July 2006 - Posts

Just spotted a cool new designer community - Re:merged
25 July 06 02:12 PM

A cool new community for designers interested in the interactive design of Web 2.0 and with a focus currently on the Windows Live services and SDKs. www.remerged.com/remerged Read More...

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Filed under: Windows Live

Presenting 101++
25 July 06 09:18 AM

Darren Strange is an Office Product Manager here in the UK and has posted a great blog entry about delivering top presentations using that little known tool called PowerPoint. It suits my presentation style really well and has given me some techniques Read More...

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NextDesignNow - great resource for budding UX gurus like me!
23 July 06 08:46 PM

http://www.nextdesignnow.com/ David Shadle is a User eXperience Evangelist at Microsoft in Redmond and maintains a great set of resources for all the different presentation technologies. I have started to work my way through some of the links and there Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, Expression, Atlas and ASP.NET, Developer

Mark Johnston - who is he?
21 July 06 10:10 AM

He is me. I thought it was worthwhile doing a very quick introduction to give some context to this blog and what I do at Microsoft. I've been at Microsoft 3 years now and worked on academic programs during that time. This has given me amazing opportunities Read More...

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Filed under: Personal

The killer bots are coming...
13 July 06 10:41 AM

...not really! But wouldn't life be a whole lot more interesting if they were. Thankfully the kind of bot that I am talking about sits safely inside the CLR and tells you things you want to know like train timetables and Encarta questions. Ian Moulster Read More...

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Filed under: Windows Live