I'm getting my presentation together for Perth BarCamp tomorrow, and in my assembly of this awesome presentation I stumbled upon the Wikipedia for Silverlight. It has the usual guff around what it is, where it come from and so on, but one thing that stood...

I've been thinking of what to say around our first ReMIX , and the one thing I can settle on was that it was fun. I got to speak with a lot of folks whom are very keen to takeup the Expression Studio world and see what it can do, and aren't afraid to...

I arrived in Perth last night and spent most of this afternoon walking around for a bit of a wonder, to check out the CBD and try and absorb as much of Perth as I can (First time here). I also had the pleasure of meeting up with some of the local User...

Twitter.com is one of these amazing creations that get's away with a lot, namely its constant crashing or going offline whenever I'm the most bored. At the moment, I'm busy installing the never-ending cycle of World of Warcraft Patches (I re-installed...

I'm going back through a few emails I received when I first started with Microsoft, with "Where can I get training on WPF". Chuck has organized a FREE day of training to any or whom want to attend, provided you can donate from $1 - whatever you want to...

In my role, I've encountered a lot of interesting behavior associated to the brand. I find it scary in some parts but also interesting in others. I've got friends whom I've known for 5+ years suddenly refer to me "you guys" when talking about Microsoft...

I've noticed Wynapse.com has linked back to this blog on a number of occasions, and me being the curious type that I am decided to take a look at this blog. It's one of the best community resources for Silverlight out there at the moment and I for one...

In Brisbane office today, and noticed our new "Hosting Evangelist" Jorke, was on deck today. I said my congrats and all and proceeded to log in for the day, only Outlook when first booting up just kept spinning in cycles and was getting unresponsive....

Australia, Readify has announced it will begin training courses for folks to learn Silverlight in under 3 days. This is exciting news as I can't tell you the amount of times I've been asked to "Teach" someone how to code Silverlight. Sorry, I just don...

It's been 6 months since I joined Microsoft and I love my job, truly I do as I get to interact with the web community whom are energizing to say the least. My role is "Web Developer Evangelist", which essentially means that I'm here to be your tour guide...

I'm racing against the clock, getting stuff ready for the next 2-3 weeks of events etc, and there's a reason why my twitters are low. First up, this Wednesday night, I'm walking into the Brisbane Flash Platform User Group den to give a rant on Silverlight...

In my Silverlight coding travels, I've found the urgent need to carry out a hitTest to determine where my end-users mouse is currently located but also what elements are underneath it within Silverlight. So what's a hitTest you ask? well essentially it...

It's getting closer to ReMIX Downunder, and I for one can't wait to see the local and international Microsoft magic being showcased to my fellow aussies (NZ etc folks welcome aswell). WebJam.com.au folks are also going to be running another of their event...

I get asked a lot on " how I find the time to keep up with all of this crap " (crap=web stuff). I really don't have one specific answer, except I am fortunate to have the ability of skim reading as one of my skill sets. I can polish off a book in 3xToilet...

Angus Logan ( aka Oz Sharepoint Demi-God ) has been targeted for upgrades, and thus has been uploaded to Redmond. Geeky words aside, Angus has been I guess promoted , to becoming the new Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform Team . This...

It's been an interesting couple of days for me, as I've meet some developers in both business meeting setting and via social setting (aka WebJam ). In my chats with these developers, they all seem very keen to learn more about Silverlight but have hesitations...

I'm mid-way through a Silverlight application I'm writing called " MossyVideo Player ". In the design of my application, I am making use of Icons to represent navigational elements that whilst aren't 100% relevant to the task, they are however close....

It's interesting to see folks I've meet online flood my IM's, Email Accounts etc with "Did you see Google Gears, how cool is this!!" I got the same reaction from JavaFX, Apollo, Silverlight and so on. I often look at these things with one eye brow raised...