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June 2008 - Posts

Weekend: The Reith Lectures 2008.

Posted Saturday, June 28, 2008 10:55 AM by dsumner
I don’t know how  familiar you are with the Reith Lectures . They have been running  for 60 years now. This  years Lectures were actually presented last month, but  I have only  just managed to find the time to listen to them. Read More...
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reMix 08 UK

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 12:16 PM by dsumner
  September sees the UK version of the MIX 08 event held in Las Vegas   hitting our shores in  Brighton. You can see further details of the event here . MIX is event very much focused on the web and the Microsoft technologies  Read More...
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Trends: Are you a ‘/’ person?

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 11:53 AM by dsumner
There appears to be trend that shows greater acceptance  in the fact people may not only be multi-skilled but also multi-rolled. In the  Renaissance   period such a concept would have been termed as a polymath . Someone who is good at doing Read More...
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Term of the day – Womenomics.

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:14 PM by dsumner
I heard this term being used in a  session with Paul Dawson at Conchango today.  After a little bit hunting around the term appears to have come from the Economist ( who’d have thought !)  a little snapshot is also given by the daily mail. Read More...
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Preparation to support Internet Explorer 8

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:43 AM by dsumner
Getting ready to support IE8? The most popular resources are below. The Key site is this: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/default.htm Others are: · Compatibility Knowledge Base article: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120024 Read More...
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A link to Technorati

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:05 AM by dsumner
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A World of Silverlight

Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:50 PM by dsumner
It never ceases to amaze me how developers from across the globe can take a technology from Microsoft,  build on it and extend its abilities to a level nobody had considered before. Often people don’t realize just how much partners and developers Read More...
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Instant Messaging from my blog

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 11:45 PM by dsumner
I’ve added a new button to my blog today! If you scroll down the page, and look on the right side, just above the PDC jar, you’ll see a button under the title “Contact Me on IM”. This allows you to start an instant messaging  conversation with me, Read More...
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Weekend: Running with Lance Armstrong

Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:27 PM by dsumner
Ok I admit it,I am not the world’s fittest person, actually I am nowhere near, a million miles away, etc. from being a fit person in  the most basic sense. It’s even more humbling when there are people in the same group as me who run the Flora London Read More...
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Virtual Earth

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 4:41 PM by dsumner
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with our virtual earth platform, but its something that I find immensely  interesting. A couple of days ago the Virtual Earth(VE) team announced they had added another 69.2 Terabytes of mapping data! Cities Read More...
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Why “the art of the possible?”

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 4:10 PM by dsumner
Just to clarify the name of this blog.  In my day to day work I find myself  presenting or discussing what is possible on a very regular basis. But  my discussions with customers are very  rarely about the technology itself. Rather Read More...
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How this Blog was built

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 3:56 PM by dsumner
There is a terrible trend in technology, where by everyone automatically assumes that your fully familiar with every technological acronym ever conceived.  You were somehow  born with the knowledge of what a compiler is, how to debug   Read More...
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Where to begin?

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:03 PM by dsumner
When looking at this blank page before me it takes me back to the time I have spent  leaning photography, and that most challenging of questions, “ why do you want to make a photograph of that?”, I get that same sense of unease now, “why do you want Read More...
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