Just got this video from the UK winners of the Imagine Cup Software Design finalists talking about the journey to Korea . The guys have just been out in Seattle at an exclusive event with the man himself, Mr Bill Gates. There will be a wider event...

I do have some on the way on our MSDN UK Nuggets site but in the mean time check out this very slick site talking about Blend and Silverlight NibblesTutorials.net (site nav is SL as well, looks cool!)

Ian Moulster has the skinny on Mix UK on 11/12 September - it is going to be a brilliant event for web developers and designers looking at the next generation web with technologies like ASP.NET, Ajax, Silverlight and beyond to WPF on the desktop. I have...

PCWorld named Popfly as one of it's top 25 websites to watch and I guess is #1 as it's right at the top of the list! Here's the blurb on what PCWorld have to say: "If you haven't already discovered the world of mashups, Microsoft's Popfly is a good place...

You have one of those days when demos don't work perfectly and today was one of them. Thankfully all the slides and demos are available for you to download and working perfectly (some of the issues were to down to my machine playing up which you won't...

If any of you have followed this blog since its inception you will know that I have spent the last 9 months or so with a Macbook Pro as my main developer machine for presenting and talking about WPF and Silverlight. And since my move to marketing I've...

Sean Alexander posted that Silvelright is now on Microsoft.com promoting the very cool new product Microsoft Surface . Last time Silverlight was used was to promote the Xbox 360 Elite just after Mix in April. It is worth pointing this out for a couple...

A lot of nice kit thanks to Expansys . We will be using these next year for work with influential students and faculty. There was that kid at Christmas moment when the post guy in work delivered them to my desk and I had a massive grin on my face for...

One of the questions I get asked most when talking about Windows Presentation Foundation is around whether this technology is just for 'whizz bang fancy pants graphics stuff' (I'm paraphrasing) and not really for serious business type apps. The answer...

As Martin and Mike have both blogged about, the last re-run of this year's MSDN Roadshow took place on Monday in London. It was a nice venue and good crowd so fun for all the team to end on a high. Like Martin and the Windows Live content, the content...

I remember when Slide 5 happened a couple of years ago and it was all about mobile stuff led by Rob Miles . Well, it's back again and called Slide 7 and being organised by our very own Ed Dunhill (just started blogging, we'll forgive the crazy messenger...

I'm handing my Macbook Pro back to my manager as I've changed jobs and will be doing less stuff focused on Silverlight - am getting a nice replacement though so it's all good :-). I would like to say that I had insider secrets that Apple were going to...

Gavin Gear has posted a sample on his blog of how to get Silverlight content into Vista's sidebar and on top of that place ink support using the Ink functionality in Silverlight . How To: Create an Ink-Enabled Sidebar Gadget Using Silverlight

On the 26th and 27th June, in Kidderminster we will be hosting UK academics interested in understanding the Microsoft developer platform from the ground up to the latest innovations in languages and Windows/Web technologies. The great news is we managed...

This isn't really for my regular readers but for the main MSDN feed I guess as it's in Amsterdam but on 15th June Dino Esposito of ASP.NET and Ajax fame is running an Ajax workshop on the back of the Microsoft Dev Days event. He dropped me a mail about...