I’m so enamored with Orchard ( http://www.orchardproject.net ) that I’ve decided to make it my primary blogging platform. Come check out my new blog at http://www.philotic.com/blog , written and run on the Orchard platform! All future blog posts will...

This week, Microsoft is participating in the DrupalCon San Francisco Conference at the Moscone Center. The event marks an important milestone for Microsoft, as we announced the release of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the new SQL Server Driver...

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, which includes many of the frameworks, tools and languages utilized when deploying solutions on Microsoft’s Web Platform . As part of this launch, deploying ASP...

function webCamps() { day1.Learn(); day2.Build(); } Interested in learning how new innovations in Microsoft's Web Platform and developer tools like ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 can make you a more productive web developer? If you're currently working...

Optimizing Windows Server-based Web sites for search just got a lot easier now that the final release of IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 is available for download . The newest version of URL Rewriter takes URL simplification to the next level by enabling developers...

Today the IIS team released the FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1. This allows popular application frameworks that support the FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high performing and reliable way. FastCGI provides an alternative...

Today, Microsoft announced a monthly spotlight series, beginning with the SEO Toolkit , an extension for IIS. Start with the free download, review your website, and make changes fast. The SEO Toolkit with its detailed analysis and search engine friendly...

Today the CodePlex Foundation announced the addition of the Orchard Project to it’s ASP.NET Gallery . Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components using the ASP.NET platform. It’s first...

What is it? The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. Once the Windows Cache Extensions for PHP are enabled and loaded by the PHP engine – PHP...

Introduction Ask any ten people what Web 2.0 is and you’ll likely get ten different answers. Ask any ten business owners what it is, and you’ll likely get the same variety of answers – but one thing will be in common – they’ll all want to have a part...

The Internet and the Web are hardly new, but, with the rapid change and rapid innovation that is happening almost daily, knowing how easy, or how hard it is to get content on the web is a constantly moving target. So, I’m starting this series of blog...

It’s been a little while since I’ve updated this blog, but there’s a lot of new content coming down the pipe. I’ve moved on from being the Silverlight Evangelist at Microsoft and am now working on Web Development Strategy across a number of technologies...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight The Silverlight object model exposes events that can be used to build a very friendly end user experience for installing Silverlight. When it comes to using a Web site that requires a plug-in...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight For those of you who were not able to attend MIX (and it wasn’t just the best MIX ever, but IMHO the best conference I’ve ever been to), and were not able to get their hands on a copy of my Silverlight...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Basketball , March Madness   Just a quick update from MIX. If you’re a sports fan, I’m sure you’re familiar with March Madness :) Well it kicks off today, and it’s all available, free and in HD on http://mmod.ncaa.com...

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight So, if you haven’t gotten into MIX already, or if your employer is pulling back on budgets because of the economy, here’s a chance to score a free pass (just a pass mind you, and...

The Patterns and Practices team @ Microsoft have been busy working on helping answer the question – how do I maximize my skills in XAML and .NET development to build for both Silverlight and WPF. The result: Prism 2.0 has just been released to the wild...

I’m glad you all enjoyed the last riddle, the answer to which was ‘Area 51’. I told the story in the comments section. Due to its popularity, I’ve scored another pass, and want to try out your search engine skills to do a sort-of global scavenger hunt...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 As you may know, MIX is coming up very soon – March 18-20 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. You can find the full details on the conference at http://www.visitmix.com . It’s an unmissable...

I just got this in my email from Denis Dollfus , and had to share it. It’s an extremely odd, and strangely hypnotic app. Would make a great screensaver :)

Ok, so we turn on the news and we see economic crisis everywhere, we hear of layoffs and cost cutting and rumors of depression. Well, I’m a rose-tinted-glasses kind of guy, and I firmly believe that it is at times like this that the smarter investor sows...

A few new Silverlight Apps from our friends in the Netherlands are definitely worth checking out. First up is Monteverdi.tv, a portal for classical music events, built in PHP, but which delivers Silverlight: http://live.monteverdi.tv/rco/view.php It allows...

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m an Otaku and I’m happy that I work in a job that allows me to visit Otaku heaven (Akihabara) once or twice a year. Anyway, it was only a matter of time before someone used Silverlight to build a site for Otaku like me...

For those of you who have been asking about Silverlight and Windows Live, I’m now pleased to announce that Windows Live downloads will include Silverlight in the installation. If you haven’t already tried the Windows Live applications, I thoroughly recommend...

In its early days, Silverlight concentrated on being Web friendly with its text, meaning that the number of fonts were constrained to those that would be available on most computers. On this blog I listed a number of workarounds for languages such as...