Official Job Listing on the career site Well its not exactly my old job, Duncan has taken over the dev lead role (Congrats to Duncan), but it does include a lot of the client and UI work I was handling. I like the skill set description they used: We are looking for someone who lives and breat…
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Two years ago on this very date of June 20th, I started my first day here at Microsoft. It was an exciting day, it was just new employee orientation, but it was my first job in a technical company with more than 20 employees. I was hired on to become the newest web developer on the coole…
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This is a fun way to sell polo shirts. The music is turned off so as not to startle you (this isn't MySpace), but it is worth listening to if you're not sitting in a meeting or a library. You can get your own customized UNIQLOCK here. Too bad the small version is too wid…
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I spent some time working on a Sidebar Gadget tonight and I ran into some issues once I was ready to gather live data. Cross-domain XMLHttpRequests are permitted in Sidebar gadget, which certainly adds much more value and possibilities. I found my bug and smashed it whole-heartedly, …
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Sometimes it's hard to tell what's going on...
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My 12-year old cousin, who goes by the handle JDMicro, has created a video for school and posted it on Soapbox. I think when I was his age I was rolling dice and designing character sheets on paper for AD&D...…
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Enjoying the featured video seat today on Channel 9, is an interview with Brian Beckman on simulating realistic physics in a real-time situation. Most likely if you are using physics like this it would be for a video game, although an OS that used real-time physics would be very interes…
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Back in March, Scott Guthrie made his debut appearance in a Red vs. Blue video packaged in a WPF/e player. Well since MIX07, WPF/e has become Silverlight and a new beta was released. Along with the beta came a few breaking changes which did in fact break the RvB player. Last …
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Drawn for my son, inked, scanned in and colored with Photoshop.
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I asked my five year old what she wanted me to draw. "A panda going down a slide." she said. I finished the sketch and then she asked "Can I paint it?" …
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MIX07 was awesome. I was involved in supporting the VisitMIX site, posting an array of Silverlight screencasts on Channel 9 and a few other community events. I was lucky enough to go a few sessions, including the WPF Comics session which impressed me enough that I had to blog a…
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