The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009

I stumbled upon AdvertBoy's blog tonight and I'm impressed with his approach in using Silverlight. He impresses me because he's looking around at what he see's as being "Cool" and then tries to emulate this via Silverlight. This is a good thing...

I've been playing around with masking and trying to think up new ways to approach the axis in which Silverlight can play. In this demo, my approach was to see how I could put in a fake 3D (2D) room with two walls playing video on them, along with reflections...

Nectarine have put up Part #2 of the infamous RIA saga, " Barely Out of Beta ". I think it's fitting given after reading about Adobe staffer's latest nit picking over definitions that Microsoft use. "...(I was really tempted to have a ragged...

This just fascinates me and warrants a blog post. My son, Corey just turned 4 in July has been busy, as you see he's a mad baseball fan like me and was caught today surfing the MLB.com un attended. I walked out of my office to make a cup of coffee, I...

Brian H. Madsen (Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP/ASP.Net) has put together a cool group called "CSharpZealot" both on Facebook and via his site. To kick off this group, he's found a way to put a competition together where all you have to...

Minty (Nectarine.com.au, makers of infamous funny Flash animated cartoons ) just sent me an email letting me know one  of what will be many comic strips centered around the online web is now online. I think the first one is brilliant especially since...

Context is when you look at a situation from a perspective and generally fall into a predefined segment. In that, if I look at say Microsoft Word, my context of use is to read a document - yet others may use word to construct a document. So different...

The Story (Context) I used to work for a Rail company, and outside my office was the main concourse for our "Central" station. On this platform was a coffee shop, which basically takes up around 10m x 6m of real-estate right next to the exit gates (i...

Silverlight's announcement recently caught headlines, in that it's release and partnership with Novell to ensure delivery of Silverlight via Linux is supported. This in turn underpins the notion that in order to have a successful RIA (Rich Interactive...

I read this from Read/WriteWeb , it was a quote given by Dick Costello , (co-founder of FeedBurner, which Google acquired this year). "Pay careful attention to the things that people do with your technology/service/product, because some of them may have...

I'm always amused online when I see the usual Adobe vs Microsoft rant, it always ends up in someone fighting with the author or rogue commenter's shooting shots from the side, echoing the same points. There is hope though in this battle royale, as you...

I could rant about why this is important and add my own commentary around why it's probably one of the boldest moves Microsoft has made, but you'll no doubt be reading a lot of this from others on the interweb. I will say, that RIA is a concept best...

It's funny how you sometimes take something so simple for granted until you one day suddenly realise the answer has been staring you in the face all along. JavaScript is that answer,it's now become this language widely used, mostly understood and pushed...

Sitting in a conference ( WebOnThePiste.com ) here in New Zealand, reflecting on my previous day where Nigel Parker (NZ) and I were invited to be apart of a Panel discussion with our Australian Adobe colleagues on "RIA & The Future". I wish it...