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Updated Mp3tag Sources for Zune 4.0
Monday, October 05, 2009A new Zune release, a new updated set of sources for Mp3tag. The instructions are the same as always: Download the latest Mp3tag Zune Marketplace Sources: ZuneMarketplace.zip Unzip the two .src files into %appdata%\Mp3tag\data\sources Click the Sources button in Mp3tag and you’re ready to rock! Two notes about this update: I renamed the sources to “Zune Marketplace” from just “Marketplace”, mostly to put it at the bottom of the list making it faster to select as well as giving Zune some branding love. Now this change may be a bummer for some, I no longer have a good end-point forFiled under | 0 comments » -
Zune.net Now Using Silverlight 3.0
Tuesday, September 15, 2009One criticism we get as a company is that on the day Silverlight 1.0 was launched we didn’t do a massive refactoring of all Microsoft media-based or media-containing sites to use Silverlight. Since dry humor doesn’t often translate via blog I’m poking some fun at our critics with that statement. Any technology transition takes time, even one we believe strongly in like Silverlight. Given skill sets, market requirements and different time-frames it was never that surprising that the previous Zune.net still used Flash. It just made sense at the time.
Today is a different story though, today we can count one more site as having come into the Silverlight fold, Zune.net. (This is just an excerpt, click the title for the full post)
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Things I Heart About the Zune 4.0 Software
Tuesday, September 15, 2009The next generation of Zune is here and as someone that has been fortunate enough to play with both the new software and a ZuneHD I wanted to share some of my favorite things in the new software. More details on the ZuneHD itself to come, as while I wrote this post the software features kept piling up so I’ll save the hardware focused one for tomorrow. Quickplay This is the new landing page when you first open the software and you’re instantly given a rich, media-centric view that shows new items, your most recently listened to items as wellFiled under | 2 comments » -
Huh, Where Am I? (Redirecting enginefour to shawnoster)
Thursday, September 10, 2009If you were expecting enginefour.com and are now on shawnoster.com don’t worry, it’s all part of my mad plan. Mad as in these little things really shouldn’t take as long as they do sometimes.
I’m redirecting all my old enginefour.com blog traffic over to shawnoster.com (which is where you should now be). This is also a sneaky way to make sure all my old slugs (the bit after the domain name that uniquely identifies each post) have a corresponding one on my new site.
I created a “Hey I’m moving” post over there that will now redirect to *this* post here if all the regex’s line up :) Back to our regularly scheduled broadcast.
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Silverlight TreeView Connecting Lines And Blend 3 Support for HierarchicalDataTemplates
Tuesday, August 25, 2009Showing off Blend 3's support for sample data, converting it into hierarchical data, editing the HierarchicalDataTemplate AND adding connecting lines to the Silverlight TreeView using the Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release's TreeViewExtensions. A lot of goodness packed into one medium sized blog post, with pretty pictures.
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Trying Out Oxite
Wednesday, August 19, 2009Been quite on my blog lately and of all reasons it was because I just wasn’t happy with my old theme. Lame I know yet if I’m not excited about how it looks then I’m not really compelled to write. So I went searching for a cool theme for my old blog engine BlogEngine.NET and while a few grabbed me they all had some pretty basic flaws. I believe using bulleted lists, quotes, proper headings, etc. help in the digestion of information and if the formatting for those items are off then a simple post can look like a train wreck, at least to my eyes.
Long story short I keep bumping up against the Oxite “theme” and decided the best way to get that theme was to switch to Oxite as my engine. I’ve been super busy lately with all sorts of ninja projects and so every time I hit a roadblock in installing Oxite on GoDaddy I’d stop and move onto real work.
Well, today I finally got it all working and I can start flooding my blog with new posts once again. The irony being of course that most people just use a feed reader (FeedDemon being my favorite) to read blog entries so all of that deep theme searching was probably in vain.
I want to note that nothing is wrong with BlogEngine.NET and if I had spent as much time fixing the CSS of the themes I liked as I did installing Oxite then I’d still be using it. I’m also addicted to updates and while BlogEngine.NET development hasn’t exactly stalled things over there seem a bit stale. For example the official release is 1.5 yet the home page still calls it a RC.
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Your Inner Remembrance One
Wednesday, June 17, 2009Part of my personal daily rounds is catching up on all the gaming news which means hitting up Engadget and Joystiq. I was reading a recent tidbit about how new XBox 360’s are starting to show up with both the Jasper motherboard and 512MB of internal memory, something some of you may or may not be as excited about as I am. The part that really caught my eye though was when I did a Bing search for “xbox jasper”, in an effort to catch up on my XBox motherboard goodness, and stumbled across the exact same Engadget article on -
MIX ‘09 & The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release
Sunday, March 22, 2009It has been an action packed last week, a lot getting announced, released and talked about. What happened? MIX ‘09 MIX09 was awesome, first because it was the first one I’ve ever been able to attend and second because of all the great announcements and energy of the people. I met great people, had amazing conversations and the energy was so high that I didn’t even notice that I lived off of Red Bull and a couple of hours a sleep a night. No, the Adobe guy and I didn’t fight as people kept asking me :). We had aFiled under | 7 comments » -
MVP Summit Talk: Silverlight Toolkit: Past, Present & Future
Tuesday, March 03, 2009Today I’m giving a talk at Microsoft’s 2009 MVP Global Summit here on campus. The title of the talk is “Silverlight Toolkit: Past, Present & Future” and I’ll be talking a little bit about where the Silverlight Toolkit came from, what’s going on with it right now and what we’re planning in future versions. Pretty self-explanatory actually :) I’m done a few dry-runs and once it came out at 30 minutes, the next at an hour and 15 minutes so I’m hoping I’ll find a nice average and nail the 45 minute window I have. We’ve done a lot withFiled under | 0 comments » -
Adding Silverlight Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio and Blend Toolbox
Wednesday, February 04, 2009Now that title is a mouth-full. I’ve seen a few questions in the Silverlight.net forums asking how to get the Silverlight Toolkit controls into the toolbox/asset library of Visual Studio 2008 and/or Expression Blend 2. There are a bunch of great posts scattered among the tubes on how to do this but I wanted to explain both Visual Studio 2008 and Blend 2 in one post. Plus it’ll segue nicely into an upcoming post :) Download the Silverlight Toolkit Download the latest release of the Silverlight Toolkit (December 2008 as of this post). Unzip to a folder of your liking
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