I just got an email from one of my customers about the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 that became available yesterday: I downloaded the new IE 8 Beta 2 and I have to say it is an outstanding browser.  All the little issues I had that stopped me from...

Next week I will be in New York City meeting customers and I will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop  at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF applications with Expression Studio and Visual Studio...

I love using Expression Blend.  With both a design education (architecture) and a career in software development, I've become somewhat of an expert on using Microsoft's Expression Blend for designing WPF and Silverlight user experiences.  Over...

If you have any interest in Expression Blend or how I made these journals , you should vote for the two panels that I've submitted for the South by Southwest (SxSW) 2009 interactive festival : Extreme Expression Blend for Silverlight Designers - as many...

I participated in a panel discussion at the Bandwidth conference in San Francisco where I met Chuck Fishman from Cisco. We were talking about discovering music, and Chuck told me about the Hype Machine . I went to the Hype Machine and saw a link for ...

Today I spent the afternoon at the Bandwidth conference in San Francisco.  I met quite a few people in the very interesting intersection of music and technology.  One cool company that I learned about was JamBase.com , a site for finding Live...

Since I created my first mashup with Popfly over a year ago, it has really come a long way.  Now it is really easy to create your own blocks and share your mashup creations.  For those of use who have blogs, the RSS feed is a way of life - it...

With just a little code and some prompting from people on Twitter, I was able to add support for FireFox, Safari, and IE7 to the paging demo that I wrote on http://xmldocs.net/sl2paging .  Basically I added a DispatcherTimer to my page class and...

Ever since I was in the C++ world, I have been enamored with code analysis tools;  I used to live by PC-Lint .  So since I started using C# a few years ago code analysis was something that I wanted to integrate into my C# coding practice as...

Our lives are full of wonder.  Over the past 6 years, my wife has been focused on creating a home and raising our two boys, Alex and Sam and doing so she has delighted in seeing that wonder.  After experiencing one too many incidents where she...