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May 2009 - Posts

John L. Scott Real Estate Enables Online Social Networking with Live Services and Silverlight

John L. Scott Real Estate (JLS) is delivering a unique social networking solution, called JLSconnect, that makes it easier for buyers to shop for a home, and it will help JLS agents win new business and keep customers. By building this new solution using Read More...
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 11:55 PM by dpeuswr | 2 Comments

ebaY sidebar for Internet Explorer 8

eBay has just launched a new sidebar offering in beta. I have been collaborating with eBay on this wonderful Internet Explorer 8 sidebar. What is unique is that they are the first Internet Explorer sidebar that utilizes Silverlight™ as part of the presentation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:14 PM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Architect Council | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects

“Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”, “my way or the highway”, etc. We’ve all heard this type of proclamations before, as many look to the “next big things” in technology to exact sweeping changes and solve Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:03 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments

Esurance Delivers Key Services to Mobile Channel via Microsoft Platform

Esurance, the direct-to-consumer auto insurance company, has been offering policies online since 1999. And today, most Esurance customers still purchase their policies through the company’s user-friendly Web site. At esurance.com, customers can get free Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:40 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Scott Guthrie Returns to Phoenix!

For anyone who doesn’t know, Scott Guthrie is the force at Microsoft responsible for all things .NET. His official title is Corporate Vice President US-.NET Developer Platform (taken directly from the Microsoft Exchange GAL listing).  Suffice to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:35 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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BizSpark Phoenix – Legal Issues for Startups

On May 13, 2009 Garland Brown, an attorney with Greenberg, Traurig, LLP presented a well-rounded overview of some of the core legal issues facing startups. I have included his presentation in this post but I also wanted to share my personal notes on some Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:33 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Roadmap for Major Technology Announced at TechEd

Thanks to Network World for their article, Microsoft’s software pipeline set to burst . The product roadmaps for the coming year were announced at TechEd this past week. Read the full article on Raj Ramabadran’s blog at http://rajramabadran.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/roadmap-for-major-technology-announced-at-teched Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:32 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Yahoo! optimized IE8 Web Slice

If you are a Yahoo! Mail user and your currently using IE8 you will love the feature called the Mail Web slice that is available as part of Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Yahoo! . The Web slice gives signed-in users quick previews of their Mail right Read More...
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 4:45 PM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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MyProcess Prefers Silverlight over Flash for their SnapFlow Tool

As far back as 2001 Samad Wahedi began to notice the gradual migration of work to the Web. He saw that people were doing more activities online, from banking to social networking, and people needed tools for performing certain tasks.  Wahedi and Read More...
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 4:44 PM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Microsoft .NET Services Whitepapers Released

Microsoft .NET Services whitepapers are now available from the Microsoft download centers. Read the full article on Sam Chenaur’s blog at http://blog.samchenaur.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-net-services-whitepapers-released.aspx Read More...
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 4:42 PM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Eduify Innovates to the Edge – BizSpark, Azure..

Eduify is a web application and its mission is to give every student the tools and services they so critically need to become better writers and more importantly deliver to President Obama’s impetus to re-invigorate education in America. So before we Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:41 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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BizSpark hits 12,000!

Yesterday, marked 6 months since the launch of this fantastic program and with it came a great achievement – 12,000 startups ! Microsoft BizSpark is a great DEAL!  It is a program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:39 AM by dpeuswr | 2 Comments
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new CloudApp() – The Azure Challenge

new CloudApp() , a US based developer challenge, was launched today.  Its focus is to promote applications running on the Azure Services Platform .  This contest will have three categories of winners for applications running on the Azure Services Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:38 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Windows 7 Incubation

I helped Suresh Sreedharan a ISV Architect Evangelist execute the first Windows 7 Incubation Week. I will not go in to at much as we had a real writer Tamara Chuang stop by on the last day of the event and she did a great story read more… What 4 developers Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:35 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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John L Scott Real Estate Looks to WPF and Software + Services

Microsoft uses the term " Software+Services " to describe a vision of computing that harmonizes client and server software with cloud services [ S+S Strategy ].  Rich software components that either exist on client machines or installed Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:34 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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