Just in case you haven’t realised by the big “images” above, that I’ve now moved over to RIAGENIC.com Click here: http://www.riagenic.com I’ve enjoyed my life at Microsoft Australia and Headquarters and look forward to heading back home to Australia,...

Some internal staff and trusted close friends have known for some time, but I’ve resigned from Microsoft as a Rich Platforms Product Manager. It was a decision that i made simply due to the fact that I just wanted to be home, and as much as the experience...

  How many kettles have you owned over the years? is it more than one? has it always been the same one? It’s a pretty straight forward device, you fill it up with water, it heats up and then you tip the contents out into a container. Why then are...

Hi All, I've noticed a few occasions where developers have wanted to know what Version of Silverlight is installed on the end users computer when they arrive at a site. There are a number of ways you can approach that question that will yield a response...

I often meet up with a co-worker (Michael Bach, Product Manger & Designer for Microsoft.com/Web ) and we talk all things design. As it for us is therapy given we are constantly surrounded by engineers within Microsoft :) One insight Michael came up...

I recently found a site via a colleague today, which basically outlines the way in which we approach our customers/consumers via the web compared to Apple.com [ Click here to view the post ] At first I just simply groaned, and waited for the beating,...

I’ve been working in this industry since i left high school back in 1995, and I often think about my journey to date and how I've adopted a technology. I then as a Product Manager on the Silverlight Team constantly try and put myself in you, the adoptee...

If you’ve read any book on design patterns, prospective memory is bound to come up. A lot of folks may read it and go “ahh, nah, i don’t know what to do with that” and i state this as i constantly wonder as to why applications continue to hassle users...

You can stare at that blinking cursor inside Visual Studio all you want, it’s not going to give you an immediate insight into how you should architect your Silverlight solution so that it can be reusable and scale. It’s not that you’re an idiot or aren...

In the past month if you’ve interacted with via twitter, email, facebook etc you’ve probably been asked by me “How many sites do you visit a week”. I only ask is that I've got this theory or ill feeling that we at Microsoft are making far too many websites...

I often in my travels visit customers who at times present a behavior that at times i can only describe as blind faith towards Microsoft. I’m somewhat unnerved by that and it’s not because i think Microsoft isn’t worthy of faith, it’s more a long the...

As most would imagine, here at Microsoft we are constantly researching various ways folks adopt Silverlight and have quite a large amount of notes on the subject. I however love the old, “Why not just ask them?” approach, so I’d be curious to see how...

It’s now 2:25 AM here in Seattle, and I’m of course Jet Lagged with a head cold. I figured what a perfect time to update my blog with a big thank you to all who turned out to see me in my Australia wide tour. I met a whole bunch of you folks from all...

I have been away from Australia for about a a year now, and I came home the other night and noticed the intersection outside my old house has changed significantly. I thought wow, progress is a beast that never rests. Taped to one of the stop light poles...

I’ve just locked in my dates for the Australian Silverlight & Expression 3 Tour. Session Details: Silverlight & Expression 3 launch is an important moment in Microsoft's timeline, as this is our V3 moment!. In light of this point in time, Scott...

Shane Morris , who for the few left that don’t know is one of our User Experience Evangelists in Australia. Shane’s actually got a deep background in Usability and is a lot of his fingerprints on our upcoming release of Expression Blend – Sketchflow....

A lot of the time folks write off Apple customers as simply being MacTards , fans that are so pre-occupied with Apple and less about the products they make. In part that can be true, I’ve meet some extreme ignorant fans, but in general that’s not true...

I just finished watching an Interview Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow put together around UI’s for the movie industry. It occurred to me tonight that I did an interview with the great Mark Coleran in Jan 2008 but never published it!. To help carry this...

In my daily life here in the land of Microsoft Headquarters, I often interact with a whole variety of developers & designers from many places both local and far. I was talking in the hallway the other day with one of the guys in the Windows Azure...

Alex Knight a fellow Aussie, has kicked off an online site focused purely on helping designers navigate the trouble waters of Silverlight . http://www.silverzine.com To quote: There is plenty of sites out there dedicated to developers and code related...

As someone whom frequently watches a lot of Video tutorials from all walks of life, I often sit in front of the screen cursing at the author’s ability to waffle on in areas that are irrelevant or tap into my time. The objective of a video tutorial is...

I often see a lot of the Adobe communities rant and rave ignorance about how Microsoft follows' Adobe’s every move, like some how they’ve got it all figured out. vs The reality is that majority of the time, Microsoft was the first to make the move, sadly...

I’ve just uploaded one of the first revisions of the new blog design to team.silverlighet.net . It’s a more focused design this time and one in which i had the luxury of spending more time on than the one before. In this post I’ll walk through some of...

Interesting night for me, as I’ve spent the last 4 hours fumbling around in the Google dark trying to find a way to take “comments” for the team.silverlight blog, sanitize them but preserve their natural format in which the user typed them. In that for...

It must be my lucky day, but Dave Wolf from Cynergy Systems just emailed me the URL for an interview I did with him on the industry specifically focused on the challenges in RIA overall. Yes, it’s funny a Product Manager of Silverlight doing an interview...