The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009

I was wondering on why I got a sudden wave of hot winded comments around "Microsoft is evil, empire must fall blah blah" style comments and noticed Adobe's Ryan Stewart jumped into the mix. Focus on the man, not the point. Ryan's built a career on...

In my Silverlight travels, I was thinking on how one is able to animate a "PullDown" menu, in that it comes down and then goes back up upon triggered events. Approach A. I decided to approach this using simplistic rules, where I'd create two...

Today I did something bold, irresponsible and costly - I, a Microsoft Employee bought an iMac. The reason I did this was mostly due to two things: All my creative friends kept saying "Man I can't live without my mac, don't know how you survive dude...

I get this a lot, and most think I'm just annoying Adobe by using the word "Interactive" instead of "Internet". I think I've already covered this discussion in fragments but thought I'd do it one last time to cement my reasons once and for all. Internet...

No doubt you've seen the Prism announcement by Mozilla. Quite an interesting move in this chess game we call "The Software Industry". Personally, I'm not sure what the end game for Mozilla is anymore and I'm sure If I look hard enough I'll find...

I have an Icon fetish that is disturbingly wrong. In that I collect them, horde them and will happily spend Microsoft's good hard earned money on as many of them as I can find - if allowed. Yet, what makes Icon's so special? in that why do they enhance...

Flickr and Picnik have teamed up to do something around online photo imagery. All the best to them and I'm sure it will be an exciting marriage in the end. However, I look at this and like many others are starting to see patterns emerge, and this is going...

I just finished a blog post by James Ward (by far the best Evangelist Adobe have today) and it was a bloody good post, so much so, it helped me formulate this post (inspiration can come from many things I guess). “I was a young man with uninformed...

There are many things that make up a RIA today. I posted last week about Interactive vs Internet, and I think it's played out enough. Personally my conclusion is to let the "I" be silent, and it could be "Information, Interactive, Internet...

They say a picture speaks a thousands words. In this case, I find it tongue in cheek that Adobe's CEO Bruce Chizen got up on stage, labeled Microsoft as a "monopoly" in one breath, then talked about how great the Adobe products in another whilst...

Finally it's now online. The Silverlight folks have redesigned the showcase section of the site and it's purty. You can get the scoop on the story behind it at blog.lookorfeel.com The previous Showcase had reached its breaking point and wasn’t...

I got a question the other day that kind of threw me. In that, someone asked if we were going to do a Silverlight version of AIR. That's something you'd probably need to ask the executive folks around Silverlight (I'm just a guy whom uses the product...

David L. Campbell via OzSilverlight mailing list ( all the kids hang out here ) have put forward a concept around taking a facon bacon 3D animation and putting into Silverlight via a workflow I hadn't even began to think of. Their approach is quite simple...

Last week I was at the Web Directions South 07 Conference . It was a blast and learnt a lot from our customers and non-customers in the field. It was the closing party and I was asked a simple question around "AIR" - in that " What's Microsoft...

A while back I posted about how I used our AJAX Control Toolkit to animate with Silverlight . I stated that the end reason for this approach was simply due to lack of animation capabilities within Silverlight 1.0. Michael Scherotter being the brilliant...

I got an email the other day, by Netikatech.com in which they announced a "Powerpoint Like Demo". "...The interface of this demo is very close to the well known MS PowerPoint application. It is possible to move the pictures, edit the text...

Michael S. Scherotter (Synergist) and resident Silverlight guru, has put his money where his mouth is and created a webinar around " Using Web Analytics with Silverlight ". It's going to be a compelling discussion, as he's essentially showing...

I was browsing the web and I stumbled upon " ChoreWars ". A brilliant concept, whereby parents can set chores for their kids and they in return earn experience points (XP). I look at this solution and not only do I applaud it's approach, but...

One tag, yet so powerful in so many ways is the <A> tag found within the old skool language, HTML. It can do a lot of things to a lot of ideas and at the same time can amplify a lone voice to inspire thousands - or - annoy the hell out of thousands...

If you've managed to walk away from the blogsphere, the usual Tech writers have written about BuzzWord and how Adobe has acquired them. The main reason they write about this is, well it hints at an Office doomsday signal. It really doesn't in the end...

I'm knee deep in Apple love at the moment and today I got the ok to buy a Macbook Pro to replace my sucky Toshiba Tablet (it's gotten worse). In light of this, I thought I better put some of that ROI promises to good use but at the same time, thought...

In the past few weeks, a few things have risen to the top of a lot of agendas, emotion. An emotional bond with something is hard to discuss out loud, as at times most don't know they have an emotional bond or chose to ignore it, brush it aside as being...