The Blog formerly known as "Ed's TechEd Blog"

Learn Silverlight odyssey soon becomes 'futz around with Expression Encoder' for a day...

After rooting around the Silverlight tutorials and documentation for a while I quickly became sidetracked by the attractions of being able to easily embed video into the a web page using Silverlight. A Microsoft colleague of mine from Redmond, Jim Thill,

Silverlight stack installation

I've actually got some real work to do, but ended up doing this instead which turned out to be way more fun. First off I decided to install the prerequisite stack required to start messing around with Silverlight 1.1. You need: Microsoft Silverlight 1.1

Midlife technical skills atrophy crisis

Rather like a sad-case-mid-thirties father-of-two-with-an-expanding-girth who still goes to Heavy Metal concerts in order to cling to the last vestiges of his youth by trying to appear hip (as if Heavy Metal was ever hip), I recently decided that I wanted

New job, new blog, new E-mail sig...

Well, seeing as for the last 4 weeks I've been doing this new role of 'Regional Manager, Next Web' I thought it about time to get with the programme. While I will spend some time explaining more about what this role is later, suffice to say for now that