An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site
One of the projects I’m working on this year is the revitalization of the Project Rosetta site. The goal of the site is to provide tutorials for designers and UI developers demonstrating how to use existing skills with new technologies. The first version of the site was published last year with a series on Flash to Silverlight. The content has since been outdated and originally limited as it was written against Silverlight 2. Version 3 of Silverlight provides more functionality for tutorials written on design, interactivity and experimentation. Although the new Flash to Silverlight series is not available yet (planned for late October), I did want to share

How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3
Let me start with a disclaimer that this is not a fully supported feature in Blend 3. This post describes how to share the workspaces manually and by bravely editing the config file. Proceed with care or not at all.

Speaking on Designer/Developer workflow tools with Ryan Stewart on Oct 21
Since its inception, the Seattle Interact group’s goal has been to talk about designer and developer integration topics without a specific technology bias. The experiment has been interesting, but this October we are putting the idea to a true test. Ryan Stewart, a Platform Evangelist from Adobe and myself, a Silverlight and Expression Evangelist from Microsoft, will be discussing the tools available to improve the D2D Workflow. Here’s the abstract from the site: Designer and Developer Workflow Is it a myth? Marketing lingo? Or could it be real with the help of powerful tools?

A fresh start for AdamKinney.com
For the last four years, I’ve been hosting my own blog software or a permutation of some sort. Although this endeavor has been fun and educational, I’ve always used my own or experimental code resulting in a lot of time maintaining the system. I’ve decided to take a break and transfer that energy spent on the content engine and apply it to the actual content. I now have three hosted main outputs on the web: My Blog – Technical posts mainly focused on Silverlight and Expression. I’m current spending my time creating content for Designers and UI Developers, along with speaking engagements and c