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  Looking For .Net Consulting Work in New Jersey

  If you are one of my regular readers, you know that I’m a senior .Net consultant out of New Jersey, and don’t do the traveling thing. I’m sort of in between career plateaus, and trying to migrate from the 40 hours a week at one client Read More... Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 9:36 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Expression Interactive Design (aka Sparkle) CTP Review

  Microsoft recently release the first public beta of their Expression Interactive Design tool (aka Sparkle), and I finally can get a chance to play with it and publicly talk about it. The most important thing to remember with this tool is that it is not Read More... Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:48 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Most Anticipated PDC 2005 Session

  I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow). The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:28 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Microsoft Codename Acrylic Does Not Do It For Me

  First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic . I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:39 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Adobe To Acquire Macromedia

  Hmm, just heard about this news . Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML? Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 8:37 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

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  80% of Windows Developers Will Not Understand XAML

  With the announcement the end of last week that Microsoft is decoupling Avalon from Longhorn and will make it backward compatible with WinXP and Win2k3 Server, I’m sure there are some out there that wonder what my take on it. First off, let’s Read More... Posted Monday, August 30, 2004 10:37 AM by donxml | 6 Comments

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  Kurt Cagle Has a Real Blog Now

  Kurt Cagle dropped out of site for a while, but is back, and now has a real blog on BlogSpot , along with an Atom feed (after I prodded him to turn it on). He will be blogging from the SVG Open conference in Japan, and will be presenting (and blogging, Read More... Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:38 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  W3C Compound Documents Workshop Position Papers Available

  The position papers for The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents are now available for you viewing pleasure. I love this topic (rendering multi-namespace documents), but I can not attend this workshop, but I will be watching it closely. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:59 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents

  The W3C is sponsoring a workshop on Web Apps and Compound Docs in San Jose, June 1st & 2nd. From the web site: Position papers submitted for this workshop topic should address at least some of the following questions: What functionality is needed Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:01 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Welcome Kevin Lindsey to the World of RSS

  Kevin Lindsey has had a blog for some time now, but has recently seen the beauty that is RSS. What, you don’t know who Kevin is? Well, he was one of the main forces behind the SharpVectors project , and has been developing very cool SVG tutorials Read More... Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 12:47 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  Avalon Developers – Meet Mordy Golding

  Until recently Mordy Golding was the Program Manager for Adobe Illustrator, but has recently left the company and is now back on the East Coast working as an independent consultant. Since most of us Avalon developers are using Illustrator to create our Read More... Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 6:48 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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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

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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

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  SPARK – And I Don’t Mean Sparkle

  Some of the SVG evangelists have put together a SVG Programmers’ Application Resource Kit (aka SPARK) website . It has some pretty cool SVG programming examples, and is meant to promote “programming” with SVG. If you hit the SVG version of the site (requires Read More... Posted Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:06 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  Cool Graphic Artist/Coder/Hacker

  I’ve known about the the ForgetFoo and his side project GotFoo websites for a while, but haven’t mentioned them on my blog. It seems as though he creates all his own graphics, and has a bunch of cool javascript tricks to make his sites very unique. The Read More... Posted Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:48 AM by donxml | 5 Comments

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