My buddy Chris let me know that the Microsoft Store in the UK has the Expression 3 suite of designer products available for pre-order. Mike Ormond has a great post about Expression 3 and a cool video on the new features in Expression Web 3 If you are...

After an amazing week at the annual MGX conference for Microsoft’s sales and marketing ‘field’ – people like me who work in places like the UK rather than directly on products in Redmond – I made a subtle but important change to my browser – I flipped...

If you are a designer or developer that works with Microsoft technology (ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc) then this is a cracking offer from the guys over in the Microsoft Store – 40% off which means you can bag Expression Web (upgrade) for just under £60 for...

Stumbled across this great site with a tonne of examples built for Flash and Silverlight. It’s from Terence Tsang , who has 6 years Flash experience and 1 year in Silverlight. Examples include source code demonstrating effects, animation and 3D. If you...

I really enjoyed this video for 2 reasons: I’ve been talking about this ‘stuff’ for a while now in marketing meetings, and I am guilty of many of the comments in the video. My niece knows douchebag is a ‘naughty word’ and loves to tell people off when...

Continuing on from my previous post celebrating the launch of the UK Expression Newsletter I have another set of wallpapers to share with you. This time from the very talented Albinal.com A Meeting of the Minds Available in all sorts of resolutions. Grab...

This blog post is classified under OCD I have a few pet hates in life, and one of them is how messy cables can look going from my PC to my monitor! So, during #uksnow 2009 I took it upon myself to fix this issue once and for all. And decided to document...

Dell just announced a competition for students challenging them to come up with innovative ideas to solve global issues. It’s very similar to Microsoft’s Imagine Cup with the difference being that the IC is focused more on applying the technology to the...

My colleagues in the US created a tonne of great video training content for Microsoft Expression design tools. I think there are something like 28 videos in total. A good starting point if you haven’t used Expression before is to try the fundamentals...

The guys in the MSDN team are presenting a load of events on rich client technologies during February: Event Description Audience: Developers In this half-day session we’ll do a refresh of the technologies that we can use to build rich, interactive clients...

And my name ain’t Paris either. Nick Langley over at Computer Weekly has a great piece on how important Silverlight is in the RIA space for those with .NET skills. C# and ASP.Net web developers with Silverlight £28-40k Not bad eh? And if you fancy some...

Everyone else does one of these, so I couldn’t resist throwing my gadget and geek desires onto HTML/RSS. Flip Mino HD This little beauty is an HD video recording device. It would be cool to start capturing more and more video moments both personally ...

The nice people over at Content Master created their Christmas card with DeepZoom : Check out Merry Christmas from all at CM Group (HT to Kris )

Spotted this one on the DeepZoom blog   Kudos to Mark Dawson for this Check it out - Experimental Silverlight Photosynth Viewer

I’m still figuring out this space and caught this great article over on Think Vitamin posing 10 unanswered questions from the FOWD event in New York. The interesting part of the article is reading people’s responses in the comments section (46 at time...

I love working on Expression stuff, it gives me the opportunity to work with inspirational designers and developers who care about user experience and design in software. The launch of the Expression UK newsletter is to let you know about all the great...

Phizzpop winners from New York, Vector Form have worked with BMW to create this Microsoft Surface based car designer. Very nice indeed! Can’t wait to see some UK agencies and what they can achieve with WPF, Expression and Surface! (Via Engadget )

Sponsored by Codeplex (aka Microsoft and all things developer + cool + open sourcey) I love last.fm and it will be interesting to see what the ‘hackers’ come up with on Sunday 14 December at the Truman Brewery. I know there are going to be some of my...

The team over at microsoft.com/web put this short presentation up on SlideShare to explain what the Web Application Platform Installer is all about. Web Platform Installer – bits from IIS to tools to build web apps on Windows XP, Vista and Server Web...

Two very useful “uploader” wizards for Windows Live Photo Gallery for Facebook and YouTube . LiveUpload for Facebook (Beta) LiveUpload for YouTube (Beta) More goodness from CodePlex! (Hat tip to Sarah )

As part of the launch of the new Expression UK Newsletter (more on that soon!) Ben from Tricky Business has created this piece to provide something extra to newsletter readers. And going forward we'll look to commission similar creations for our readers...

On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day...

I am loving the new Xbox Live Experience . And the first thing everyone does when they update their console, I'm guessing, is spend ages creating their digital self as an avatar. Not sure that is too close to what I look like, but it's not a bad start...

I aspire to wear a white coat, just like these guys: How to explain Azure so that anyone can understand. Dom's post is pretty good for getting more information Now, I wonder if DPE UK (the area I work in Microsoft) could start a series of these in a CommonCraft...

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