The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009

I asked all for this last time , but I'm going to do it again now that you've all seen Silverlight 2 (well if you haven't do so!). Feel free to leave your wishlist(s) for Silverlight 3 and don't be afraid to ask for crazy stuff either  example "Can...

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...

Our team decided a while back to bring a fresh new look to the .NET logo, given the old was in need of a refresh to suit our future product positioning (I've been staring at this for a few weeks now and it's totally grown on me). Why did we do it? We...

In Microsoft we have a few bets on whom are the likely candidates who build RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) and what stimulates this behavior. It's a fluid demographic to pin down to be honest as typically speaking it's so new and foreign in many...

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...

A few days ago I blogged about how I'm seeing Silverlight 3.0 wishlist (s) popping up all over the interweb for the end of year celebrations. At any point, I've been given the task of aggregating this data to hand off to folks within the Silverlight Team...

Ok, I've read about the 9th "I wish Microsoft would.." style blog post floating around on what folks want in 2008 for Silverlight/WPF. I think this is healthy and I'd love to see what folks would like for Silverlight 3.0 (Doubtful you'll get...

I've managed to worm my way into Microsoft Corp HQ, as a Product Manager (PM) on the Rich Client Platform team ( Silverlight/WPF etc ). This for me is a major step forward in my career, as whilst I've enjoyed being one of the first RIA Evangelist for...

A lot of the time folks write off Apple customers as simply being MacTards , fans that are so pre-occupied with Apple and less about the products they make. In part that can be true, I’ve meet some extreme ignorant fans, but in general that’s not true...

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...

Ok, firstly, I hate the term "Flash Killer" as it just sends all the wrong messages about SilverLight. Secondly, read the news articles first before you start any rants about how Adobe will kick our butts or crap like that. Microsoft will reveal new technology...

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...

  Introduction. In today’s .NET ecosystem you the customer are basically digesting a lot of our new wave of products, and the on ramping can be at times a bumpy ride. As typically the products are isolated in various pockets on Microsoft.com...

It's been an extremely interesting past week. I and a few of my colleagues decided to check out the Adobe MAX 2008 conference to see what the other side has to say about the future of the web (much like their folks come to MIX conferences). I've got...

I'm such a geek, yet I found the experience of twittering my daughters birth to be actually quite fun in a unique way. The reason being was that I was going through an experience that all expecting fathers go through, where we are essentially playing...

I couldn't think of a catchy title, so I went with the above (its late, and I'm in a silly mood). So, I've been tinkering around in SideBar Gadget Land during breaks between my Microsoft Induction training(s) and am amazed each time I dig deeper as...

In 2002 one of the guys ( Jeremy Allaire) whom I owe my house & lifestyle to, came up with an idea that Rich Internet Applications (RIA) should exist in a certain way, with a certain direction going forward. I trusted his idea, as the last one was...

Windows Vista has a lot of new features, but one of them is when programs stop functioning a popup appears asking if you would like to find a resolution to the problem that was just caused. Typically in the earlier versions of Windows, you'd not get...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

I've been sitting here for the past few days really getting my head deeper into Silverlight and I'll post more example's of going from Flex to Silverlight later this week. I will however branch out a bit here and illustrate one nugget that I wish someone...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was excited to be promoted to a Product Manager role on the Rich Client Platform Team (Silverlght/WPF). Well, whilst I was at SxSW I bumped into some folks at PIXAR whom I shared a few beers with. Cut a long story...