August 2008 - Posts

Mojave Experiment, now with added Silverlight
29 August 08 08:58 AM

Whenever Microsoft release a site with Flash on it these days, there is a lot of stick both internally and on the blogosphere about why the marketing team didn't mandate the agency build it using Silverlight. It's amazing to see that the Vista marketing Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight

Imagine Cup UK - The winners story
27 August 08 10:28 AM

It seems like a lifetime ago that we held the Imagine Cup UK finals in London and over 150 students, partners and press came together to see what the competition was all about and how students were helping to fight climate change. Ben and Dominic won Read More...

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Filed under: Popfly, Imagine Cup, Student

Expression Blend tutorial videos on Microsoft.com
14 August 08 03:23 PM

Load of great videos on how to use Expression Blend, Design and their siblings in Expression Studio are up on the Microsoft.com Videos site (currently in Beta). Expression Studio tutorials Read More...

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Filed under: Expression

I'll be at Remix UK in Brighton on 18-19 September
14 August 08 03:12 PM

I'm going to be at Remix in Brighton on 18-19 September. It is going to be great. Tonnes of great content. Great speakers. Great location. It should be the Great British Remix :) I'll be there in my new role as Expression Product Manager, rather than Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, Expression, Silverlight

Imagine Cup Short Films online
14 August 08 10:49 AM

One of the most exciting parts of the Imagine Cup worldwide finals each year (I've done 3 now) is the showing of the Short Film category. The teams have a simple brief, make a kick arse short film during the WW finals using the surrounding city as your Read More...

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Filed under: Imagine Cup, Channel8

Silverlight + Deepzoom + Cars = Me Happy
05 August 08 07:29 PM

I saw this internally and again on Tim Heuer's blog . Kelley Blue Book looks similar to an AutoTrader or Autoebid in the UK and it's Perfect Car Finder service built using Deepzoom and Silverlight allows users to filter on their preferences and see the Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight

Managing a lot of email - PIFEM email management solution
01 August 08 10:17 AM

I stumbled across this blog post from Angus Logan about drowning in email and managing that using a system called PIFEM. I've read Getting Things Done and thought it was interesting - unfortunately I was bored on a 7 hour bus journey from Alice Springs Read More...

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