Category Archives: UI

Yet Another Podcast #74–Adam Kinney–Windows 8 and JavaScript and HTML5

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Adam Kinney, Independent Design Developer and former Microsoft Evangelist and Jon Galloway, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, about programming for Windows 8 using JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5.   Adam’s Blog Adam on Twitter Jon’s Blog Jon on Twitter Win 8 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blend, Essentials, JavaScript, Languages, Metro, Observations, Podcast, UI, Visual Studio, Windows 8, WinRT | Tagged | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #57–Kendo UI

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

I spoke with Burke Holland, Kendo UI Evangelist, and Todd Anglin, VP of HTML5 Tools for Telerik about their new platform for creating HTML5/JQuery applications: Kendo UI. http://twitter.com/toddanglin http://twitter.com/burkeholland HTML5 Playground Less To CSS Generator PhoneGap – Build Native Mobile … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Tools and Utilities, UI | Tagged | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with David Platt, author of Why Software Sucks about software design, both good and bad David’s Web Site   Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

Posted in Books, Essentials, Observations, Opinion, UI | Tagged | 4 Comments

Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial I don’t just mean you don’t pay for the code, or the control, I mean we’re talking about 2 minutes of effort.  No joke. Step 1 is to download the November Windows Phone Toolkit and install it

Posted in Animation, Essentials, Mango, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Toolkit, UI, WindowsPhone | Tagged | 5 Comments

The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial Last year Jon Galloway and I launched the Full Stack experiment,in which we video-documented the creation of a nontrivial application. Today we begin the second phase of this experiment, building a new application that will have implementations … Continue reading →

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Adding Icons to the DateTime Picker

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial If you just add a DateTime Picker (from the Windows Phone Toolkit) to your application, it will work but its icons will be very unsatisfactory – just a pair of X’s.  To get the proper icons, follow … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, Mango, Mini-Tutorial, UI | Tagged | 5 Comments