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We just completed an 2-1/2 day Expression Blend and Silverlight training course in Denver for some of our communications sector customers and really saw some eyes light up. Our intention was to give our customers some hands-on experience with Expression...

You've all probably already seen this, but I thought I'd share it with you: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

My colleague Tim Heuer, posted a great example of how you might extent Expression Encoder to encode and upload content to a Content Delivery Networks (CDN). If you've used the Expression Encoder add-in for Silverlight Streaming , you've seen an example...

When I watch this video about Windows Server 2008, I get a very big grin: (Passion + Enthusiasm ) * Smart People = a Great Product.

If you are interested in building mobile applications on the Windows Mobile platform, then you've got to go here , a new site about building Windows Mobile applications. http://www.innovateonwindowsmobile.com/ Interestingly, if you install Visual Studio...

Are you a Professional Developer or Architect working for a Microsoft Partner Organization in the U.S.? Then you may want to consider joining Partner Huddle, an online social community for members of the Microsoft partner community. To learn more about...

A recording of the webinar that I just hosted on Silverlight for Content Delivery Networks is now available online .

Take a look at the latest installment video at the http://www.stayathomeserver.com/ site, Dueling Experts .

Gotta take a look at the latest video going around the web: Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales:

My colleague, Woody Pewitt compiled a list of .Net user groups in Southern California . If you have ever been involved in a good user group, you should know how sharing best practices can really help your software development practices.

USA Today tells us that it looks like AT&T is following Google's Verizon's lead by opening their wireless network. Very interesting...

If you were able to attend the Q&A session with Microsoft resident encoding expert Ben Waggoner , you would have seen 31 attendees peppering Ben with questions for just over an hour. If you missed it, you can view a recording here . Recordings of...

Here is a Silverlight Hanukkah gift that I made in about a half hour. The candles should start lighting (one per night) starting tonight (12/4/2007) at 6:00 PM. If you want to put it on your web site, copy this code to any web page: <iframe src=" http...

Chris Knowlton wrote this blog post earlier this year comparing web servers to streaming media servers for media delivery. If you are contemplating hosting audio or video content, you should read it.

My colleague Harry Mower just posted a great article about the roadmap of our technology roadmap as a follow-up to Scott Guthrie's post about the Microsoft .Net Web Technology Roadmap Take a look here to read the article. There are some good links in...

It's not Dinosaurs in the office, but it is cool: Take a look at the latest marketing campaign to show off the new Windows Home Server: www.stayathomeserver.com . The Windows Home Server team has also commissioned a new book that will actually be selling...

My colleague Will Tschumy has just posted the problem statement for the PhizzPop Design Challenge in Los Angeles. This challenge will culminate with a party this Thursday night, December 6. Since this is a media-oriented scenario, it's especially exciting...

At a recent user group meeting, one of the developers brought up an issue where he was getting slow loading time for a page and wondered how he could troubleshoot and fix it. I asked my colleagues and here are some links that they provided: Try tracing...