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Here’s the news as seen on this month’s episode of D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE : Links Technology Post Roundup - 5th Edition Canadian Developer Events - One stop to get all of the developer events happening nationwide. Canadian Developer Connection Windows Store app - NOW available in the Windows Store...

Don’t have Silverlight? Download it here ! Or, download the video as a high quality WMV , medium quality WMV , high quality MP4 or MP3 . This Week on Channel 9 provides a summary of the most interesting videos and news on Microsoft’s Channel 9 site. In the latest episode, Dan Fernandez ( @danielfe )...

(Well, it's two English guys surrounded by tech gear and a psychedelic background. The interior of the TARDIS came to mind.) The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start is the first of a number of free online courses on WP7 programming led by Microsoft MVPs , and you can jump in right now! Presented by Andy Wigley...

Can’t see the video? You can download and install Silverlight or download the video in iPod (MP4) , MP3 , WMA , WMV , WMV (High) or Zune formats. Here’s what’s up on the latest edition of This Week on Channel 9 , the summary of the most interesting videos and news on Microsoft’s Channel 9 site: Creating...

If you haven’t tried the latest Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, get your hands on it now! This one’s got new goodies like a new SVG engine, the “Chakra” JavaScript engine now integrated into the browser instead of a separate object called via COM, better Acid3 (95/100) and WebKit SunSpider scores...

Can’t see the video? You can download and install Silverlight or download the video in iPod , MP3 , WMA , WMV , WMV (High) or Zune formats. Another week, another This Week on Channel 9 (TWC9), Microsoft’s regular webcast showing the past week’s highlight on Channel 9 , where Microsofties talk about what...

Can’t see the video? You can download and install Silverlight or download the video in MP4 , MP3 , WMA , WMV , WMV (High) or Zune formats. Once again, it’s time for another installment of This Week on Channel 9 (or TWC9 for short), Microsoft’s regular video webcast featuring Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller...

By now, you’ve probably seen my article covering the new, faster, even more standards-compliant Platform Preview 3 of Internet Explorer 9 . From hardware acceleration to a speed-boosted JavaScript engine with support for new ECMAScript 5 language features to support for SVG, <audio> , <video>...

Earlier this week, I was asked to make a short video that would be shown during a round table discussion on a hot topic: HTML5 vs. proprietary rich internet app technologies, such as Flash and Silverlight. My video was supposed to take the “RIAs complement HTML” side of the debate, while someone else...

The business of helping out with the NerdTrain , the Make Web Not War conference, associated activities and participating in a team offsite meeting has kept me a busier than I expected to be – in fact, this has been my first chance to post a blog entry! Stories and pictures are forthcoming, but in the...

Here’s a great movie which takes the audio from a presentation by Dan Pink based on the research for his latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and augments it with video of a whiteboard cartoonist illustrating what Pink is talking about. I have no idea how long it took to film...

You’ve probably read the news already , so I’ll cut right to the chase: earlier today, Internet Explorer’s big kahuna Dean Hachamovitch made an announcement about Internet Explorer 9 support for HTML5 video in Blogging Windows : In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as...

It’s Mesh week here in Toronto! Today, the developer-and-creative-focused MeshU conference takes place, followed tomorrow and Wednesday by the social-media-and-marketing focused Mesh conference. I’ll be in the audience at MeshU, and tending the Microsoft lounge (and the cocktail parties) at Mesh. If...