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Expression 3 available for pre-order
26 July 09 07:25 PM
My buddy Chris let me know that the Microsoft Store in the UK has the Expression 3 suite of designer products available for pre-order. Mike Ormond has a great post about Expression 3 and a cool video on the new features in Expression Web 3 If you are Read More...
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From about:blank to bing.com
26 July 09 07:16 PM
After an amazing week at the annual MGX conference for Microsoft’s sales and marketing ‘field’ – people like me who work in places like the UK rather than directly on products in Redmond – I made a subtle but important change to my browser – I flipped Read More...
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Microsoft Expression offer in UK 40% off
11 May 09 09:28 PM
If you are a designer or developer that works with Microsoft technology (ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc) then this is a cracking offer from the guys over in the Microsoft Store – 40% off which means you can bag Expression Web (upgrade) for just under £60 for Read More...
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Flash v Silverlight Gallery
02 March 09 11:36 AM
Stumbled across this great site with a tonne of examples built for Flash and Silverlight. It’s from Terence Tsang , who has 6 years Flash experience and 1 year in Silverlight. Examples include source code demonstrating effects, animation and 3D. If you Read More...
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New Media what?
27 February 09 02:45 PM
I really enjoyed this video for 2 reasons: I’ve been talking about this ‘stuff’ for a while now in marketing meetings, and I am guilty of many of the comments in the video. My niece knows douchebag is a ‘naughty word’ and loves to tell people off when Read More...
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More designer/developer wallpaper – use it and win coffee
09 February 09 07:49 PM
Continuing on from my previous post celebrating the launch of the UK Expression Newsletter I have another set of wallpapers to share with you. This time from the very talented Albinal.com A Meeting of the Minds Available in all sorts of resolutions. Grab Read More...
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A tidy desk
09 February 09 07:25 PM
This blog post is classified under OCD I have a few pet hates in life, and one of them is how messy cables can look going from my PC to my monitor! So, during #uksnow 2009 I took it upon myself to fix this issue once and for all. And decided to document Read More...
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Dell Social Innovation competition
02 February 09 03:24 PM
Dell just announced a competition for students challenging them to come up with innovative ideas to solve global issues. It’s very similar to Microsoft’s Imagine Cup with the difference being that the IC is focused more on applying the technology to the Read More...
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Microsoft Expression Webcasts
27 January 09 03:21 PM
My colleagues in the US created a tonne of great video training content for Microsoft Expression design tools. I think there are something like 28 videos in total. A good starting point if you haven’t used Expression before is to try the fundamentals Read More...
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MSDN UK events – Silverlight and WPF
11 January 09 06:55 PM
The guys in the MSDN team are presenting a load of events on rich client technologies during February: Event Description Audience: Developers In this half-day session we’ll do a refresh of the technologies that we can use to build rich, interactive clients Read More...
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Silverlight skills are hot!
24 December 08 09:44 AM
And my name ain’t Paris either. Nick Langley over at Computer Weekly has a great piece on how important Silverlight is in the RIA space for those with .NET skills. C# and ASP.Net web developers with Silverlight £28-40k Not bad eh? And if you fancy some Read More...
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My festive geek gift list
19 December 08 11:12 AM
Everyone else does one of these, so I couldn’t resist throwing my gadget and geek desires onto HTML/RSS. Flip Mino HD This little beauty is an HD video recording device. It would be cool to start capturing more and more video moments both personally (family Read More...
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CM’s Christmas card in Silverlight Deepzoom
17 December 08 04:53 PM
The nice people over at Content Master created their Christmas card with DeepZoom : Check out Merry Christmas from all at CM Group (HT to Kris ) Read More...
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Photosynth goes Silverlight
15 December 08 09:54 AM
Spotted this one on the DeepZoom blog   Kudos to Mark Dawson for this Check it out - Experimental Silverlight Photosynth Viewer Read More...
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Are designers and developers really that different?
01 December 08 08:39 PM
I’m still figuring out this space and caught this great article over on Think Vitamin posing 10 unanswered questions from the FOWD event in New York. The interesting part of the article is reading people’s responses in the comments section (46 at time Read More...
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