Justin Angel (who is undoubtedly a Silverlight Rock Star) decided to stir things up a bit on Twitter the other night. I was compelled to echo Ward Bell’s response that value converters can play legitimate role in the UI. Justin asked me to defend my position; a reasonable request. Now, I know...
We need to contract a designer for our current project. I’m looking for one of those mythical beasts that has: some real graphics design skill understands (or at least cares about) usability works with Silverlight There is also a strong preference for someone in the NYC/NJ area. If you are interested...
One little usability bit that I picked up from many of the Web 2.0 apps (in particular 37signals apps), is displaying date and times in a “how long since” format. Take a look at the community page on Silver Arcade. I wanted to display when a user became a member of the community. Instead of displaying...
We’ve just started a new Silverlight project and since our the UI guy is not on site with us, I ended up with the task of producing screen mockups. Some interest was expressed in using Balsamiq Mockups , and this seemed like a good time to really take it for a test drive. What does it do? Balsamiq...
This one is easy on the brain. Some quick WPF lovin’ 101. I need to display the current date, and have it formatted like this: Friday, March 13, 2009 In my opinion, this is purely a matter for the view and so I’m handling it entirely in the xaml. Here’s the markup: <TextBlock Text="{Binding Source...