WPF, Silverlight and Design Links for 09/08/09

Matthias Shapiro — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:44:58 +0000

I finally cleaned out my Google Reader list and picked out the stuff I like.

Carsonified » 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers
Carsonified » Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers – Part 2
Source code for “WPF Control Development Unleashed” – From Pavan Podila, control development in WPF is pretty powerful… might be a good idea to check out his book.
A SilverLight TreeMap control – I can’t believe I missed this for so long. I need to dig into this a little more, but if this really works the way it looks, everyone should be worshiping Pavan Podila over at Pixel in Gene. This is an info vis dream come true.
Implicit Styles, Templates, Controls and FrameworkElements – From the Windows Presentation Foundation SDK team, Carole Snyder has a post on implicit styles… definately an under-appreciated topic in WPF
Expression Studio Tutorials Starter Kit – Jaime Rodriguez continues to be awesome
Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools – From Smashing Magazine and includes a section on iPhone CSS techniques
How to Create Your First iPhone Application – Yet another “Make an iPhone app” guide
How To Effectively Communicate With Developers – The graphic is hilarious.
Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices – Good for people who want to start digging into the typographic world
50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials – 50 is kind of a lot, but this is from Smashing Magazine, whose motto is “The most compelling link dumps in the design community”

Designer Silverlight » Styles and Templates