One of my favourite music sites, Last.fm , has been bought by a US media company , CBS, for £140m ($280m). This is fantastic news for a number of reasons: they are a UK start-up and have great personality to boot; and they have some really cool software...

I was talking to my new teammate, the honorable Dr. Andrew Sithers (not sure if he honorable or not, but thought it sounded good), about Silverlight and it's ability to harness the power of dynamic languages inside Silverlight 1.1 (the one with .NET in...

Back in January the team hit the road for a week long series of presentations at software companies and user groups talking about the highlights of the Vista and Office developer launch. One of the highlights of the trip was an evening presentation at...

It's finally public knowledge, that I am moving away from pure evangelism (yeap, that's my job title!) and over to marketing! I currently spend a lot of time deep in technology (primarily Silverlight and WPF ) coding, learning it and talking about it...

Bill Reiss, an XNA/DirectX MVP , has ported his Dr Popper game (like Bubblebreaker on Windows Mobile devices) from XNA over to Silverlight 1.1. Now I can waste hours trying to get a high score on my browser on any platform as well on a mobile device,...

I thought it was too weird/funny not to post about. I was presenting yesterday on Silverlight to a group of about 100 developers attending under the MSDN umbrella . Unfortunately, I had come down with a pretty dodgy virus which meant I wasn't really on...

Ian Moulster has the scoop on WindowsClient.net launching - it is a new site focused at developers working on rich client applications (run on desktop). It's a really nice site that combines the two worlds of WinForms and Windows Presentation Foundation...

I didn't expect to see this kind of stuff demo-ed so soon after the Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 announcements but Loke has the scoop with a video demo with Product Unit Manager Scott Holden: Prototype video of Silverlight and Windows Mobile Worth a watch...

Ian Blackburn , here in the UK, has created a Mindmap to help developers, designers, etc understand and find their way around all the Silverlight resources and information out there. Really easy to understand and see the network of sites popping up and...

In my old job, I used to spend a lot of time talking to academics about curriculum development covering a number of subject areas. Unfortunately, WPF was never really on the agenda due to timing and it being a beta product - now that it is prime time...

During Scott Guthrie's keynote demo, he coded up a cool airline demo using Silverlight (you know the one, where he debugged and ran it on a Mac!!). Well, less than 24 hours after the guys that wrote it have a great post, demo site and *source code* available...

I'm still not out in Vegas but am enjoying all the great stuff coming out around Silverlight (especially the 1.1 release). Rob Burke has a great diagram detailing everything that is in Silverlight 1.1. I had a bit of a head start in getting my head around...

With all the big announcements from Mix yesterday (I've been catching up throughout the day on the keynote and demos shown) I thought it would be worthwhile pulling a post together to help people get started. Viewing Silverlight content Download Silverlight...