I've been a busy little Microsoftee and have done a lot of interviews over the past few months with folks from all walks of life. I'm about to go live very soon with a project. What's the project? not telling until it's finished. I will give you a teaser...

At times we have some pretty unique roles that appear on the radar, but Duncan Mackenzie just told me of a position vacant in his team. The position is for an SDE and essentially the role is geared towards helping work on the next generation of features...

I stumbled upon a post by Chad Campbell via my RSS reads (244 down, 9398 to go) and I enjoyed reading Chad's passion and insight into what he's thoughts are about the Silverlight 2.0 journey ahead. Chad has also written or is writing a book on Silverlight...

I was mucking about in YouTube today (smacks for me and not doing work) and I came across a project being built at MIT. This project allows folks to draw a physics based diagram which then comes to life on what appears to be a homemade (MIT style) "Smart...

I read an interesting post this morning on how the author wanted folks to consider the 800px resolution for their designs. He cites that although he has a large resolution, it doesn't mean that he's not also using other applications at the same time....

Why did the media feel Macworld was flat this year? Why does Steve Jobs present so well, Why do people want Silverlight to succeed over Flash, why do people believe OSX is better than Windows Vista, why does Windows Vista sell so well? Why does... The...

12:33 AM and I'm currently putting together my power point deck for an upcoming internal conference (Seattle - February 4th - 15th). I typically like to use as many visuals as possible, as I've sort of decided that I'd prefer all my presentations going...

Two guys at Microsoft that I'll be meeting in a couple of weeks have done a great blogcast over at " The Signal ". In this cast they remove what I call the " fog of war " away from not just Expression Web but Microsoft's focus overall...

Answer: No. Silverlight does not have offline database support neither does Flash. The offline database support is most likely a confusion between Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Silverlight however does have what I call "uber cookies" (yes...

How about this, you redesign the visitmix.com site with some CSS goodness and if our judges think you have the best talent / flair for the job, we'll give you free admission to MIX08 (Las Vegas) and accommodation at the Venetian hotel as well as - $1000...

Tonight, I found via twitter a deck from Plaxo’s Joseph Smarr . In this deck he talks about the war injuries he received in heading down the AJAX route. It’s a great deck and worth checking out but what I liked the most about it, was that...

I see at times comments left on forums from folks whom have a beef with Microsoft that we don't innovate. One could respond with the things we do right or you could take a page out of Nigel Parker's book and simply put video where our keyboard is. Nigel...

NOTE: Brand Politics mostly (Adobe are offended). If it's not your cup of tea, move on ;) Yesterdays post has sparked an initial debate on my approach to the AIR + Command Proxy and how we believe it has security concerns associated to it. The original...

Whom of you fellow ASP.NET folks out there has a blogging solution that trumps Wordpress in terms of features and modules. I'm curious to see what kind of blogging engines exist in the .NET side of things as for me, personally I have always felt that...

I read the post of both Ryan Stewart and Mike "Mesh" Chambers on a bold plan to connect Adobe AIR with a .NET Proxy (Proof of concept anyway). At first It was a great story and I for one was thinking to myself "hey this could be a sweet...

Last year I spent a great deal of time studying research papers, articles, bloggers, anything related at all to RIA. I did this as being a RIA Evangelist for Microsoft It was important that I not only understand my audience but also what motivates them...

I'll cut to the chase on this one. Seem's Mike Downey at Adobe suffers from Silverlight related issues whenever there is what I'd call an "Adobe Compete" situation (positive story around Silverlight or Flash). I accept the notion that maybe...

That's it, I'm officially over it. I blame the Super Wall for death by a thousands cut ending. Seriously, Facebook is a great potential for success and ultimate failure in one mouthful, in that if Facebook were to fall it could cause a cascading demise...

I've been in a few startups, I owe my house to one successful streak and so when I spend time with folks in today's "Startup" way of life I can't but help get itchy feet at times. I have no real intentions of leaving Microsoft any time soon...

Every now and then some goodness comes across my inbox and this product is shaping up to becoming a must-have tool for me. It's called Xobni and it's focus is purely on giving me statistics etc around people with whom I interact via email. Internally...

I was meeting a customer this week and he was telling me about how impressed he was with our Partner Dinner in December 2007. He asked why I didn't blog about how to become a Microsoft Partner specifically in the web space? I rejected that as I stated...

“..I’ve got this idea, and it’s a way to do a job that is better than what YouTube does today..” is usually an opening line I receive a lot (not word for word, but the meaning is there). Silverlight can enable you to do many powerful...

When you first type in http://labs.cynergysystems.com you are presented with a matrix style decision. On the left you have the red pill whilst on the right you have the blue pill. This one screen summarises Cynergy Systems really well, as it shows this...

Like most technology bloggers today, I also will take a stab at a prediction for 2008. The prediction is simple; this will be the year that we engage in discussion around devices and RIA. State of Play Devices are getting smarter, more usable and most...

An anonymous message via my MSN Messenger housed within the blog gave me this URL. It appears to be Deep Linking within Silverlight. I must confess I'm not a fan of the concept of Deep linking in RIA's, as for me the concept just goes against the grain...