I picked this one up from the MSDN Blogsphere (sorry to echo back to MSDN`ers) By default, the AJAX Control Toolkit's AutoComplete extender doesn't have a notion of "words" and will try to auto-complete whatever text is currently in the text box, treating...

Brisbane, Australia - March 31 . A geek sits in a dark room, rocking back and forth snapping at any whom dare try and have a conversation with him. You see, this geek's name is Scott Barnes and he is what we typically call a "Google Addict" a poor twisted...

I got a request tonight for someone to be added to my LinkedIn.com list(s), given that I don't really use it that much I decided to login and see what's happening with this concept. So far, nothing new and to be openly honest I've given up on the concept...

Scrapblog is a simple concept but well executed, it essentially empowers end-users to create their own scrapbook page combining a lot of media elements and pieces overall. The client itself is built using Adobe FLEX, and it showcases the hidden power...

I was meeting a dev in the Microsoft space for coffee just before and he was asking me a bunch of questions around how we are handling the whole Vista hype and especially how WPF/e and X-Platform discussions are arising here and there (yes Adobe Apollo...

I've just been chatting to Mark Piller (CEO) of The Midnight Coders and makers of WebORB , which is a great product I saw in Seattle on my last visit . At anyrate, Mark has been showing me some of the upcoming new features around WebORB going forward...

Fellow Brisbane Evangelist, Chuck Sterling has a really surreal sense of humor. Since he's going to drive from Brisbane to well, the southern parts of Australia in the next couple of weeks that he'd essentially let all follow his travels ( thanks to Power...

I'm no analyst by any stretch, but I was playing around with Indeed.com and noticed some interesting results on job trends overall. I decided to put in WPF , AJAX , WPF/e , FLEX , Apollo , ASP , Coldfusion and Php to see what the results would yield....

I'll be demoing alongside shane on a must see roadshow titled " The Age of UXE ", sprouting forth the good gospel of how to introduce Microsoft's strategy around UXE in the wild while at the same time, whip up some demo's on WPF, WPF/e and Expression...

Ok, so couple of the Adobe guys got all wound up over my previous post about " welcome to the browser market ", as they don't want the notion that Apollo only exist as a browser out there ( fear of being typecast as a one-trick pony, which is perfectly...

You know this job really gets under my skin, Microsoft are making me go to MIX07 where I'll be forced to jump on a plane, and head deep into Vegas on their dime. I'm outraged, I mean next thing you know I'll have to spend time watching the Pussycat Dolls...

I sat in last week on the Aussie National User Group (@WebDU) meeting and I asked ( well attempted to but screwed the question up ) "How Adobe will handle the PR messaging around Apollo being regarded as a browser, given that their official wording on...

I was talking to TechReady buddy of mine, Andrew Shorten ( ex Flex Evangelist , now Microsoft guy) and he mentioned Sean Corfield of Adobe has left . At first I was shocked and read his blog, and can now see that Sean is one of these engineering types...

We here at Microsoft Australia, have it tough and last Friday was a hell of a day. We were forced onto a yacht and told to sail around Sydney harbour and some of us didn't make it. Sadly, Shanemo couldn't find his Sea legs and I'm guessing the previous...

I've been thinking a lot lately about this whole Web 2.0 thing, especially around the emerging technologies from Microsoft, Adobe and Google (I could mention more, but these have the main primitives for starters). A few folks committed at WebDU: " Barnesy...

I've made some wise cracks about WebDU today and got a few chuckles from my friends within MSN Messenger. I made a joke about how at times I wasn't sure WebDU was about the products or was it about Adobe Employee appreciation week ( i.e. WebDU has a lot...

I was on my lunch time ritual today, and I noticed inside Boost Juice they have a TV in the top corner, which essentially has advertising and news playing over and over. I initially thought it was brilliant, as not only does it have advertising, but it...

I happened to catch parts of Joseph Cooney's presentation a month or so ago on WPF ( Building A Real World WPF Application ), and I was amazed at how deep in terms of knowledge this guy has around the product(s). Joseph has managed to put his money where...

I noticed our US User Experience Evangelist, Chris Bernard (whom I had the pleasure of getting drunk with in Seattle) has been blogging away. At anyrate, I thought I'd do a catchup and read his posts and the ones that really hit home with me are the posts...

I've been seeing the word "mashup" more and more online these days and I thought I got it until today. I watched YouTube " Angry German Kid " - which is damn funny - only I also noticed how folks would put their own commentary over the top of it and more...

WebDU was a blast, I managed to survive WebJAM ( Adobe decided to pull the projector plug out mid-presentation, which was funny but I managed to recover and win the crowd over, so back at you Adobe hehe ). I enjoyed the drinks that Microsoft put on, I...

Sadly folks Microsoft can't be at WebDU in the way we have done in the previous rounds of this conference, due to Adobe Oz not feeling comfortable with the big ol MS logo being in the same room as them. That being said, we are putting on some drinks in...

I'm hooked, this little Web 2.0 piece of goodness has got me suckered in and it just goes to show that there is way forward in terms of web-based gadgets interacting with even concepts like SideBar Gadgets . You see, I do majority of my Twitterererering...

Ted Patrick (Adobe) posted his scorecard on a mixture of current and upcoming web based offerings and how they stack in terms of Rich and Reach. Others (myself included) disagree with the results as they kind of are skewed more towards Adobe's favor then...

I'm checking out hight3ch.com's gadgets right, and I stumbled up on this little fined. It's a JetSki with wheels! I have to have one of these before I die or die riding it at the very least. How cool is this! I ride Dirtbikes when not ranting and raving...