May 2008 - Posts
Chris Caposella gave an interesting talk earlier this week? in which he mentioned his views that "In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Online,". this got me thinking about an interesting presentation i once saw in which
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With the release of .Net Framework 3.5 late last year, the teams have been working hard on some of the individual components. Last Monday saw the beta release of the third itera tion of Windows Presentation Foundation there is a great post by Tim Sneath
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Great post from Scott Guthrie..... http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx
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One thing i am getting asked a lot lately is where Microsoft Partners can get hold of Silverlight training. There were a number of courses ran out of Redmond that are now complete but some of the content has been opened out to the wider audience, i thought
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This weekend was Radio 1's Big weekend , a festival styled event at Mote Park in Maidstone. Billed as being Europe's largest free ticketed event there were a host of stars performing including Madonna, Usher and the Fratellis. Feedback from the event
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This has to be one of the best all round Silverlight demo's i have seen! built by a team here in the UK, it utilises a lot of the latest features including deepzoom in a real world scenario that almost anyone can relate to. Microsoft Health Common User
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My pals at Metia Software are running the first in a series of events to the Financial sector later this month promoting a range of new ideas and thinking around some of the latest Microsoft technology. This has caught my eye for a number of reasons,
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On my last visit to the guys at LBi, Riaz Ahmed was telling me about a new publication that LBi have just launched - LBiQ - absolutely loving it! There is some fantastic content in here and the whole publication is beautifully put together. There is some
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Everyone loves a nice viral ad campaign, no one more so than me! The Webharmony campaign was launched a few weeks back to drive awareness of the Expression and Visual Studio 2008 tools from Microsoft, more specifically how XAML is bridging the two worlds
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Thanks to some sterling work from John Allwright (Expression product manager) Microsoft has commissioned a 36-page Silverlight/Expression 2 supplement with Digital Arts magazine. These will be in Digital Arts and Macworld magazines distributed in early
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This blog has definitely suffered from a lack of TLC in recent months. Truth is, its all been a little up in the air of late. moving home, changing roles, blah, blah, blah. Short version is I have a new role at Microsoft; managing our Creative development
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