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gesturecons visual language for multi touch
I work with some amazing people, one of which is Ryan Lee . He is a great user experience designer here at Cynergy , y...
Help Improve the Flash Platform!
The next beta releases of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 are inching closer, and now it is time for us to help Adobe ensu...
MIX 2010 Zune HD app
We're starting to get pretty excited over here about MIX and SXSW . We will have a presence at both, but I have to ...
Flash, Flex & Native 3D Transformations
Back with the release of Flash Player 10 last summer (yes, it's been that long), Adobe introduced native 3D transformati...
Silverlight 4 FileSystemWatcher ... no strings attached
In my last post I showed how to implement a bridge service using the new net.tcp binding in order to implement somethi...
Silverlight 4 breaking the com sandbox to create a file watcher ...
Since Silverlight 4's release I have become quire enamored with the elevated privileges out of browser functionality. ...
webcam demo on channel 9
At PDC 09 I was able to spend some time with Pete Brown to talk about our Star Trek Surface Application but also som...
star trek surface application on channel 9
At PDC 09 Rick and Myself were lucky enough to meet with Pete Brown to talk about a recent surface application. We al...
Silverlight 4 and command line execution
In my last post on out of browser we showed how easy and powerful it is , all be it a bit of a step back in the developm...
Tim Sneath Interview on Silverlight 4 and WPF
I was lucky enough at PDC 09 to run into (dr) Tim Sneath and ask him about WPF and the Silverlight continuum in the ti...
Silverlight 4 dials in skype
One of the pains in silverlight 3 out of browser was the strict sandbox that was put in place. Although well meaning,...
Join the Cynergy Team!
If you’re a Flex developer looking to take your game to the next level, Cynergy would really like to talk to you.
Silverlight 4 Drag from desktop
One of the exciting announcements made at pdc 09 was that silverlight 4 will support drag and drop from the desktop to b...
Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support
I'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WP...
AIR 2.0 Multitouch Examples
Now that the AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 betas are out and available for the public on Adobe Labs , I just wanted...
The Secret Behind the Page Flip Technique
Two Flavors of Page Flip The Page Flip technique has been around for several years in Flash. However, not all implemen...
Bypassing 16769025 pixel limit in FP 10
If you have ever tried to work with large images in Adobe Flex or Adobe Flash, you've likely run into this issue. Back...
Cynergy MAX Presentations Live. Enjoy!
We just got the Cynergy presentation videos back from Adobe MAX and I wanted to share them with you. We gave three pre...
MAX Recap: Multi-Touch Development with Flex
Another great Adobe MAX event has come and gone, and I am excited to share the content from my presentation this year.
Cynergy & Kevin Lynch Demo First Multi-Touch AIR App at MAX 2009 ...
When someone asks me what we do at Cynergy, I will often simply say, "Our passion is changing the way we all experi...
Getting Sticky Eyeballs
Incredible software user experiences will simply sell more software. We’ve believed this for a very long time, and it g...
Cynergy Goes To The MAX
Our passion at Cynergy is fundamentally changing the way we all experience and interact with software. That, in and of ...
Designer / developer misconceptions podcast
A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Erik Mork from the Sparkling Client podcast for some te...
Rendering Vector Fields in Silverlight
Silverlight Advanced Rendering Techniques: Part 3 [ Download VectorFieldProject.zip ] Now that we have explor...
sketching on a screen slides
Had a great time talking at the CMAP user group on sketch flow tonight. This was one of my first demo heavy presentat...
Advanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmaps
Silverlight Advanced Rendering Techniques: Part 2 In the first part of this series on advanced rendering techniqu...
sketchflow user group talk
On 9/1/09 I will be speaking at the CMAP user group on sketchflow. I'm really excited to do this talk which will use ...
Fluid Dynamics in Silverlight
It's been crazy busy here at Cynergy so I haven't written much in a while. But after a few months of Microsoft Surface w...
The power of "States" in Blend 3
States have be vastly improved in Blend 3, the problem is not many people know about these enhancements. I want to make ...
Silverlight Out of Browser deep dive
Continuing on the Silverlight 3 new feature series, one of the features that has gotten the biggest buzz in the press bu...
Silverlight & Blend 3 Sample Data
Well as of July 10 Silverlight 3 is out. Over the next several weeks I will be putting together blog entries on my favo...
watching live smooth streaming in action
In my last entry I posted source to an adaptive streaming silverlight player. I also pointed out this great post ...
Smooth streaming source
this is a short one. A couple days ago I needed to create an adaptive streaming player. If you don't know what adapt...
Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo)
I knocked up a demo video of why i think Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 are gonna change the way we build apps. See why I luv...
Cynergy.Congress - Flex 4 & Catalyst in the Wild
In case you may have missed Dave Wolf's post earlier today, Dave announced the release of Cynergy.Congress , a direct...
Cynergy Publicly Releases First Ever Flex4 + Catalyst Application:...
I am very excited to continue Cynergy’s tradition of pushing the limits of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and designin...
RIA in the city
I will be in NYC this week for Internet Week . It's just like fashion week, only.... minus the fashion and plus the we...
Excerpt: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing API
Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 25: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing AP...
Excerpt: Intro to MVC Frameworks
An excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 6hapter 60: Intro to MVC Frameworks.
Excerpt: Modular Application Development
Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 66: Modular Application Development.
Excerpt: Application Performance Strategies
Here's an excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 67: Application Performance Strategies.
Cynergy.Cruises at TechEd 09
Last week we I had the honor or presenting with the Surface team during Tech.Ed about the announcement of Microsoft S...
Your App Starts Here: Cynergy Announces New Corporate Web Site ...
Three months. Countless meetings. Camera crews. Designers. Developers. Creativity, knowledge and boundless passion....
CoverFlow – built using Silverlight 3's 'Projection'...
Let me show you how I would go abouts creating a coverflow like experience using the new Silverlight 3 projection featur...
Experimenting With The New Flex 4 Animation/Effects Framework ...
The new Flex 4 Animation/Effects framework certainly looks to be promising. Here's a quick example showing how to use u...
