I am working on a rich content app for one of my talks at TechEd Europe and I thought it would be a good idea to implement a search box with an autocomplete of the past search quires. The intuition here is that the changes are someone else has searched for the same thing you are searching for, so past...

I had a great time at the AJAX Experience Conference today. John Resig did a good talk on choosing the right Ajax framework for you. He laid out four attributes you should use when you judge an Ajax library…. While he didn't mention the Microsoft AJAX Library, I think it stacks up very well in...

The conference has not even officially started and I am already having a blast. The long trip down here gave me a chance to do some coding with the new Beta of the ASP.NET Ajax Extensions . This is definitely fun stuff… If you have not already, I suggest you check it out. I was mostly working on the...

October 23-25 th the next installment of the Ajax Experience Conference is being held in Boston. I am looking forward to hearing from many of the big names in the Ajax space…. Looks like all the major folks offering Ajax frameworks and the JavaScript experts will be there. Last time in the bay area I...

As you saw from ScottGu’s blog, we gave Atlas an official name and, in response to strong customer feedback, have it on a plan to ship 1.0 around the end of the year on top of VS2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. The team is super focused on this goal and I am very pumped to be able to deliver it!

Steven Smith has a good discussion going on about what we should name "Atlas"... I can confirm that "Atlas" will not be the final name, and clearly we are listening, so add your funny and serious suggestions a like... Atlas Naming Game (note, you gotta check out all the comments.. that is where the fun...

Julio translated a recent atlas talk and demo I did into Spanish.. Great to see Atlas reaching a much broader community. Spanish translated slides Spanish translated demo Enjoy!

The video of my Web Design World talk was just posted... Take a look... I'd love to hear your feedback, thoughts. http://www.ftponline.com/channels/web/reports/wdws... There is a free registration required to watch it...

Arturo and I had a great time at Web Design World in Seattle this past week... It was really good to see there is so much passion about getting developers and designers working well together. I am still not sure I am “seeing the world in CSS” yet, but I am working on it ;-) At any rate, here are...

Matt Gibbs (the dev manager for Atlas) recently posted a great article on Atlas... A very good introduction.. have a read! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/07/AtlasAtLast/

I am having a blast this week at the ColdFusion conference CFUnited . Here are the slides from my keynote today... One interesting demo I did was a Atlas\ColdFusion demo .. Check it out and let me here what you think! Update (11/21/2006): I reader wrote in with a comment that I thought would help...

Andres Sanabria, the lead PM for ASP.NET and Atlas, happens to be from glorious Colombia recently did an interview in Spanish about Atlas ... While my high school Spanish clearly fails me, knowing Anders I know this is good stuff! If you can understand Spanish give it a listen and let the rest...

What percentage of web applications would you say fall into the category of glorified View-Add-Update-Delete operations over a database? That is, you have data stored in a database and you want to expose a web front to look at the data in interesting ways (master details, etc) and add/update/delete the...

Next week I head out to the DC area for a ColdFusion conference called CFUnited ... At the conference I will do a keynote that covers a building a great web 2.0 user experiences and I can’t help but demo a little of Atlas. Anyone else going? What do you want\expect to hear from a Microsoft keynote...

Can you believe we already have two books published on Atlas? Makes me think we have hit on something big here ;-) Foundations of Atlas: Rapid Ajax Development with ASP.NET 2.0 Programming Atlas Oh and I just noticed that Matt Gibbs and Bertrand Le Roy (both developers on the Microsoft...

David Barkol, one of our partners, recently posted a webcast of a good introduction to Ajax and Atlas... It is great fun for me to hear our story from one of our customers! Download and enjoy!

I am very excited to do a keynote at the Web Design World conference in Seattle July 10-12 th I am honored to be up there with a great group of speakers . Here is the talk I am planning to do... Any thoughts\comments? I’d love to hear from folks that are going.. Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager...

In response to comments I posted a high-res version of my recent Atlas talk... (it is actually the dry run I did the night before) It is very demo heavy, but if you want to skip a bit... here are some suggestions 5:58 – Task List Demo 25:00 – Dice Demo Search Page (Server centric Atlas\ASP.NET...

Cool article on Top 13 reasons to CONSIDER the Microsoft platform for Web 2.0 development from the folks at http://web2.0central.com/ They didn’t mention the cool dice demo as a reason... but still a good list to show to your management ;-)

I posted the slides and demo for my talk on the Atlas Ajax framework that I will do this morning at the Ajax Experience . Slides Demos Updated: Video of a dry run I did the night before the talk. It is very demo heavy! Updated 2: High-res version of video Enjoy!

Thanks to the Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer (and my fellow panelist) for having me on panel last night. I had a great time and continued to learn a ton! For those of you that were not there, I captured a few of the questions that stood out to me... - Are we at an infliction point in application...

The Ajax Experience conference kicked off yesterday in beautiful San Francisco ... I am having a great time down here already. It is WAY different than some of the big Microsoft run conferences (PDC, TechEd).. for one thing I am one of only three MS employees down here ;-) I have already learned...

Check it out, the sessions from Mix06 have been posted... you can see a streaming video of the entire presentation and get slides. Check out a few of my favorites: Developing a Better User Experience with "Atlas" - Shanku does a nice overview of Atlas.. Designing a Better User Experience with...

3 rd party control vendors are an important part of any successful platform, so I am very happy to see a couple of control vendors come out with some Atlas enabled controls. Check them out... ComponentArt Announces Support for Microsoft "Atlas" Trlerik: Third-party controls and support for Atlas...

One of the things that I really love about Atlas is that it offers a framework approach to ajax style development. That is, rather than each new control having to be a “stove pipe” of plumbing code, with Atlas each new control is able to leverage a rich, integrated framework. This not only makes it easier...