09 October 2008
Silence is <bleep> Golden.
If you've watched Entourage you may chuckle. The point of this post is simply that I'm silent for a reason, I'm busy, really busy (PDC is coming so behind the scenes work needs to be done). That being said, I had lunch with Glenn Block today and he's Read More...
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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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28 September 2008
I get to ride the pony now (new toy).
Living in the US vs Australia has one standout plus, the cars over here are so damn cheap that it makes me angry to think I'm paying almost double to triple for the same models back home. That being said, I decided my birthday is coming up in October, Read More...
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19 September 2008
Introducing - MS Project Nexus
  Introduction. In today’s .NET ecosystem you the customer are basically digesting a lot of our new wave of products, and the on ramping can be at times a bumpy ride. As typically the products are isolated in various pockets on Microsoft.com Read More...
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17 September 2008
Playing with ASP.NET MVC.
I must say, ASP.NET has always been a love/hate relationship with me and it has nothing to do with the technology, more my mind trying to melt to the way ASP.NET works vs JSP/Coldfusion. Hey, I spent 10 years doing the later, groking ASP.NET in terms Read More...
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15 September 2008
How to: Make Innerglows with Expression Blend.
I'm knee deep in a WPF project i'm writing for my team. I had the need today to have an innerglow, and noticed that we seem to have forgotten this little BitmapEffect of goodness (which I'll be promptly hassling Jon tomorrow for in the next revision). Read More...
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12 September 2008
You know Microsoft won an Emmy for H.264 right?
Scott Guthrie is close to being back from his vacation (which for Scott maybe a case of 20,000 emails a day instead of 50,000 heh as he was still somewhat active internally). He was recently interviewed by Microsoft Press Pass around some new developments Read More...
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26 August 2008
How to Submit a Bug/Feature Request for Silverlight.
Stephen Price sent me a piece of email asking how the heck does one submit a bug to Silverlight Team? I replied "connect.microsoft.com" thinking it was self-explanatory from there and off you go. I then actually clicked on it and I'm embarrassed Read More...
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14 August 2008
Do you know Silverlight has an inbuilt native RSS Reader?
Interesting, I keep asking this question a lot and the responses I get are something that un-nerves me. In that, in Silverlight there is a native RSS Reader built in, so the ability to consume an RSS Feed is so easy, it's almost cheating (Sharepoint readers, Read More...
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12 August 2008
Silverlight has a more natural support of JavaScript.
It was interesting to read this CNet.com article around Flash, HTML and AJAX . It talked about the various ways in which the Adobe Flash is struggling to compete with AJAX in the RIA space. In fact, some of our early research showed that AJAX was associated Read More...
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09 August 2008
Silverlight, Deep Zoom & LOLCats.
I can haz ur LOLCats in DeepZoom Thx bai. Well, for those of you whom aren't up to speed with LOLCats then you really need spend some time studying this creation of gold nuggetness. Rob has definitely put a lot of thought behind this and I was amazed Read More...
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08 August 2008
Please tell me this isn't the US Presidents computer..
This one came into my inbox today, I had to just laugh. I mean I know Bill Gates said he wanted to put Windows on every desktop, I just hope he didn't mean the presidents as well in this particular case :) hehe. Just goes to show, that Windows Vista has 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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07 August 2008
You lost your $35 domain, but you can have it back for $5000 USD
I have this really bad habit of buying domains for projects I plan on working on for 1 year only. I recently accidentally lost BeyondTheBrowser.NET and SilverlightCoders.com due to not only moving between US to Australia (i.e. lost track of my inbox) Read More...
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06 August 2008
Deep Zoom Guru, Lutz goes online.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Lutz in our downtown Seattle Office and he's just announced his blog tonight is now online. Hey everyone – I started a deep zoom blog to answer some of the many questions I’ve been getting and to put some nice Read More...
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