May, 2007

Now put this on a Surface :) and ship to me please. Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Nice WPF componentry.

Nice! Surface computing from Microsoft - getting our cool on. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Update: More information courtesy of someone else :) Microsoft Launches New Product Category: Surface Computing Picture a surface that can recognize...

That's the bad news, the good news? By this fall, however, upcoming platform technologies including Windows Server 2008, SQL Server codenamed “Katmai,” Visual Studio codenamed “Orcas” and Silverlight will already be in developers’ hands and approaching...

Beautiful life. Beautiful wife. Curt as a teacher ! Welcome to the blogosphere Mr. Devlin.

Heh, heh, heh. I have those too! He is back and we are stronger for it !

Thank you all for making our first ever HLS Developer Conference a success. For those brave souls who stayed to here me chat about IIS 7.0 and WCF/WF, here are my slide decks (remember we will have all the decks on http://www.hlsdevcon.com in about a...

Check it out, Ryan Seacrest is digging deep into Visual Studio 2005 :) But seriously, this the place to take advantage of unique special offers and new training opportunities from Microsoft Learning. Explore what Microsoft Certification can do for...

With all the buzz around MIX , Popfly and such, this particular gem may have gotten lost in the shuffle: IIS 7.0 Beta 3 is out and truly worth exploring. Looking for a Jumpstart? Here you go... All you need is Vista (it is in the box) *or* grab yourself...

Charlie Kindel, that's a familiar name that I haven't seen since those COM is Love days. Well, he keeps popping up around Home Server. That hockey puck version of a Home Server is very, very cool. LotsOBuzz from WinHEC. Check it out .

Oh my, this is big. Microsoft to Acquire aQuantive, Inc. Pasted from < http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-18Advertising.mspx > And this too! Microsoft Launches Popfly Pasted from < http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007...

We've got the slide decks from our last month's Financial Developers Conference. Go get it ! I thoroughly enjoyed myself and if you happened to attend, hope you did too!

Fantastic case study on the power of the Microsoft Platform from the Insurance Industry, I loved this quote about empowerment: “Many individuals who began their careers with COBOL have long since moved on to other languages, and more efficient development...

How timely, we just announced that Microsoft acquired SoftArtisans Inc.’s OfficeWriter . Would you like to learn how it is being employed in Financial Services? Join us next week. Applied business intelligence and reporting with Microsoft SQL Reporting...

Well it has begun, check out this promised SWF-to-XAML converter. I'm sure more will show up. Welcome to Windows you will like it here! http://www.erain.com/Products/harmony/ Will it be free? Dunno, but in the meantime... http://www.mikeswanson.com/swf2xaml...

Do you remember when C# was Cool? I know it is still very cool and what they are doing with LINQ/C# 3.0 is very exciting, but remember when C# may have been named "Cool"? This is going waaaaay back to the time of the NGWS - Next Generation Windows Services...