Looks like I may be having a change in the role at MSFT ... I hope to resurrect this blog. stay tuned.

The smart folks from the Patterns & Practices group have released some application archtecture guides to help folks building Microsoft RIA (Silverlight) and Web applications. For a look at the RIA pocket guide, have a look at JD Meier's post here...

Thanks to David Lymburner for putting this list together. Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK 1.2 Brief Description The Windows Live™ ID Web Authentication software development kit (SDK) gives you a platform-neutral way to bring the power...

Back in march I wrote about a great Silverlight 2 OnlineBanking demo. At the time the code was based on Silverlight 2 beta 1. Marley Gray sent out a note to the silverlight discussions alias that it has been updated to Silverlight 2 RTM bits. You can...

Latest web downloads from Microsoft ... thanks to David Lymburner. Cheers, Hans Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP Brief Description Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable...

As an American who was born and raised in Chicago (currently living in Toronto) I can't tell you how great I feel to today. Wow Look at Grant Park... How proud I am of Chicago... Way to go America !!!! Way to go Chicago. Obama is the next US President...

http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2008/10/31/top-web-20-online-news-and-reviews-collaborative-monitoring-and-analysis-site-application-for-ceo%E2%80%99s-and-entrepreneurs/ Nice to see Feedables at number 23. I homestead a feedables site called riafeeds. It attempts...

Phil Haack Sr. Program manager for the ASP.NET MVC team presented at the PDC. You can watch it on here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC21/ I really liked his HaackedOverflow demo and the nice interative flow of development. He even demos OpenID...

Today I presented an intro to ASP.NET MVC beta to 300+ folks at the Toronto Congress Centre. This was the largest audience I have presented to thus far. Overall I am pretty happy with how it went.... Only a few folks got up and left and the demos it did...

Wow Silverlight 2 shipped last week and I did not even post on it. Get the latest here: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ I really got distracted by the economy meltdown and how to prepare for it. A great site to help the understand these economic times...

Here are some new RIA related downloads compiled by my colleague David Lymburner I thought I would share: Cheers, Hans Delivering the next generation web with Silverlight Brief Description Delivering the next generation web with Silverlight ...

I was asked to put together an hour presentation on Silverlight 2 for my communities day with MCS. I really want to thank Lindsay Rutter for her 6 MSDN web casts called "Look what you can do with Silverlight 2. Here are her blog posts for the MSDN...

I configured my Lenovo 4 gigs/64bit 2.2 ghr dual core as Windows server standard 2008 workstation for my new RIA development machine So far I have followed keith Comb's post http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2008/02/01/installing-windows...

My good bud from Feedables Davie just showed me this on his iphone.... http://twistori.com/#i_love twistori mash up on twitter... what key word tweets updated every second... Killer App. Nice work coming from Vienna About Name twistori...

Thanks to Miha Kralj for sending this GEM. Next Generation IT - Computing in the Cloud... Life after Jurassic OO Middleware http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_01/column3.pdf Uber cross group collaboration. Some questions... Which cloud to join? DELL...

Timetube rocks! The folks over a dipity get it . I totally agree with Seth Godin here. What a way better YouTube UX. Cheers, hans

Watch Anthony Franco's AJAX World Keynote Web 2.0 = RIAs Rich Internet Applications Enable Utility, Community, AND Engaging Experiences Anthony had some sage advice for Designers, Developers, Marketers, Product Managers, CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, Customer...

Shout out to Adam Kinney , the Silverlight Surfer, to coining the phrase Devigner ... as this is the skill set for the "Programmable web 2.0." It should be interesting when the Devigners come to an enterprise near you. Cheers, Hans

Considering a lot of RIA apps run on IIS with SQL this headline caught my attention. So far one of the best write ups is from Wired . However the article ends with: " So far there have been no details about who is behind the attacks. " However further...

I really like reading ReadWriteWeb ... one of the best sources I found on Web 2.0 and the Progamable Web. Richard MacManus was kind enough to post his real-time notes from O'Reilly's keynote from the Web 2.0 expo . We learned about the big opportunities...

I first wrote about the Silverlight Woodgrove Online bank example back in March when I saw it at the Financial Services Developers Conference... My colleague and User Experience Advisor, at the Canada UX blog, was able to sit down and ask the lead designer...

So the guys at feedables upgraded the engine to render the default page nicely on an iphone... Have a look at: http://www.riafeeds.com/iphone.php Interestingly it does NOT work on my windows mobile 6 browser as it does not seem able to resolve a book...

I want to thank Miha Kralj for this post to the architectural Diggs. Web Science is where it is at. I think Web Science is the secret sauce to cross-group collaboration. It will also have a huge affect on Rich Internet Applications. When I think back...

I was thinking about contributing to the doppler product from Ron Jacobs of ArcCast which is up on codeplex. In order to contribute to codeplex projects you have to agree to the Microsoft Permissive License which I thought was worth publishing. Hans...

Some buddies of mine are doing this little rss mashup thing called feedables and they ask me to check it out so I went ahead and built riafeeds.com with the simple feedables admin web app. Essentially it allows me to look at some of the best content on...