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January 2009 - Posts

Strangely Hypnotic Silverlight App

I just got this in my email from Denis Dollfus , and had to share it. It’s an extremely odd, and strangely hypnotic app. Would make a great screensaver :) Read More...
Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 3:21 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments

MIX09 – Why YOU should be there.

Ok, so we turn on the news and we see economic crisis everywhere, we hear of layoffs and cost cutting and rumors of depression. Well, I’m a rose-tinted-glasses kind of guy, and I firmly believe that it is at times like this that the smarter investor sows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:49 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments
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Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :)

A few new Silverlight Apps from our friends in the Netherlands are definitely worth checking out. First up is Monteverdi.tv, a portal for classical music events, built in PHP, but which delivers Silverlight: http://live.monteverdi.tv/rco/view.php It allows Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 9:24 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Silverlight and Otaku – A match made in heaven :)

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m an Otaku and I’m happy that I work in a job that allows me to visit Otaku heaven (Akihabara) once or twice a year. Anyway, it was only a matter of time before someone used Silverlight to build a site for Otaku like me Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:23 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 4 Comments
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Silverlight and Windows Live

For those of you who have been asking about Silverlight and Windows Live, I’m now pleased to announce that Windows Live downloads will include Silverlight in the installation. If you haven’t already tried the Windows Live applications, I thoroughly recommend Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:05 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 13 Comments
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Silverlight 2 Update for BiDirectional Text in Hebrew and Arabic

In its early days, Silverlight concentrated on being Web friendly with its text, meaning that the number of fonts were constrained to those that would be available on most computers. On this blog I listed a number of workarounds for languages such as Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 11:12 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Book Review – Building an Olympics-based Website.

  Mimi Chau of the Asian media center and Asia-Pacific news agency has just published a book on what it takes to build and develop the design parameters for a digital media center. She uses the huge showcase of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 as the Read More...
Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 11:14 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments
 
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