By Don Burnett The May 2008 Michigan Interactive Designers Coffee meeting is being postponed so we can take a two day field trip to RIA Palooza in Chicago.. You ask what RIA Palooza is..??? http://www.riapalooza.com/index.htm The Event (In the "Palooza" spirit, It's free to attend): Friday...

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by Don Burnett Worldwide Telescope Ships beta.. Wow is this incredible, it not only gives you tours and explores the universe in 3D, but it also lets you see 2D images from all the great telescopes of the world, so whether you are exploring the earth or nearby planets, or M81 and M82 galaxies, or learning...

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According to C-NET Blogs : "Some users of Windows Vista Media Center say they were blocked from recording NBC Universal TV shows American Gladiator and Medium on Monday night..." "Restrictions set by the broadcaster and/or originator prohibit recording of this program," the error...

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Over at CCarper's Business of Silverlight Blog I learned: "The Interactive Advertising Bureau ( IAB ) on Monday announced the release of “Digital Video In-Stream Ad Format & Best Practices Guidelines" for Digital Video Advertising. The IAB and it's sub group the Digital Video Committee...

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Today the New York Times Reader for the Mac was announced . It is a Microsoft Silverlight application, what makes it siginificant is that the reader is one of the first mainstream RIA applications developed using Silverlight to target a "NON-WINDOWS" computing platform. A beta version of Times...

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By Don Burnett The new service pack (.Net version 3.5 SP1) offers a great number of new controls including a new web browser control. For a long time it's been possible to add browser HTML content to WPF through either the frame control or instantiating a Winforms web browser control. The only problem...

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If you missed my presentation at Western Michigan's Day of Dot Net or wanted a copy of it, here it is. It's quite long but I think it gives adequate coverage to the subject. Hope you like.. Attachments: PresentationPart2.pdf , PresentationPart2.xps...

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By Don Burnett (Warning Opinion Piece, from the Bully Pulpit..) How many of you out there blog, and publish to the Web using Windows Live Writer? I think it's really lame that they don't include Silverlight Streaming as a standard feature on Windows Live Writer.. It' time to go out and show some community...

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Winforms Developers Rejoice! Silverlight Developers Rejoice.. The next version of WPF is here, and there is now NO REASON not to use WPF instead of Winforms, and Silverlight 2.0 developers can rejoice because WPF has attained parity with Silverlight controls and capabilities. From Fai's Blog: "Microsoft...

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Event: Michigan Interactive Designers Coding and Coffee Meeting Date: Saturday May 31, 2008 Time: 11am to 2pm Location: Grand Traverse Pie Company (Ann Arbor Location, I-94 and Zeeb Road Exit) Meeting Agenda: THIS WILL BE A HUGE MEETING, with really exciting NEW DEVELOPMENTS profiled, which maybe the...

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