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02 December 2007
Putting the Rich in RIA : User Account Profiles.
A User Account Today. Typically when you set out to build a RIA, you look at what data you're about to keep about a persons account. In that obviously "Username, Password and Email" are three key pieces of information you need to begin.  Read More...
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21 November 2007
Usage Metrics in your RIA
Inspiration comes from Games. I was at MIX ON CAMPUS (Brisbane) today and I was listening to one of our guest speakers ( Ross Brown ) talk about about some of the projects / research his students are doing with regards to games. One part of this session Read More...
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15 November 2007
POC #1 - Project Harmony (pt1) (Silverlight & Flash)
I've been enjoying the overall experience of what Silverlight has to offer since I started with Microsoft back in January 07. That being said, I've often been an internal "goto" person at times for some Flash advice on behalf of Microsoft customers Read More...
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11 November 2007
Writing Proof of Concept RIA's
When you sit down one night and decide to road-test a theory or an idea you have, then a Proof of Concept (POC) is something you should consider. That being said, when you do decide to write a POC knowing the difference between when you are writing a Read More...
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30 October 2007
RIA: 10 Questions on Icon Design - I ask our Microsoft Design folks to respond.
I have an Icon fetish that is disturbingly wrong. In that I collect them, horde them and will happily spend Microsoft's good hard earned money on as many of them as I can find - if allowed. Yet, what makes Icon's so special? in that why do they enhance Read More...
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19 October 2007
Rich Interactive Applications.
I just finished a blog post by James Ward (by far the best Evangelist Adobe have today) and it was a bloody good post, so much so, it helped me formulate this post (inspiration can come from many things I guess). “I was a young man with uninformed Read More...
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23 September 2007
AdvertBoy is quite unique in his approach with Silverlight.
I stumbled upon AdvertBoy's blog tonight and I'm impressed with his approach in using Silverlight. He impresses me because he's looking around at what he see's as being "Cool" and then tries to emulate this via Silverlight. This is a good thing Read More...
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09 September 2007
RIA can change context.
Context is when you look at a situation from a perspective and generally fall into a predefined segment. In that, if I look at say Microsoft Word, my context of use is to read a document - yet others may use word to construct a document. So different Read More...
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07 September 2007
Key ingredients for a RIA ecosystem.
Silverlight's announcement recently caught headlines, in that it's release and partnership with Novell to ensure delivery of Silverlight via Linux is supported. This in turn underpins the notion that in order to have a successful RIA (Rich Interactive/Internet Read More...
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21 August 2007
Silverlight and Flex working together.
I've talked about this a lot, even produced some demos for presentation on the subject, yet there is one online you can see today . The guys at Switch On the Code have put together a demo of using Flex Sliders to manipulate a Silverlight ball. They also Read More...
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21 August 2007
Re-designed this Blog
Ever since I came to Microsoft, one thing has bugged me and that is my blog's look and feel. It's great that I'm housed on Community Server, but the look and feel isn't me! Since I'm about to kick off to New Zealand to hang with all other creative folks Read More...
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13 August 2007
RIA, building your control framework.
Silverlight 1.0 is around the corner, and it won't have controls assigned to it upon official release. Yet, this is something very important to the success of Silverlight going forward, as without a control framework there is really no point right? This Read More...
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12 August 2007
Lightmaker Interview.
At ReMIX I had the pleasure of interviewing Lucas Sherwood from Lightmaker (which reminds me, must get down to Melbourne again soon). It was an on the spur of the moment interview but in it, we talk about a lot around some of the challenges they faced Read More...
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07 August 2007
RIA, just who really builds them.
In Microsoft we have a few bets on whom are the likely candidates who build RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) and what stimulates this behavior. It's a fluid demographic to pin down to be honest as typically speaking it's so new and foreign in many Read More...
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