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Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:38 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Windows Live QnA service - public beta

Congrats to Betsy and the team : the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta. I've been on the private beta for a little while and turned to it for help for a couple of things when I got stuck. One example was asking for good seafood restaurants Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:43 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr

Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs. Kevin, one way of displaying Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:37 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Windows Live WiFi - beta testers wanted!

Laura John (who I used to work with while we were both at MSDN / TechNet), has blogged about something I've not heard of before...Windows Live WiFi: "We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 10:10 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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IE7 - RCs, Changes and CSS

As you probably know by now, Dean Hachamovitch announced this morning that Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is ready for download . So what is the difference between a 'Release Candidate' (RC) and a 'Beta'? Here's the short answer from Dean's Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:04 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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On CodePlex, Open Source and Microsoft

Korby on CodePlex : "My take, from the trenches, is that CodePlex is Microsoft doing what it has always done: quietly supporting the needs and expressed wishes of our most important customers: developers developers developers developers, the fine folks Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:55 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Instant IM Translation and other winners

The Made In Express Contest is reaching its conclusion - there are a total of 10 finalists' projects and now it is time to pick the winners...Who will win? Well, that's really up to you . My personal favorite is the Instant IM Translation . I confess Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:55 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Plugins and Atom for Windows Live Writer

A few more links for you... 'Hirlpoo West' points out one of the two plugins Tim Heuer has already developed for Windows Live Writer - a plugin that makes it a doddle to insert Flickr images. The other plugin Tim has developed is a Technorati tagging Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 1:59 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Good luck Niall :-(

Well, I just read Niall's post explaining that he is leaving Microsoft . Niall was recruited in April to help the Windows Live team build an RSS / Atom based syndication platform for consumption across devices. Like Scoble , I'm sorry to see Niall go. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:50 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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LINQ to Amazon

Yes, you read that right. LINQ to Amazon . "This example introduces Linq to Amazon , which allows querying Amazon for books using Linq! It uses Linq's extensibility to allow for language-integrated queries against a book catalog. The Linq query gets converted Read More...
Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 1:06 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Programming Language Trends and more

Tim O'Reilly's series of posts on book sales are giving up lots of interesting data and trends from the Nielsen Bookscan's top 3,000 Computer Books report (means: all publishers not just O'Reilly sales, but US sales only). Yesterday's post was no different Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:58 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls

Classic Digg bait: Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls: "Here are 10 of the pitfalls that litter the path to releasing your production ASP.NET applications, and what you can do to avoid them. All of the examples draw Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:57 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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If you like microformats and RSS you will love this.

If you like microformats and / or RSS you'll love it. If you don't know about microformats and / or RSS you need to watch it. Channel9 interviews Matt Augustine and Paresh Suthar about Live Clipboard and Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE). Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:04 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Syndicated search engines broken - Part II

A few days ago I grumbled at the poor state of the search engines specializing in syndicated (RSS'd or Atomized) content. Today, Michael Marshall Patrick is enthusiastically supporting a proposed standard by Bloglines that is trying to solve an apparent Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:34 PM by alexbarn | 17 Comments

Microsoft teaser campaign for Zune. not.

Cesar sayz : "folks on the web are saying that it's a Microsoft teaser campaign for Zune. It's not." Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:50 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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