The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009

Dr. Egon Spengler : There's something very important I forgot to tell you. Dr. Scott Evangelist Barnes : What? Dr. Egon Spengler : Don't cross each brands technologies. Dr. Scott Evangelist Barnes : Why? Dr. Egon Spengler : It would be bad. Dr. Scott...

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp.'s search software will replace Google Inc.'s rival program on Lenovo Group Ltd. personal computers, a victory in Microsoft's fight against the dominant search company. The deal is exclusive for several years, Microsoft...

Brendan Eich (CTO Mozilla) put a great post up around " The Open Web and Its Adversaries " and its got some depth in the subject matter. I put my comment inline with his site so go visit if you want to read my thoughts on the matter (keep the discussion...

This is pretty cool: Amnesty™ Generator 0.6b - Easily convert millions of web widgets, games and videos – designed to live on home pages, blogs or MySpace – into gadgets for your Sidebar. If you like widgets on the web, you’ll love them on your Sidebar...

I've said in the past that I haven't alot of faith in today's browsers going forward as I think they have outlived their need and what I'd dare say is we need to realistically think about what can be done better in this space. It won't happen over night...

Ouch! is all I can say. Apparently an upcoming book from O`Reilly titled Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide has been leaked (Ryan's like the super sleuth, nothing gets passed him) on the Internet via torrents (which are evil and piracy is bad...

Since joining Microsoft I've heard Bills name in conversations with me so many times now that It's quite disturbing to be honest. In that, a lot of the time I get the " yeah well tell your buddy Bill... " or " ..When you next See Gates... " piecemeal...

I've only meet Joel twice now, first time was at my first preso gig for Microsoft (which I crashed and burned on) and second time was at BarCampSydney . Nick has put up a video intereview with Joel and had a pretty impressive chat. I must admit, prior...

You may think I've been a little to pre-occupied with Adobe and often wonder " what the hell has this to do with Microsoft ", well after reading a very interesting set of blog posts by Ted Leung , I've finally settled on an explanation : Here it is...

A friend of mine told me Dr Vinton Cerf is in town giving a few talks and what not. Anyway, I managed to get the last seat in town for his luncheon and so I'm looking forward to hearing what Google's Chief Internet Evangelist (I wonder if all us Evangelists...

I must admit, one comment from scoble last week did sit with me. He stated the following "...If you care about cross-platform (and if you are a Web developer, you do)..." This statement, although is out of context hit a nerve with me, as typically...

Colleague in crime and roving video guy ( Nick Hodge ) has put up a view videos on Youtube around BarCamp. You can check them out via this url: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1B3D2535A9FB4A28 I'm liking the whole camera approach to these kind...

Microsoft has put together Beginner Developer Learning Center , a great resource for all web developers of any language to either learn something new or approach it from a refreshing existin skillset context. I've been really impressed lately on how much...

BarCamp , an amazing encore from WebJam ! I must admit, I was reluctant to go to this simply because I was lazy but I'm so glad I did. This is a really cool approach to socialising ideas within the industry amongst some really talented individuals whom...

WebJam07 (Thur 1st March) was a total new experience for me as I've never been to one and I have to say, what a damn good idea. Essentially a presenter basically has 3 minutes to present on whatever it is they wish to do so and the crowd then votes for...

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is starting to become a state of nirvana, whereby everyone wants a piece of it and to add their fingerprints to it – that's not a bad thing – but what why does it exist and what defines RIA ? Jeremy Allaire in 2002...

Adobe is currently showing some folks how to go from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe FLEX in terms of workflow. This is a positive step for them as they are beginning to catch on that FLEX's limitations aren't in the language, but the actual development lifecycle...

Jeremy Cath , legendary aussie guy housed deep within the Microsoft HQ has posted on his blog something that may be of interest to the ambitous developer out there. Soon Microsoft will be in Australia interviewing interested and qualified candidates...

The talent behind infamous Frog have put together a SideBar Gadget that makes use of Adobe Flash. This is an awesome start and something I've wanted to see in the wild (I've seen others) and it just goes to show that SideBar Gadgets are quite agile...

I was asking internally today that it would be great to have some sort of accelerator key approach to bringing up the SideBar Gadgets when needed. I ask this as I'm one of these crazy users that actually uses the SideBar Gadget, but I get sick of hitting...

I've just spent basically a week now in Seattle, WA learning all there is to learn about Microsofts latest direction, offerings and what not. All I can say is, watch this space for more. That being said, I decided to break away for a small bit to check...

Seth Godin put up a post about how the execs at corp, weren't smiling in the WoW Campaign photo (pictured top) that made the Times. I get his point, but to be honest, it looks like they were listening to someone speak. If you saw me constantly smiling...

It's time to refresh the perspective of what Windows Vista means to the average web developer and designer of old. It's time to empower you all to blur the line between operating system level software and traditional client-side software. It's time to...

So Windows Vista and Office 2007 are off and running now. Why care? It's simple, the sleeping giant has awoken. I'm new to the Microsoft camp, I've sat in on the MS101 training camp, I've seen people within Microsoft and their approach to tasks...

I've been waiting for the DataGrid to show its face amongst the WPF community and now it has. Xceed has done a great job in providing folks the ability to have data grids housed inside WPF applications. I'm not entirely sure how they did it specifically...