven't written a grab bag in a while, so here is a rather impromptu set of tips from lessons learned in developing full-time in Silverlight the last several...

It's been almost a month since I announced ImageWind.net, my current personal Silverlight project.

One of the things I wanted in ImageWind.Net before releasing it in beta was some basic analytics baked in.

At the Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter a few months ago myself and Mason Brown did a talk 'Lighting Up the UI'.

I'm very happy to say that tonight I'm making public my current side project, ImageWind.Net.

The Facebook port of Matchingo has now been committed to the repository on CodePlex.

Matchingo (which was released almost 5 months ago - gasp!)

I'm very happy to say that I will be presenting at an upcoming Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter on August 22nd in Atlanta at Microsoft's office.

Recently I was talking to a friend about Visual Studio 2010 - specifically about changes we were hoping to see.

In my last blog entry I talked about how the new Bitmap API in Silverlight 3 gives you the ability to render controls to a WriteableBitmap, I also mentioned...

One of the new features in Silverlight 3 (released on Friday) is the Bitmap API which provides the ability to render UIElements to a bitmap and provides direct...

I've been doing a bit of work at the new job on some custom panels relative to our project.

This was my first week at a new gig as a full time Silverlight developer.

Today is my last day at my current job - it is the end of another chapter of my career.

For those who aren't aware, a great resource for Silverlight designers launched a few weeks ago named Silverzine.

For those that don't know, I have been a Winforms dev since about 2001.

The initial code drop of Matchingo is now available on CodePlex at matchingo.codeplex.com.

I'm very proud to say that Matchingo is one of the 16 finalists in Microsoft's Server Quest Contest.

I am very pleased to announce the launch of Matchingo.com.

For those who are concerned, I have not fallen off the map - in fact I've been busting butt the last 2-3 months on a project which I will be announcing...

A simple, but hopefully decent, StatusBar example in WPF/XAML Searching for information on new(er) technology can be pretty interesting.

Every once in a while I'll get an idea for something I wish I had time to create.

I wrote the following blog entry for my company's intranet a few months back and had been meaning to share it publicly.

I just spent a few minutes trying to figure out an odd error I was having in trying to add Kevin's WPF Bag-o-Tricks to my MemoryGame project.

I am slowly but surely working on a new project called Memory Game.

So I am working on a little side project - which hopefully I'll present in the coming month - and I wanted to make my window fill something more fancy than a...

Since I last posted I have still been relatively hard at work learning a variety of things.

A month or so ago before I got too far into my WPF research I wanted to figure out how the performance of WPF compared to - say a 486DX 33mhz from 12-13 years...

A few weeks ago I mocked up a UI and tried to create it.

I'm still playing with WPF pretty routinely.

If you've been following Nerd Plus Art (which you should be doing) you'll notice a few recent blog posts of interest.

Last time we covered breaking our theming out into an external file, and how to style all instances of a given UI element.

So I've been under the weather (or at least that is one of my excuses), so I don't have the next part of my WPF series ready to post yet, but I do have a...