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Richard Godfrey

Software Architecture, Engineering and Stuff

March 2007 - Posts

Standards... wot standards?
Back in November 2005 I blogged about the Open XML document format being submitted to Ecma and was raving about the likes of Jean Paoli (co-creator of XML) who have pushed this so hard. Well, the Ecma standardisation process did its business and we ended Read More...
Release Candidate of Blend available
I've mentioned Expression Blend in a few posts as one of the core tools for WPF design. The release candidate is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-blend/try.mspx so why not give it a try... our starter Read More...
Is this the magazine of the Future?
On the run up to the Vista launch I had been speaking with Paul Douglas and Richard Keith at Future Publishing (just down the road from me in Bath ) about taking some of their content and hosting it in the cool WPF Turning the Pages application. I think Read More...
London Underground
For the last few months I’ve been working with the guys at London Underground and Edenbrook . Having seen the impressive use they’ve made of Office 2003 and Sharepoint in particular, we started talking about the possibilities with the Office 2007 System Read More...
I am a live writer
I figured if I'm going to take this blog thing seriously I'd better find a tool which suits the way I work because the web based publishing UI is not for me... I reckon I need something that works offline, has easy publishing of pictures and is pretty Read More...
SaaS - A spectrum of choices
Eric and I are now full steam ahead in preparation for our workshop on Monday (although Sunday night is looking like "one of those nights!" already). Anyway, we were chatting over our experiences earlier and I think we hit on a little nugget... the question Read More...
Flash!
The MSDN flash is a great way to stay in touch with what's going on at Microsoft in general and especially what's happening in the UK. Why not take a look at the 21st February edition of the archives in which Tim and I contribute to the feature article Read More...
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