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Visual Studio 11 Design Changes – What, Really?

The Visual Studio Teamhas bloggedabout the "broad reaching experience improvements" in Visual Studio and thecomments sectionis exploding.The topics that generate the most negative reactions are:1. Reduction of colors of the "chrome" of the...

User Group Tour 2012 zum Thema User Interfaces

By WeigeltRo

Meine kleineUser Group Tour im letzten Sommerunter dem Motto "UI/UX f\xfcr Entwickler und andere Nicht-Designer" hat mir viel Spa\xdf gemacht \u2013 so viel Spa\xdf, dass auch auch dieses Jahr wieder unterwegs sein werde.Die Planung dazu ist noch...

Emaroo 1.2.1 Released

By WeigeltRo

Emaroo is a free utility for browsing most recently used (MRU) file lists ofmultiple applications. Quickly open files, jump to their folder in Windows Explorer, copy their path - all with just a few keystrokes or mouse clicks.This bugfix release has been sitting...

Looking Back at BUILD

By WeigeltRo

BUILD, the "everything is secret", "no information until September" conference is over and I'm back at home. Time for a personal look back.The AnnouncementsOthers have already done the job of writing a full roundup (hereis one of the...

Rückblick: UI/UX für Entwickler in Berlin, Leipzig und Dresden

By WeigeltRo

Gestern Abend fand nach Stationen inBerlinundLeipzigbei der.NET User Group Dresdender Abschluss meiner kleinen User Group Tour zum Thema "UI/UX f\xfcr Entwickler und andere Nicht-Designer" statt.An dieser Stelle besonderen Dank anLars Kellervom INETA...

dotnet Cologne 2011: Resttickets verfügbar!

By WeigeltRo

Die dotnet Cologne 2011 ist eigentlich schon seit Anfang des Monats ausgebucht. Andererseits ist es bei mehr als 300 Anmeldungen nur nat\xfcrlich, dass manche Interessenten aus dem einen oder anderen Grund doch nicht an der Veranstaltung teilnehmen k\xf6nnen...

Live Coding in Presentations – Don’t Waste my Time!

By WeigeltRo

Over the years I have grown very sceptical of the "fewer slides, more demos" kind of presentations. I simply have seen too many presentations where things went downhill from the moment the speaker opened Visual Studio.In an internal presentation or...

My MIX11 Recap: Day 3

By WeigeltRo

There is always something sad about the last day of a conference. The sight of attendees with suitcases in the hallways, the noise of (de-)construction outside the session rooms during the talks and the overall fatigue after several conference days (not to...

My MIX11 Recap: Day 2

By WeigeltRo

KeynoteThe second keynote of MIX11 covered (mostly) Windows Phone 7, Silverlight 5 and Kinect. Before getting to upcoming Windows Phone features, Joe Belfiore explained what happened (or not happened) with the WP7 updates. While it sounded plausible, it also...

My MIX11 Recap: Day 1

By WeigeltRo

KeynoteWith the pre-con day being somewhat underwhelming, the hopes were high for some energy from the keynote to get MIX11 truly started. In the end it not only failed to energize the crowd (judging by the comments on the hallways and on Twitter afterwards),...