The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009

I came to Microsoft roughly 7 months ago, and I kept hearing " Oh designers will love this " and " Developers will love that ", and for me this did at times irritate me. You see, I'm neither really at heart, and if were to choose one or the other, I'd...

Adobe's Mike Downey and I were throwing comments back and forth on twitter.com this morning, it was derived from Brad Becker (ex Flash Product guy @ Macromedia and now Microsoft staffer) post on RIA . Brad posted this a few months ago when JD @ Adobe...

The folks at Readify.com have formed a mailing list titled "OzSilverlight". It's something in which I'll obviously be heavily involved if as life in the realms of Silverlight continue. It's gotten off to a great initial start and if you want...

I get a lot of emails about how one should approach Silverlight and whether they should hold off until the control/layout frameworks are feature complete. My answer is simple, focus on what you have today as it will be something in which if you invest...

I stumbled upon Scoble's post around how great it was to see Ryan Stewart being agnostic in terms of praising Silverlight via his blog. I guess I didn't really pay attention to this, as Ryan's always been one of these guys that generally has a great pulse...

It's been a while since I last updated my blog but this is what has happened since I last posted: My Role within Microsoft just became much clearer, in that I have a renewed focus on what I am to achieve in the upcoming fiscal year and ideas on how to...

If you've attended some of my presentations on Silverlight lately, you would see a main theme arise, it's called "Choice". Ever since starting with Microsoft, I've been deflecting, dodging even fighting with the Adobe brand over Microsoft's offerings...

I'm finally back on deck after a week out on the road, and after spending a few days in Perth I've settled on the fact that this city is piping hot when it comes to the interweb. I must admit, it was my first time in Perth and I jokingly expected to see...