Nigel Parker's Outside Line

Juxtaposing the web, media and mobile for New Zealand developers.

It's that time of year again where I write and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year....

Date: 12/25/2013

More than 8 years ago, before the iPhone, before Twitter, before Facebook, before digital cameras...

Date: 07/07/2013

Now I wouldn’t normally consider this sort of thing news worthy but I guess others have so I...

Date: 03/13/2013

In two months time I will have been eight years in the DPE team at Microsoft New Zealand. During...

Date: 01/16/2013

I have just had one of those eureka moments sitting by the pool in Fiji relaxing in the sun, so I...

Date: 11/28/2012

Having just completed my seventh year as a technology evangelist in New Zealand it is easy to lose...

Date: 04/02/2012

It has been almost 6 years since the first Webstock in Wellington, and I still remember fondly the...

Date: 01/16/2012

Since the launch of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer there have been almost 2 million downloads...

Date: 11/24/2011

Previously Mike wrote a great editorial about all things //BUILD I'd like to re-iterate that...

Date: 10/20/2011

Last week I presented at WDCNZ in Wellington with Chris Double (Auckland based Mozilla Developer who...

Date: 07/17/2011

Last week Adobe broke the Internet. What they did was push an upgrade to their Flash plugin to...

Date: 05/29/2011

UPDATE: Congratulations to Arraybracket Limited – Fill ‘Er Up for winning the random...

Date: 05/15/2011

The Problem: Lots of kiwi developers are signing up to try Windows Azure but are not actually...

Date: 05/01/2011

I have just finished giving my presentation at MIX11 on HTML5 Video and Audio. I enjoyed the session...

Date: 04/14/2011

Date: 04/14/2011

2011 MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP FESTIVAL AUCKLAND, 12th APRIL Join us at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup...

Date: 04/04/2011

I want to call out what an awesome job Mike did with NZ’s first Startup Weekend #AKLSW. He was...

Date: 04/03/2011

Date: 03/23/2011

I previously posted the links to all the demos that I gave during my unplugged talk around New...

Date: 03/21/2011

I must admit there are some very nice apps starting to turn up in marketplace built by NZ devs. Some...

Date: 03/20/2011

UPDATE: I have posted the slide deck and session videos to...

Date: 03/13/2011

I am hitting the road next week with Mike to present two developer sessions around the country. As I...

Date: 03/08/2011

Last week when I was down in Wellington for the ONYAs (Congratulations Keith!) I visited Te Papa to...

Date: 02/27/2011

I have written the first MSDN Flash editorial of the year. Subscribe to the newsletter if you...

Date: 01/23/2011

Since the launch of Windows Phone 7 and while I was down at the iDev conference in Christchurch I am...

Date: 01/18/2011

Today is my last day acting in the team lead role and I want to share some of the insights and...

Date: 12/23/2010

Ben Gracewood's Year of Love post kicked me into action to post my own Christmas message. Ben wrote:...

Date: 12/21/2010

As we wrap up the year I’m happy at how NZ developers have taken to the new Windows Phone 7...

Date: 12/21/2010

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been tuning the JavaScript engine for more of the patterns we’ve...

Date: 11/17/2010

In July 2008 I spent a day at the Open Source Lab at Microsoft in the USA. This got me thinking of...

Date: 11/16/2010

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) kicks off tomorrow morning and we would like...

Date: 10/27/2010

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