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23 February 2009
The bigger you grow, the more stupider you become.
I just finished watching MacHeads, it’s a documentary about basically die hard Mac fans and was filmed around Macworld 2007. It was insightful, as the lesson I learnt was something I’ve been noticing for the past 3 years with regards to Microsoft. Here Read More...
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20 April 2008
I'm on DG.TV
Michael Kordahi - aka DelicateGenius decided to interview me on my last day at Microsoft Australia. It just occurred to me that I've never really done a video interview before (I usually turn them down), mainly because I'm a shy guy when it comes to camera's. Read More...
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13 April 2008
Anand asks - "What would you do if you were a Microsoft Evangelist?"
Anand Iyer , an Evangelist in our ever swelling ranks of evangelism army, asked a basic question. "Q.What would you do if you were a Microsoft Evangelist". I myself have wondered as to what folks perception of Evangelism really is all about and often Read More...
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26 March 2008
A UX and Developer Evangelist create, inspire and promote.
Shane and Michael spent a week in a program called "AiR" (Not the Adobe kind - Artists In Residence). It's a program headed up by Arturo Toledo (Expression Team) which enables folks to come to Redmond and spend some time building some UX prototypes Read More...
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25 February 2008
I am now a Product Manager.
I've managed to worm my way into Microsoft Corp HQ, as a Product Manager (PM) on the Rich Client Platform team ( Silverlight/WPF etc ). This for me is a major step forward in my career, as whilst I've enjoyed being one of the first RIA Evangelist for Read More...
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31 January 2008
Something is being built...and I hope you RIA kids are watching...
I've been a busy little Microsoftee and have done a lot of interviews over the past few months with folks from all walks of life. I'm about to go live very soon with a project. What's the project? not telling until it's finished. I will give you a teaser Read More...
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10 January 2008
Silverlight: Instant YouTube out of the box.
“..I’ve got this idea, and it’s a way to do a job that is better than what YouTube does today..” is usually an opening line I receive a lot (not word for word, but the meaning is there). Silverlight can enable you to do many powerful Read More...
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12 December 2007
Exploring a different horizon.
I often get queries, questions and so on around why I on one hand wear the Microsoft logo on my shirt, yet roam around the the place with a MacBook Pro. I also at times play around with Adobe Products as well as our own, and essentially the question mark Read More...
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08 December 2007
1yr into being a Microsoft Evangelist. (The Story).
It's been about a year now since I first got the phone call from Frank Arrigo giving me the thumbs up on a new role here at Microsoft . Given Christmas break is approaching, I decided to pause for a bit and reflect on how my year's been and the lessons Read More...
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04 November 2007
No Planes, No Conferences, No Meetings
I've been traveling quite a lot this year and meet with some amazing folks in the process. Well, my travel is up for this year and I'm looking forward to spending some much needed R&R at home with the family and get back to basics - coding some proof Read More...
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27 October 2007
Mozilla, Adobe and Silverlight. Shall we dance?
No doubt you've seen the Prism announcement by Mozilla. Quite an interesting move in this chess game we call "The Software Industry". Personally, I'm not sure what the end game for Mozilla is anymore and I'm sure If I look hard enough I'll find Read More...
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24 October 2007
iEvangelise - Life of an Evangelist.
I'm knee deep in Apple love at the moment and today I got the ok to buy a Macbook Pro to replace my sucky Toshiba Tablet (it's gotten worse). In light of this, I thought I better put some of that ROI promises to good use but at the same time, thought Read More...
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20 October 2007
Evangelism: An Emotional Bond.
In the past few weeks, a few things have risen to the top of a lot of agendas, emotion. An emotional bond with something is hard to discuss out loud, as at times most don't know they have an emotional bond or chose to ignore it, brush it aside as being Read More...
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13 August 2007
Microsoft UX.Artu.Tv
Arturo Toledo , Product Manager for UX Platform & Tools (Silverlight, WPF, Expression...) has spun up his own blog found over at http://www.ux.artu.tv/ . Arturo is a classic artistic soul and he has some interesting insights once you get to know him Read More...
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25 July 2007
We gave birth to RIA.
Adobe's Mike Downey and I were throwing comments back and forth on twitter.com this morning, it was derived from Brad Becker (ex Flash Product guy @ Macromedia and now Microsoft staffer) post on RIA . Brad posted this a few months ago when JD @ Adobe Read More...
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