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Somewhere over the rainbow with Silverlight Smooth Streaming
eek! David Sayed (good blog for Silverlight + Media) just announced a great new experience coming this week courtesy of Netflix and Silverlight Smooth Streaming . There’s no place like home and you’ll be able to enjoy the experience right from the comfort Read More...
Fire up your Silverlight 3 Skills
I really like the format of these sessions and if you can make it (in person or virtually) on September 17, you’ll want to catch the Silverlight 3 FireStarter. This particular session is focused on: What’s new in Silverlight 3 What’s happening in the Read More...
Architect Resources – Pragmatism and Turbulent Times
eek! Catching up on my reading and found that there is a new Architecture Journal: Architecture in Turbulent Times . From the magazine: “…the role of an architect is a unique one. Architects are some of the more unbiased technology decision makers, and Read More...
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!
Welcome to another episode of Feel Good Fridays . Have you seen Microsoft Research’s Project Tuva . This is really a great project (thank you Bill Gates!) with a truly innovative user experience (in my humble opinion). From the website: Microsoft Research’s Read More...
Get a sneak peek at SharePoint 2010 for Developers
eek! I discovered this last week and wanted to share: Sneak a peek at the developer experience in SharePoint 2010 . A Silverlight Web Part, LINQ for SharePoint, a Client Object Model, more! P.S. It’s a sneak peek, the SharePoint team will disclose more Read More...
A Silverlight 3 Song
eek! I offer you my humble, hyperlinked ode to Silverlight to coincide with the Silverlight 3 release and the laundry list of awesome features for developers and designers. Sung to the tune of Edelweiss from the Sound of Music . Go ahead, sing along, Read More...
April Cool
eek! Bucking the trend on April Fool by doing an April Cool post. Here are some of the things I talked about in March. Hope you get a resource or link that saves you time... Girl Geeks Rule Downloading IE8 Get Silverlight 3 Beta with eyes wide open Say Read More...
Get Silverlight 3 Beta with eyes wide open
eek! Ok, I guess they are making some noise in Vegas . Silverlight 3 Beta is available and so is… And for those of you who do this with eyes wide open, please heed the warning … See you out of the browser! Read More...
Keeping my eyes/ears peeled for MIX announcements this week
eek! Not going to MIX this week but I’m really excited about all the announcements Microsoft intends to make. No, I don’t know any of them :) but I would expect they’ll all be exciting in their own right. For a taste, see this recent announcement from Read More...
Silverlight? It must be Maine!
eek! UPDATE: March 11, 2009. We will be postponing this talk until April. If you'd like to learn what Microsoft has planned for Business Applications and Silverlight, wait for MIX :) or watch Brad Abrams drop major hints . If you are in the area, join Read More...
How much would you pay for serious SharePoint Smarts?
eek! Looking for some serious SharePoint Smarts with topics ranging from SharePoint administration, architecture, development and the end user? How much would you pay for this (the random emphasis of keywords being mine)… Administration: Administration: Read More...
Silverlight and LINQ for Life
eek! For my new friends that made it through my session on Silverlight 2 and LINQ, here are the resources promised. Presentation Slides with potentially useful links… Silverlight 2 Overview (at the end of those stock slides are some links you’ll want Read More...
I got XAMLized and you can too…
eek! I intend to have a page with all the resources that we uncovered at the Connecticut XAMLFest last week . It was a blast and we had over 50 folks (see the photo below) crammed into our tiny office to get XAMLized for 2 days. Were you there? How did Read More...
Happy Groundhog Day!
eek! In the category of – I’ve seen that before, I’m republishing my January posts in case you missed it. Happy Groundhog Day! The Joy of SxS Jumping in to .NET from ColdFusion? I’m not going to be a fool this April 1 Need more Business Intelligence? Read More...
Candy Everybody Wants: WPF DataGrid and the Ribbon Part 2
eek! Just a quick update to my previous post with additional resources for you. Quality I discovered this great document from the WPF Team entitled the WPF Application Quality Guide . It has suggested roadmaps for: Quality Assurance Engineer/Software Read More...
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