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December 2003 - Posts

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  Excellent Real World SVG Example

  This comes by way of Ray Schraff (from www.onbase.com ), and was posted on Bill Trippe’s Ideas in Technology and Publishing blog back in November . It seems that The Conservation Fund’s site has a really cool animated SVG map of the battle of Antietam Read More... Posted Monday, December 29, 2003 7:16 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: SVG
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  NJ/NYC Bloggers Dinner/Meeting 12/18

  I know this is short notice, but if anyone in the NJ/NYC area wants to get together with a bunch of other .Net bloggers, we are meeting up at the NYC .Net meeting tomorrow 12/18. I had planned on hooking up with Sean Gerety and some of his coworkers this Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2003 11:29 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Relative Coordinates in Path Declarations and Animation

  Joe Beda had asked for some of my thoughts on the importance of relative coordinates in declaring path segments and I started to create a long article describing the pro and cons of using relative coordinates, and explaining the difference between the Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:58 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon)
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  Two New XAML Tools For the Price of One

  Working with Chris Sells on a project has certain “benefits” associated with it, and one of the big ones is his ability to find the right person in Microsoft that can help solve a problem. When he asked for a batch version of the Svg2Xaml tool, I said Read More... Posted Sunday, December 14, 2003 4:27 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  My First Declarative Programming Experience – JCL

  While shoveling out from the northeaster this weekend a weird thought struck me (I guess it was the lack of Oxygen to the brain), my first declarative language (and probably my first markup language) was the IBM mainframe’s JCL ( Job Control Language Read More... Posted Monday, December 08, 2003 11:41 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: XML
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  Cool Raster to Vector Conversion Tool

  With all the XAML-GUI development going on I forgot to mention a cool tool that I use to convert rastered images to vector called VectorEye . It can convert bmp, jpeg, png, and tiff files to SVG, PS or EPS. Converting raster to vector is more of an art Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:00 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, Adobe Illustrator
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  Object Constraint Language

  Geez, I don’t know why I haven’t bumped into this before, but while doing some research on Test Driven Development for my current client, I ran across the Object Constraint Language . [corrected his name from Josh to Jason. doh!] Jason Gorman has released Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:28 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: .Net