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New Videos: Get Started with Visual Web Developer Express 2008
Visual Web Developer Express 2008 is a free web tool that allows you to build CSS, HTML ASP.NET, C#, VB, and JavaScript and supports additional frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Silverlight and jQuery. ASP.NET is releasing a new series of how-to videos Read More...
IE8 Web Slices, Accelerators, ESPN, and eBay
Internet Explorer (IE) 8 has a number of cool features including Color- Coded Tabs that group together connected tabs, web slices, and accelerators.  What is an accelerator ?  An accelerator allows you to quickly take an action based on highlighted Read More...
MIX 09 Announcements
MIX 09 had some great announcements for web developers and we designers, I thought I’d post a summary of some of the announcements here so you can follow up on those that interest you.  This Week on Channel9 has a great re-cap where they discuss Read More...
Silverlight for MySpace Developer Platform
Exciting announcement from Michael’s blog about MySpace and Silverlight. “Now you can build Silverlight applications for the MySpace Developer Platform !  I have been working with MySpace for months on this initiative and now we have some exciting Read More...
MIX Web Design Conference Direct from a Student
Microsoft Students 2 Business is a Microsoft community that helps students connect with Microsoft partners and professionals to gain experience, mentoring and jobs.  This month, Microsoft Students 2 Business sent Janis Lee at UIUC to attend the MIX Read More...
IE8 Color Coded Tabs
I spent today reading some articles on internet browsers, their features, and their programming models.  Processes are the New Threads:   One of new approaches many browsers are taking is to model tabs as processes instead of threads.  Read More...
Silverlight Game Contest
Build a Game in Silverlight for the opportunity to win $5K. More Details here: http://www.serverquestcontest.com/ Read More...
SlideShare Office 2007 Plugin
From http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/slideshare-sends-powerpoint-to-the-cloud-with-new-plugin/ :  SlideShare , a startup that we’ve likened to a YouTube equivalent for PowerPoint presentations , has released a new plugin for Microsoft Office Read More...
XAML PowerToys for Silverlight
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Silverlight 2 is Now Available
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Ramping up on the job: Training
Ah, training.  Formal training can be more or less helpful depending on the training and role.  For my role, I have various online trainings "due" throughout the year.  I spent part of my first week back catching up on these and Read More...
Determine Gender with Browser URL History
Mike on Ads has a fun tool for determining your gender based on your Browser URL History. My results? Surprise, I'm quite browsingly female :) Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 82% Likelihood of you being MALE is 18% The most interesting aspect of this Read More...
Popfly Game Creator: Games by Students
Alfred beat me to posting my own content :) We recently asked a number of students to use Popfly and submit a Popfly creation (a mash-up or a game). 10 of the games that were created were picked by the Popfly Team in the Games We Love http://popflywiki.com/GamesWeLove.ashx Read More...
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