http://www.deepgraysea.com/ The deep gray sea website is the evolving portfolio of Michael Micheletti, Seattle-area web designer. The site features photographs, code samples, links to previously created sites and screenshots of web applications. Topics include design, music, faith and family. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:17:40 GMT ListGarden Program 1.02 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.deepgraysea.com/bbroundedrect.htm This article includes sample Java code that creates a gradient-filled rounded rectangle on a BlackBerry device. Big Deal you say. Before I actually tried to do this, I wouldn't have rubbed two brain cells together worrying about it. But then I spent days trying to figure out how RIM's Graphics.drawShadedFilledPath() method works so that I could make a good-looking button. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:17:18 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/bbroundedrect.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/newdesktop.htm Early this year a big project fell into my lap: I was given the opportunity to redesign the WAVE Desktop Communicator. This is the most popular client application for Twisted Pair Solutions' WAVE software, which lets people with computers talk with people with radios, people with telephones, people with satellites halfway across the world, etc. Let's subtitle this page "What I did With My Summer Vacation" since I pretty much worked nonstop on this beast during Seattle's warmest season and now have the geeky pallor to prove it. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:16:10 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/newdesktop.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/goodreads2009.htm This last year was pretty intense and technical for me professionally. I mostly read for pleasure or watched anime in odd moments to sort of turn my brain off. But hey, even people with their brains turned off need quality entertainment, right? In keeping with my year-end tradition, here are noteworthy fiction, non-fiction, manga and anime titles that I've read or watched during 2009. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:47:18 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/goodreads2009.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/illustratorimagesforxaml.htm This is the first of three articles on how to create and use vector images from Adobe Illustrator as XAML art in a WPF project. We’ll be creating multiple "states" of an image in Illustrator, importing them into XAML using Expression Blend 3.0, and then wiring them up into a button using a trigger. This first article shows how to prepare the images in Adobe Illustrator CS4. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:56:39 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/illustratorimagesforxaml.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/importingimagestoxaml.htm This is the second of three articles on how to create and use vector images from Adobe Illustrator as XAML art in a WPF project. This second article has us laying out the simple bones of a WPF project and importing our images into a Resource Dictionary using Expression Blend 3.0. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:55:42 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/importingimagestoxaml.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/xamltemplateswitchinstyle.htm This is the third of three articles on how to create and use vector images from Adobe Illustrator as XAML art in a WPF project. We’re going to wire up our imported images in a way that lets a ContentControl switch templates based on its parent button's state. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:11:19 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/xamltemplateswitchinstyle.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/goodreads2008.htm Seems like a good tradition to share some of the great books and other mind-filling content I've run across this year. Here are my favorite fiction, non-fiction, manga and anime titles that I've read or watched during 2008. All have links to Amazon, but many can also be found at the library. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:10:10 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/goodreads2008.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/bigsnow2008.htm Bing Crosby attacks Seattle! All you hardy winter folk in Finland and Wisconsin will laugh, but a couple weeks of snow in a hilly city like Seattle is no picnic. Articulated buses jackknife in the middle of the road. Snowplows squarsh it all down so you can spin around faster. And I'm not kidding - they don't salt the roads because the salt might get into Puget Sound (a large body of salt water connected to the Pacific Ocean). A few snapshots from our winter wonderland this year. Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:44:27 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/bigsnow2008.htm http://www.deepgraysea.com/faith.htm There are now two Baha'i prayer of the day offerings: a small version shown on the faith page of this site, and a Google Gadget that you can add to a personalized iGoogle home page. They both display the same prayers, photos, and dates each day. The prayers are attuned to the special days in the Baha'i calendar, and the photos were selected for individual prayers during the bahaiprayers.org redesign earlier this year. Follow along to see examples, sample code, and instructions for adding them to your home page or web site. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:37:48 GMT http://www.deepgraysea.com/faith.htm