30 June 2009
Silverlight & Expression 3 Australian Tour.
It’s 2 more sleeps and I fly home to Australia for a month and I’m excited to be home as well. I figured whilst I’m home it would be good to setup an Australian Tour to meet folks in each capital city and get their feedback on how we are doing with Silverlight,
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11 June 2009
Function, Form, Fashion – Shanemo.
Shane Morris , who for the few left that don’t know is one of our User Experience Evangelists in Australia. Shane’s actually got a deep background in Usability and is a lot of his fingerprints on our upcoming release of Expression Blend – Sketchflow.
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09 June 2009
Design First, Engineer Second.
A lot of the time folks write off Apple customers as simply being MacTards , fans that are so pre-occupied with Apple and less about the products they make. In part that can be true, I’ve meet some extreme ignorant fans, but in general that’s not true
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28 May 2009
Interview with Mark Coleran.
I just finished watching an Interview Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow put together around UI’s for the movie industry. It occurred to me tonight that I did an interview with the great Mark Coleran in Jan 2008 but never published it!. To help carry this
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12 May 2009
Are you confused about Windows Azure?
In my daily life here in the land of Microsoft Headquarters, I often interact with a whole variety of developers & designers from many places both local and far. I was talking in the hallway the other day with one of the guys in the Windows Azure
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27 April 2009
SilverZine.com A Must Read.
Alex Knight a fellow Aussie, has kicked off an online site focused purely on helping designers navigate the trouble waters of Silverlight . http://www.silverzine.com To quote: There is plenty of sites out there dedicated to developers and code related
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25 April 2009
Do’s and Don’ts of Video Tutorials.
As someone whom frequently watches a lot of Video tutorials from all walks of life, I often sit in front of the screen cursing at the author’s ability to waffle on in areas that are irrelevant or tap into my time. The objective of a video tutorial is
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25 April 2009
Did Microsoft copy the Adobe AIR Poster?
I often see a lot of the Adobe communities rant and rave ignorance about how Microsoft follows' Adobe’s every move, like some how they’ve got it all figured out. vs The reality is that majority of the time, Microsoft was the first to make the move, sadly
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24 April 2009
The back-story about the brand new Silverlight Blog design & development.
I’ve just uploaded one of the first revisions of the new blog design to team.silverlighet.net . It’s a more focused design this time and one in which i had the luxury of spending more time on than the one before. In this post I’ll walk through some of
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22 April 2009
ParagraphFormat() ? where art thou..
Interesting night for me, as I’ve spent the last 4 hours fumbling around in the Google dark trying to find a way to take “comments” for the team.silverlight blog, sanitize them but preserve their natural format in which the user typed them. In that for
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09 April 2009
Video Interview with Cynergy Systems on RIA + Microsoft.
It must be my lucky day, but Dave Wolf from Cynergy Systems just emailed me the URL for an interview I did with him on the industry specifically focused on the challenges in RIA overall. Yes, it’s funny a Product Manager of Silverlight doing an interview
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09 April 2009
Peter Elst Interviews me on Silverlight 3
I rarely do interviews or podcasts as typically I find them goofy, and I despite my blogging/twitter prowess, am quite a shy guy. That being said, I find value in Peter and openly respect his approach to technology as whilst he obviously prefers Flash
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07 April 2009
Sports can be competitive. Who knew! :)
Steve just did a great post on how well we’re doing in the sporting scene , and it’s worth checking out over at the team.silverlight.net blog. It does provide some basic common sense rebuttals to what MLB.Tv folks stated today in the CNET article. If
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02 April 2009
How to impersonate friends and influence enemies.
I’ve never really been a fan of sys-con.com and it’s approach to content vs. advertising. If anything, it’s probably the best example of an online site carpet bombing the end user with advertising that well basically offends. They’ve now turned it up
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31 March 2009
7000 Updates and still tweeting just as strong..
Tonight, I watched my twitter stats hit a nice rounded out number..freaky… How insane is that.. all rounded out in lots of 10. In light of this occasion I dedicated my 7000th tweet to Mr Tim Heuer as i think he’s been doing an amazing job with the Silverlight
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