I seem to be “just a girl who can’t say no”.
What was I thinking?! 🙂 Of course, it will be a blast!
Is it obvious that I’ve found some other things to do with my time, like work or even play? Well, “play” is still a dream… but at least garden a little…
Last night I took one of my demos that I have used in past articles (Persisting Ink on the Web for MSDN online and Ink on the Web for CoDe Mag) and that will be in my session at Mobile Connections in November (Las Vegas) and redid it in a page using Atlas. Anyone attending my session will be the first to lay eyes on it!
It was very sweet. The demo has an ink control on the page and grabs ink data from a database and loads it into the control. It’s not rocket science and I’m just saving a full postback, but since then I have been dreaming up a fun new project that I am hoping to find some time to dive into that will make nice use of these combined tools. I’m not sharing that quite yet, but just the fact that ink and atlas go together is pretty groovy.
I had been mapping locations on local.live.com and then using the “email” button to get a link to send to people.
This created a problem because the default for the link is zoomed in all the way. Some people said they were getting zoomed in all the way with the aerial view, which generally doesn’t have any images. Not everyone finds the zooming toolbar intuitive enough.
So I poked around the site and discovered the Permalink feature. This is how to send someone not only the same marker, but the same exact view that you are looking at.
Click on Share on the upper toolbar, not on the scratch pad. It has more options and permalink is one of them.