I had the chance to demo our Silverlight application at Microsoft’s virtual CEE Remix event (thanks Dénes!).
It’s a web application for companies with many employees on the move.
Using the system you can track details like position, speed, driving behavior of moving units real-time or with reports. You also have a personal security function, with real-time alerting and messaging.
This solution called DIWICON-M is tracking more than 20 000 units worldwide. If you are interested have a look at it on my company’s website.
I read about the new Gorillaz album this morning. Being a Jamie Hewlett fan and watching the YouTube clips it had me hooked in a whim.
On the official site it turned out that it’s a much richer act than just an album as it comes with an opera and a short film also.
So if you love animation, progressive music, Chinese culture and well.. opera, see you in London at the evening show on the 22nd of November!
(And you can get the album for 8 EUR without DRM.)
I was upgrading my posted Silverlight projects when I ran into my oldest one.
One and a half year ago Füles was with us in the living room, wagging his tail just like in the animation I was showing to my family.
It was a great thing as he had just recovered from a serious stroke endured last summer.
Since then he passed away but the time we had with him was a true gift.
You can watch the animation titled ‘Sunrise’ here.
Today I toyed around a bit with Photosynth and my Laputa robot form my Japan trip this summer. Check out the results:
Photosynth using the given set of photos (right) automatically creates a panorama-like 3D environment. Moving around you can discover the details of the place pictured by the uploaded images (middle). The coolest feature is unfortunately hidden: pressing the control button Photosynth shows the recognized 3D structure of the place (left). It works unbelievably well.
Imagine this on a mobile device with a GPS, internet connection and real-time. It could be an interesting medium.
It’s a joy to see such a polished Hungarian Silverlight solution as the recently launched site of our 14th century chronicle by Eyedea.
It puts a really good use of Silverlight’s DeepZoom technology by synchronizing audio and text commentary with the pages creating an engaging and authentic experience.
It’s only in Hungarian yet, but I hope there will be an English version.
The Illuminated Chronicle (in Hungarian: Képes Krónika) is a medieval illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the fourteenth century. It represents the international artistic style of the royal courts in the court of Louis the Great.
This little lolcat will show you a cool feature I discovered recently.
Using its ‘Tag’ property you can add metadata to a FrameworkElement (so practically every graphical element Silverlight provides) and read it out in code as a string.
Even better, you can set Tag property in design-time with Expression Blend support!
This is a start of my new project, SilverBites. It’s a series of bite sized video tutorials on Silverlight 2 with a maximum length of 90 seconds.
I’m pretty microphone shy yet, but watch my alterego in the coming parts!
Playing with data binding I had the System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException whenever I ran my app.
It turns out the problem was putting a binding statement into a <Run … /> element. Silverlight supports data binding only on FrameworkElements and the Run class contrary to the Textblock is not a descendant.
