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MIX07 UK Podcast with Craig Murphy

I sat down with Craig Murphy to chat about Windows Live and life in general at MIX07 UK. Craig has just posted a podcast of that conversation. I've known Craig for many years through the Delphi community. I think we first met in person in 2001 at "The Read More...
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 10:37 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

MIX07 UK Blogging

The title of honorary MIX07 UK stenographer goes to Sebastien Lambla (aka SerialSeb) for transcribing nearly word for word just about every session he attended this week, in realtime! Check out the detail in his notes on "Building Next Generation Web Read More...
Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 8:54 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Blogging at ReMix07 London

I'm sitting next to Angus in the back row of the ReMix07 London keynote. Angus is blogging in Windows Live Writer, and the guy on the other side of him is blogging in Windows Live Writer. Everyone loves a parade, so here I am blogging in Windows Live Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:00 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments
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Windows Live SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly known as Folders) is now in beta, enabling end users to store arbitrary data on the web under password access control. Files can be accessed over http(s) from web pages and from stand-alone client applications (thanks to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:58 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

LinkedIn to Add an API?

Dan Farber writes that LinkedIn 's Chairman, Reid Hoffman, has commented that he plans to roll out developer APIs to access the LinkedIn contacts database. Great news! The downside: It won't be ready until 2008. Bummer. How much further will the other Read More...
Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 9:38 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Secure Cross-Domain Communication: The Architecture Journal

The June issue (Journal 12) of The Architecture Journal focuses on web architecture. I was delighted to be invited to contribute, and wrote "Secure Cross-Domain Communication in the Browser" for this issue. In the article I describe a somewhat bizarre Read More...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 3:53 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

Hosting Silverlight On A Server That Won't Host .JS Files

Torontonian " wavesmash " has been tinkering with getting a Silverlight app up and running on his Blogger blog. Silverlight Streaming got him most of the way there, but he found the recommended pattern of placing the Silverlight control construction in Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:10 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

Name Change: Windows Live Quantum Mechanics

It's time to freshen things up a bit here. Out with the old musty ambiguous "Momentary Gouts of Reason", in with the new more specific and delightfully irreverent "Windows Live Quantum Mechanics". Why "Quantum Mechanics"? It was late at night, several Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:10 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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MIX07: Bat Signals and Five Minute Field Ops Centers

I apologize for cutting short my live/raw soundbyte blog post on the MIX07 keynote yesterday. I was literally called out of the keynote (audience) to fix an issue caused by a server update-in-progress back at the office. IM's went out to the team at MIX Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:59 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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MIX07: Silverlight Supports Dynamic Languages (Iron Ruby, Iron Python, JavaScript)

Josh Holmes has a great summary of the Ray Ozzie / Scott Guthrie keynote yesterday. Towards the end of his post, Josh notes with shock & awe that Silverlight not only includes a .NET CLR execution environment, but also the Dynamic Language Runtime Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:17 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

MIX07 and Silverlight in Technorati Top 10

Chris Woodill noticed that the MIX07 event and Silverlight announcements are creating ripples in the blogsphere. MIX07 and Silverlight are in the top 10 searches on Technorati! MIX07 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:48 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Scott Guthrie on Red vs Blue

Scott drops into Blood Gulch to show the Reds a thing or two (or three) about thoroughness ... (Uses the WPF/E browser plugin for video streaming and player skinning) (Skinning the video player, not the Halo players) Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:51 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Twice Tagged

"Dr Bob" Swart of the Netherlands and Jesper Hogstrom of the Borland/DevCo/CodeGear Delphi ECO team have both "tagged" me in this little game of prod-the-next-guy-into-blogging-about-themselves, so I guess I'd better hop to it before any more prods arrive Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:21 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments
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Blogging with Windows Live Writer

Out of frustration with the msdn blog server's sluggish response on the administration side of the house, I decided to take a quick look at the recently launched Windows Live Writer (beta) blog composition tool. I normally avoid installing stuff on the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:54 PM by dthorpe | 6 Comments
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