December 2007 - Posts

Silverlight based Tafiti released as Shared Source
19 December 07 09:15 AM

Windows Live Quick Apps are free to download and modify sample applicaions which harness the power of Windows Live . Tafiti as mentioned on this blog before is a graphical UI on top of the search engine, and is the latest addition to the Quick Apps family. Read More...

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How cool are you this Christmas?
16 December 07 08:26 PM

I've been involved (in the wings) in a project with the Windows Live team who used DotNet Solutions and later the Silverlight team in Seattle to produce this festive Silverlight based web site that allows users to search for the favourite and worst Christmas Read More...

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Filed under: Windows Live, Silverlight

Where are they now? Imagine Cup 2004 and 2005 Competitor - Luke Smith
13 December 07 06:24 PM

Luke Smith was a competitor back in 2004 and also a Microsoft Student Partner. I caught up with him recently to hear his thoughts on life since the Imagine Cup. He's gone on to do lots of interesting things including working at a cool mobile sports service Read More...

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Filed under: Imagine Cup

innerworkings - Train your developers to code (properly)
07 December 07 11:12 AM

I spent some time talking to Bob and the guys at innerworkings about their product and service - it is a developer training interface which integrates directly with Visual Studio and gives developers (ones that write code for a living rather than students) Read More...

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Filed under: Developer, Imagine Cup, Student

Where are they now? Imagine Cup 2004 Winner - Andy Grieves
06 December 07 02:01 PM

This is the first in a series of videos and email interviews with former competitors in the Imagine Cup here in the UK. A very common question we receive is "What happens to former winners and competitors?" and whether the Imagine Cup has had Read More...

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Filed under: Imagine Cup, Student

Microsoft Download Center and Silverlight
04 December 07 03:46 PM

There is a cool preview download centre up that uses Silverlight: http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx   First glances it has: Menu in top right written in Silverlight The Popular and New Downloads tables are Silverlight The Browse Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight

British Army use Xbox 360 controllers :-)
02 December 07 06:57 PM

Was sitting with my future brother in-law who is in the RAF as an engineer. We were watching telly and this army jobs ad came on. He knows a few lads who work on UAVs which got us talking, and then I spotted the Xbox 360 controller they were using to Read More...

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Filed under: Gadgets