Today, we’ll dive into how to implement overlay icons in your pinned site.  Overlay icons are used to surface notifications or status to the user.  When you pin a site to the Taskbar, remember that it is now always available in your Taskbar...

Remember how in an earlier post , I mentioned that there were two parts to the msSiteMode API to integrate pinned sites with the Windows 7 taskbar: some things were implemented in HTML and would apply to anyone visiting the website, and some things were...

In yesterday’s post , we saw how to implement site properties in pinned sites.  Today, we will learn to implement Jump List Tasks, which (like the site properties that we looked at yesterday) will apply to anyone who visits the site.  Jump List...

Now that you have the background on what pinned sites are and why they’re useful , let’s start looking at some code!  I previously mentioned that web developers can use the msSiteMode APIs to integrate pinned sites with the Windows 7 Taskbar. ...

In yesterday’s blog post , I introduced what pinned sites are and showed how they are available to any website.  However, as much as we developers love to play with shiny new technology for the cool factor, you can’t adopt technology for the fun...

In Internet Explorer 9, a new feature called pinned sites was introduced.  In this post, I’ll explain what pinned sites are.  In future posts in this series, I’ll discuss why they are worth implementing and how to do it using HTML and JavaScript...

The third Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing (MICWIC) was held on April 1-2, 2011 at Oakland University.  There were about 120 attendees – primarily female university students, along with faculty and industry professionals.  This conference...

Did you miss the MIX keynote today? If so, not to worry. Here’s a quick summary of the major new releases and announcements: Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 (PP1): http://bit.ly/dXPQ2T (and try out the demos at http://ietestdrive.com...

I am extremely hard on my computers.  My job is to keep up with new technology, so I am constantly trying out new software and installing pre-release software (and all of the bugs that may come with it) on my box.  Over time, with the quantity...

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform, and a lot of developers are excited to try it out. To help you try it out, we have started a program called “Windows Azure Pass.” You can register a Live ID for a Pass and receive 30 days of free cloud computing...