The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009

It was 29th September 2005 , I posted on my old blog " AJAX is a one trick poney " (yes, it should be pony). Inside my rant you'll find the following snippet "..Content is king, and always will be but how does one access the content, thats the key deciding...

Windows Vista has a lot of new features, but one of them is when programs stop functioning a popup appears asking if you would like to find a resolution to the problem that was just caused. Typically in the earlier versions of Windows, you'd not get...

I thought I'd post a list of events I'll be attending this month, these are subject to change based on health etc but also I'm sure I'll uncover new ones as they are discovered. June 07 - ( Sydney ) WebJam Part 3, I'll be given a demo on Silverlight...

Disclaimer: This is part two of my Going Flex to Silverlight series, where I'll be talking about how one is able to transfer concepts they have learnt in Flex world but are looking to explore what Silverlight also has to offer. Whatever reason they have...

I was talking to a friend of mine this afternoon, whom was asking me a bunch of questions around Silverlight and how it related to his Flex Development (he's keen to take it out for a try). One thing that he did say that struck a chord with me and later...

I mentioned on Friday/Saturday that I decided to roll-up my sleeves and help out the iTraveller team with some coding issues they had in WPF (mostly just binding stuff). It was an interesting night to be had, everyone was stressed emotions were high and...

Vince Bonfanti is the President and co-founder of New Atlanta Communications, LLC - makers of BlueDragon a Coldfusion-compatible web application server that allows native deployment and integration of CFML applications onto ASP.NET and J2EE servers. He...

I'm currently sitting in with the team behind iTraveller.com.au , a WPF application that is being shipped locally here this week. It's down to the last hour(s) so to speak and everyone is tired, over worked, stressed and have taken Expression Blend (May...

Since I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment, due to a foot injury (I had my big toe's toenail ripped off), I decided to go nuts with a project I'm working on, called MossyVideo Player System Thingy which is built in Silverlight. Fig 1.0 (The...

Gaming companies have a tougher hurdle to beat then most line of business application (LOB) vendors, as you see gaming is something you do when you're not in front of the LOB applications or when not at school. As a result, you can't let things slide...

Last week I listened as Chuck explained Twitter to someone whom has never heard of it, and he essentially explained at as being a consolidated version of blogging. I however up until then would always explain twitter as being a disconnected version of...

Michael's been cooking up a lot of good things inside Silverlight, and recently has started to build his own "Office Ribbon" inside Silverlight (looks good). Not only that, he's got one of the coolest ideas going by combining Twitter and Mindmaps together...

John Allsopp just dropped me an email announcing the fourth Web Directions South in September 07. Here's the abstract: After tremendous recent success with Web Directions North in Vancouver, Canada, Australian web industry pioneers Maxine Sherrin and...

I was just talking to Ryan Stewart, whom has accepted a new role with Adobe , as one of their Evangelists headed up by Mike Downey (whom shifted into the owner of these roles earlier this month). I managed to unearth Guy Kawasaki 10 Commandments for...

I 've been using Popfly for a few weeks now and I'm loving it a lot, as it's got all the goodness of Web 2.0 and then some. What is Popfly to the untrained eye? Well this isn't the official wording, but to me it's a way in which folks will be able to...

APAC Sharepoint Conference 2007 , Sydney - I had the pleasure of attending/presenting at this conference and was absolutely amazed at the level of approach folks have taken within the APAC region with Sharepoint so far. One such company that caught my...

Lightmaker is one of my favourite RIA companies and have quite an impressive portfolio ranging from JK Rowling's infamous Flash Site through to Orlando Magic built in Silverlight . These folks are kicking some nice goals in the RIA space and are quite...

If you're in Brisbane, Australia on Thursday and have a dying need to understand how you go about building Windows Vista SideBar Gadget(s), I'll be running a workshop so to speak on how to build one. Here is the official blurb: Scott Barnes Developer...

Nick Hodge our resident " Professional Geek " has been playing around in the Silverlight Video space and came up with the brilliant idea of interviewing Monique & Frank on what More on Remix07 is all about. Nick also posts his experience in using...

I just read this over at Mike Harsh's blog Electric Rain recently announced a new product they're working on called Harmony. This app will take .swf files and convert them to XAML. This tool has the potential to help users with Flash assets ramp-up on...

I've been sitting here for the past few days really getting my head deeper into Silverlight and I'll post more example's of going from Flex to Silverlight later this week. I will however branch out a bit here and illustrate one nugget that I wish someone...

You have got to be kidding me if you say Microsoft aren't doing some cool crap this year, first Silverlight now Wireless controllers for Windows Vista . I'm typically a mouse man when it comes to 3D person shooters, it's something I've grown-up on since...

I found this little gem (via Ryan's blog, see his thoughts as well ), about how this Chris Messina thinks Mozilla could do more I guess is the end message around it all. It's interesting to watch or listen to his thoughts around this space, as at first...

Michael has setup a Tangler ReMIX07 discussion group and today was the first day I actually sat down and used this web application I've been hearing allot about. My first initial reaction to Tangler was " Oh gee, yet another Message Forum, just what the...

I've been using Silverlight since I got my grubby hands on it day #2 of Microsoft. In light of this for some reason I noticed that Silverlight Alpha 1.1 wouldn't install properly on one of my machines. After a few " Did you uninstall version 1.0? " style...