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From concept to delivery in 2 weeks with Windows Azure and Silverlight
08 June 09 10:55 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   
Suppose you were asked to design and host an interactive map for the Taste of Chicago , which gets about 3 million visitors.  No problem.  Now, suppose you only had 2 weeks to deliver the whole thing – from first phone call to finished product.   Read More...
Cool new spatial analysis for SharePoint users
05 May 09 06:30 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
I’ve always been sort of a map nut.  In fact, I love maps (there, I said it! :) ).  Way back when I was Director of Elections for a county out in the State of Washington, I used to spend a lot of time with maps.  In particular, we had a Read More...
Make a cool game, win fame and fortune
11 February 09 01:14 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Make a cool Silverlight game, and you could win $5000. Plus, get featured in ServerQuest II! More details here . What is ServerQuest, you ask? Technorati Tags: Silverlight , games Read More...
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Making tool bars interesting again. No, really.
12 December 08 07:04 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Here's something interesting from InfoSpace... a tool bar! No, really. In fact, see for yourself over at Sam Chenaur's site . He's got a nice screen grab, too. This is not your "father's toolbar". I tried to get my own screen grab from the Recipe toolbar Read More...
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WSJ Business Technology Blog: "Are NetFlix Layoffs Microsoft's Fault?"
08 December 08 07:05 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   
Wall Street Journal's Business Technology blog raises this question in delivering the ultimate backhanded compliment by saying: The video service launched a new player for instant-watch movies in October that is powered by Microsoft’s Silverlight, a rich-media Read More...
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Get free training on Silverlight, WPF, and ASP.NET AJAX from PluralSight!
30 May 08 05:04 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   
UPDATE: Jon Box presented some slides at the beginning of the session today, and a request came from the audience to get a copy of the slides. I've added those slides as an attachment to this post. How? Go here and sign up! The session is a 1-day overview Read More...
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Ever wished for cross-platform Silverlight desktop apps? So has Miguel de Icaza...
18 April 08 01:53 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   
From Miguel's de Icaza's web log : Now that controls are part of Silverlight 2.0 and that most of the high-level controls have been open sourced and that they are incredibly powerful and great to skin it makes sense to think again about native desktop Read More...
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The most ambitious web media project ever
11 April 08 03:17 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Adam Kinney has a great write-up and preview on the most ambitious web media project ever attempted: NBC's site for the 2008 Olympics.  How big is this?  For the first time, the web will be the first class channel for experiencing the Olympics.   Read More...
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Amazing Day 1 Keynote at MIX!
05 March 08 08:28 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Wow -- so much at MIX I can't possibly do it justice right now, but check out the summary here .   Really, really amazing stuff and some super announcements.  Just a teaser: Silverlight for Mobile devices -- and not just windows mobile Read More...
paidContent.org - Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire on Web Media: We Made Multiple Bets, and The Platform Side Won
19 December 07 06:09 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
For those interested in web video... Here's a good interview with Jeremy Allaire , CEO of Brightcove and former CTO of Macromedia. Jeremy reviews a couple different business segments Brightcove has experimented with, and discusses how the company came Read More...
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Surface, Popfly, Photosynth, Silverlight, Windows Live Platform, and consumer value stream links
15 December 07 02:39 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Was talking to some folks the other day about some of the cool stuff emerging from Microsoft, and after mentioning to folks they could learn more on this blog, I got request to consolidate some links together into a single post. Voila! :-) Surface Popfly Read More...
Go ahead -- Rip my blog! (And web IM me, too)
16 November 07 06:26 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
That is, if you like my blog. I've added a couple new gadgets a little ways down the right hand column of the blog. The first is a Popfly gadget of my blog. Why a gadget of my blog on my blog? Sort of redundant, no? Well, yes. But, if you like the blog Read More...
The democratization of media continues
13 November 07 03:28 PM | john.mullinax | 5 Comments   
Wow!  A new high for user generated content: 1 song, 5 parts, 1 guy -- all in streaming HD video! Jon Box pointed me to this amazing post from Carl Franklin where he videos himself doing a Steeley Dan tune ( Home at Last, 1977).  It's all Carl Read More...
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PhizzPop Interview: Silverlight for cross platform video at University of Michigan
07 November 07 02:15 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   
Just saw this over at PhizzPop . What is PhizzPop you may ask? It's a fledgling community site for designers to learn from and showoff to their peers. The link above is to an interview with Ken Arbogast-Wilson, Manager of Media Development and Production Read More...
How to put Silverlight video on your blog
02 November 07 06:31 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   
Ed has short, funny, and yes, helpful, post on how easy it is to put Silverlight video on your blog using Windows Live Writer and the Silverlight Streaming Services -- which by the way lets you host both video and Silverlight applications if you got 'em. Read More...
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