TechNet EDGE is a new site developed by the EvNet team where the content is focused on ITPros. I'm not a big IT guy in any sense, but I wanted to congratulate my past team on launching another site based on the EvNet code base. They are now supporting Channel 8, Channel 9, Channel 10, MIX Onl…
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The EvNet dev team has updated the Channel 9 beta and you can tell they've put in a lot of work and they're excited about their work. Duncan's post about the beta even includes a video which involves a homage to HALO 3 using 9 guys. Unfortunately here at the DevCamp the bandwidth is a bi…
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This weekend the first signs of the new Channel 8 site become publicly visible as noticed by the Niners. Channel 8 is the last project I had worked on the EvNet team. A little early to be talking about the site, they appear to still be pushing content, but I wanted to congratulate the t…
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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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Earlier this year, I made a conscious effort to give my blog an overall theme to base my posts on. The concept of the "Devigner" is what I was going to go after, but due to the lack posts about this concept, its obvious that didn't work out. I still believe the idea is interesting, …
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Duncan wrote an article entitled And Along Came 10...* that talks about at a high-level how we started the codebase behind on10.net and the next version of Channel 9 some of the architectural decisions behind the scenes. This project, which has encompassed this whole year, has been a very…
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We've released dates, prices and an rss feed for updates. And if you take a quick look you'll notice the site domain name is http://visitmix.com. So as you can now see, Haacked, we won't have to end MIX in 09 :)Edit: This image is a reminder that I need to reskin my blog soon...…
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Sampy just posted the video he took of our team while we were posting the last update to 10. We were a bit giddy at getting this update at the door and I think that comes through in the video :)…
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Last week we updated the Microsoft 10 site. Jeff talks about it here, mainly covering the fact that the code update was written to prepare for the conversion of Channel 9 and reach the goal of one code base running on multiple sites. We've simplified the architecture down to four major c…
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I just noticed that the new documentation for developing Sidebar gadgets on Windows Vista RC1 is up and live on MSDN - Object Model Reference Dev Overview. I'm looking forward to working on some gadgets for Channel 9 and 10. A mini application using simple languages like JavaScript and H…
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The last time I updated my blog's code base, I started from scratch (again) and my mindset was "keep it simple". And a very simple one-person blog appeared. Well it was a little too simple, no trackbacks, referrals and no automatic pinging of blog services like ping-o-matic…
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I posted about the Starbucks Interactive Cup Brewer when it first came, but Duncan took it a step further and created this short hidden video on 10.…
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Check it out! Jeff has some more info and links here. Very excited to get this out there :) …
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We've been feverishly working on the new update to 10. No, its just an update its version 1.0. Its exciting, man, I go to the current site now and it just hurts my eyes, I can't wait to share the new site. BUT, its not ready yet, very close though (after I finish up the oth…
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