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01 October 2008
Michael Bach and his Web Platform Installer Beta
I was roaming the hallways early today and Michael Bach (Product Manager for Web Platform) was grinning like a he was up to no good. Given we're all working hard on the various efforts required for PDC , Silverlight RC0 etc I was wondering what he could Read More...
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08 August 2008
Silverlight Offline Storage with LINQ.
I get asked a lot about what the .NET folks can bring to RIA, and the first thing I proudly say is the fact is they bring a lot of engineering maturity and given Silverlight compliments a lot of their existing knowledge, it is our bet that this will carry Read More...
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05 August 2008
What do you mean all Silverlight.
There are times, when I see great things around Silverlight and this one site for me always seems to capture us at our best. Great video, and from a great site.. http://www.microsoft.com/click/artandtechnology Read More...
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04 July 2008
SEO, Nothing changed.
Gilbert (one of the original guys behind prooving Silverlight + SEO) of  had a great write-up outlining some depth thought around this whole SEO buzz that Adobe unleashed early this week. http://bits.samiq.net/2008/07/seo-for-ria-status-few-days-later.html Read More...
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25 February 2008
I am now a Product Manager.
I've managed to worm my way into Microsoft Corp HQ, as a Product Manager (PM) on the Rich Client Platform team ( Silverlight/WPF etc ). This for me is a major step forward in my career, as whilst I've enjoyed being one of the first RIA Evangelist for Read More...
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20 February 2008
Silverlight, Valve and Microsoft Surface..
What a title, and yes they do have one thing in common. Me... I arrived on campus, a couple of weeks ago and pretty much spent most of my time meeting with lots of people from different teams throughout Microsoft. I mainly focused on the UX story overall, Read More...
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31 January 2008
Something is being built...and I hope you RIA kids are watching...
I've been a busy little Microsoftee and have done a lot of interviews over the past few months with folks from all walks of life. I'm about to go live very soon with a project. What's the project? not telling until it's finished. I will give you a teaser Read More...
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15 November 2007
POC #1 - Project Harmony (pt1) (Silverlight & Flash)
I've been enjoying the overall experience of what Silverlight has to offer since I started with Microsoft back in January 07. That being said, I've often been an internal "goto" person at times for some Flash advice on behalf of Microsoft customers Read More...
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19 October 2007
New Silverlight Showcase (redesign).
Finally it's now online. The Silverlight folks have redesigned the showcase section of the site and it's purty. You can get the scoop on the story behind it at blog.lookorfeel.com The previous Showcase had reached its breaking point and wasn’t Read More...
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17 September 2007
Silverlight Masking Demo
I've been playing around with masking and trying to think up new ways to approach the axis in which Silverlight can play. In this demo, my approach was to see how I could put in a fake 3D (2D) room with two walls playing video on them, along with reflections Read More...
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05 August 2007
Clawing our way beyond the browser.
RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) have this approach that's quite unique, in that they kind of want to sit with fingers in both barrels. On one hand, they want to stay within the browser whilst on other hand they want to breach the browser and live Read More...
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18 July 2007
Taking on the RIA fight, Adobe, Microsoft and Scoble.
I stumbled upon Scoble's post around how great it was to see Ryan Stewart being agnostic in terms of praising Silverlight via his blog. I guess I didn't really pay attention to this, as Ryan's always been one of these guys that generally has a great pulse Read More...
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03 July 2007
Spiderman(Adobe) vs Batman(Microsoft)
If you've attended some of my presentations on Silverlight lately, you would see a main theme arise, it's called "Choice". Ever since starting with Microsoft, I've been deflecting, dodging even fighting with the Adobe brand over Microsoft's offerings, Read More...
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29 June 2007
Is Wikipedia biased towards Silverlight?
I'm getting my presentation together for Perth BarCamp tomorrow, and in my assembly of this awesome presentation I stumbled upon the Wikipedia for Silverlight. It has the usual guff around what it is, where it come from and so on, but one thing that stood Read More...
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31 May 2007
I predicted Microsoft Surface in September 2005
It was 29th September 2005 , I posted on my old blog " AJAX is a one trick poney " (yes, it should be pony). Inside my rant you'll find the following snippet "..Content is king, and always will be but how does one access the content, thats the key deciding Read More...
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