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Cross-Domain Communication Using Domain Lowering

More than a few blog posts ago I stated my intent to publish a series of articles on cross-domain communication techniques. More time has passed than I had intended, but at last here is the start of that series of articles. The series will explore progressively Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:52 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

MSN's The Podium 08 - Built On Silverlight

MSN just launched The Podium '08 as part of their 2008 US Presidential election coverage. The Podium '08 brings together data on presidential candidates for voters and election followers to explore by topic and compare candidates head to head on specific Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 4:54 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

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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Undisclosed Browser Technology

When people ask what I worked on at Google and I answer "undisclosed browser technology", I think some folks think I'm just being coy or obnoxious. The truth is, I'm required to say that publicly and privately until Google publicly announces the technology Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:29 AM by dthorpe | 5 Comments

Microsoft Surface

You've got to see it to believe it: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Mmmm-mmm good. It may be time soon to dust off those great old Avalon Hill board games and look at implementing them on this table - without the thousands of chit markers . Twilight Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:11 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments
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HTML Namespace Attributes and IE document.namespaces

A few posts ago I promised to elaborate on a little gotcha that bit us in the butt while prepping the "blocks" to enable Popfly apps to use the Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control . Here it is: IE has a handy document.namespaces Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:27 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

More: Avoiding Popup Windows in Your Web Apps

Scott Isaacs shares some additional "best practices" points on dealing with popup windows and popup blockers: Always program window.open() very defensively... Always try catch any calls to window.open() and if you are retaining a reference to the window Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:10 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Popfly: Mashups Made Easy

Today John Montgomery 's NPT team launched Microsoft Popfly , a web-based development environment for building web applications with little or no code. John shares some background and history on his blog , but what you really ought to see first is the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:05 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

My Content, My Tags

Tagging online content with categories or keywords is a great idea. I love GMail's use of labels instead of folders. I tag all my Flickr photos six ways to Sunday. What I'm not so excited about are sites that encourage others to put public tags on my Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:36 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Avoiding Popup Blockers in Your Web Apps

Tim Heuer laments the growing number of otherwise reputable web sites that instruct their flocks to disable popup blockers in order to complete some task within that web site. Having stumbled into popup blocker hell myself only a few months ago with the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:51 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

Hello World with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming

I've been tinkering with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming and thought I'd share some of my discoveries and pointers. Silverlight is designed to dovetail into a traditional HTML+JavaScript web app. Your web page loads a Silverlight.js file and constructs Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:46 PM by dthorpe | 22 Comments

MIX07: POST/GET/PUT/DELETE Your Way To Windows Live Data

Martin Heller posted an article on Infoworld, " Data Wants To Be Free ," about the Windows Live Data "secret session" at MIX07. The Windows Live Data service (probably not its final name) enables a deeper level of integration and data access than the Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:38 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

MIX07: Windows Live Platform Beta

Live & raw notes from Brian Arbogast's keynote : ( watch the video ) "Today we are announcing the Windows Live Platform Beta" Simple and consistent terms of use across the Windows Live service spectrum Predictable costs at scale - so that you can Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:39 AM by dthorpe | 5 Comments
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Windows Live Spaces Control Launched

I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new client-side web control for accessing Windows Live services: The Windows Live Spaces control ! This control enables web visitors to use photos stored in their Windows Live Spaces photo albums with third Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 12:12 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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