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I've been trying to plug back into the tech blogs so I can keep my knowledge up. Vertigo has one of the most impressive blogs in terms of quality & depth. check out this post . The blog isn't much to look at ( vanilla WSS or MOSS 2007 ) but the content Read More...
Kevin just announced on dev.live.com Microsoft is joining DataPortbility.org who's mission is: put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, Read More...
Yesterday at a team offsite we all (did Myers-Briggs Type Indicators ) (fun I know!) I was pleasantly surprised how fun / informative it was. If you are into this stuff I'm an ENTP . From Wikipedia notable ENTPs : U.S. Presidents John Adams [8]   Read More...
ProgrammableWeb is one of my favorite websites for web 2.0 info, it haqs a huge collection of APIs and also Mashups built using those APIs. Recently I added all the APIs from dev.live.com to ProgrammableWeb and all of the Windows Live Quick Apps too. Read More...
Case closed = grab the source code , otherwise it will be in the 6.0 release BTW = the 6.0 release has a MASSIVE amount of work done on it - I had to make IE 30% zoom setting just to see all the items . Read More...
  Marc Mercuri gets more press than I do , he's interviewed by cheller on Channel9.msdn.com. Catherine Heller sat down with Marc Mercuri , Architect on the platform incubation team, to discuss one of Marc’s recent incubation projects, Tafiti Read More...
  check out the work in progress code on http://codeplex.com/wlquickapps Read More...
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Ever wonder who reads the messages you send to tafiti@microsoft.com ? Well wonder no more; it's Marc! Not only does he read your messages, but he has listened to you all and has made available the code behind the Tafiti search engine leveraging Microsoft Read More...
It is targetedz at 6-18 year olds and the content is contributed by students and then moderated by teaching professionals. From a technical point of view it uses: Silverlight with Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Telligent's Community Server (powered Read More...
Read more here https://seattle.codecamp.us/sessions.aspx   Windows Live Development In this session, we'll take a look at the Windows Live development platform, which enables 3rd party applications to integrate with Live ID, Contacts, Spaces, Messenger, Read More...
A recent change was made to the Spaces Photo API ( http://dev.live.com/spaces/photos ). when uploading you now need to set the Content-Type to image/jpeg Read More...
once again, this is cool for doing smoke tests. === $DomainAuthenticationToken = "** put your DAT HERE **" $strRootURI = " https://cumulus.services.live.com/angus@angusloganlive.com/SpacesPhotos/2014/pic.jpg " $PictureLocalFilePath Read More...
George Durzi & Kevin Marshall have implemented the SharePoint Search into the Tafiti. Get more information here and grab the source code from Codeplex source code tab. Read More...
What is Eye-Fi ? The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site. No cables, no waiting, no hassles. Read More...
The Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service is moving to from " its current hardware in Sandbox to a more permanent home on new hardware in the Production environment " - YAY! There may be an hour where the UI (silverlight.live.com) & API will Read More...
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I always lose the Windows Vista Snipping Tool - I just found that I don't lose it, I uninstall it when I remove the Tablet PC Optional Components from Vista. Read More...
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And the reason I don't like Seattle weather is this : Brisbane is Where I'm from and its a nice 29 degrees at 2 PM celsius (thats 84 in American) Read More...
Through no fault of their own, Scott & Luke had a bug ( see below for the details ) in LiveNet the managed code wrapper for Live Services ; I quickly logged it ( log one now! ) with the guys and they turned around a fix quickly and its assigned to Read More...
I blogged about adding messenger presence to blog cross posts before and thought there must be an easier way. I issued the challenge to ScottIsAFool (aka Scott Lovegrove) and he came through with the goods. His directions for doing this via Windows Live Read More...
I always find myself trying to figure out what time zone a city is in; And its smart too – it can tell the difference between Brisbane & Sydney in Australia (both GMT+1000) but one has DST and the other doesn’t. It also tells me more cities than Vista's Read More...
I just had a play with Powershell - pretty neat - I wrote a little script with dumps the XML of your spaces photos. Right now the terms of use for the Photo API/Contacts API only allow use from web sites but this is a cool little script for testing / Read More...
I just linked to my buddy Johann Kruse on my previous post; instead of just using his name and linking to his blog; I decided to show is Messenger presence there and add a link to the IM control. Johann has published his messenger presence and using the Read More...
Working at Microsoft is great but it isn't all sunshine lollypops and rainbows. Getting ~ 400 emails per day direct to my inbox, with the majority requiring action takes its toll. Calendar Year 2007 I sent 30,000 emails For the first few months I was Read More...
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