Starting last week on March 5th after Silverlight 2 Beta 1 was announced, a lot has been said about Silverlight 2. Presentations have been given, demos have been shown, bits have been released, tutorials have been posted and many conversations have been had. As an attempt to catalog som…
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The ReStyle submission form is now ready to take contest entries. If you visit the page you will be asked for your EvNet credentials. What are those? They are what you use to comment with on Channel 10 or MIX Online. And if you don't have a SignIn there should be a ni…
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Since MIX06, I have been involved with the development of the MIX site one way or another. This year is no different, I'm just a sucker for conferences about the web, design and Microsoft technologies like, hmm let's see, Silverlight (among others). Today we've re-launched the ReStyle contes…
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[UPDATE:My video interview is now live on Channel 10]A large amount of my time last week was spent on a little project called Microsoft CoolWall. Tim Sneath already posted about the site going live this week and provided the story on how the app came to be: The application was originally prot…
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Recently I posted about the Remembering the "yet to install" audience, in regards to creating an experience that provides context for those who have not installed SIlverlight yet. The idea being that if your viewer visits your site and was greeted with the just the Silverlight instal…
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If you're like me and enjoying Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, you may notice that the Silverlight templates included with the Silverlight Tools for VS2008 are focused on the 1.1 alpha. This is great, but what if you dig Silverlight 1.0 and still want to use the latest and greatest f…
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I had a great time this weekend at the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco. I had never before been to a DevCamp, BarCamp or any other type of camp that happens indoors. The casual yet academic atmosphere was well set and provided for by our hosts Kurt Brockett, Kevin Marshall and Anand …
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It appears at the Ajax Experience conference going on this week, Yahoo! has released a add-on for Firebug which analyzes your page for possible performance issues. In other words its figuring out why your page may be slow, or in Yahoo terms YSlow. Its cute, it isn't it. Judging by m…
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I am planning to go to the Facebook Developer Garage event on Tuesday night at the Capitol Hill Arts Center. I've seen a few interesting Apps built on the Facebook platform and I can see the potential of the concept. Beyond testing and studying, I have been hung…
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After recently changing my feed over to FeedBurner I was happy to see that my latest "Note" had been imported into my Facebook profile. (In case you're not aware, Facebook has a cool feature which allows you to import posts from your blog into your profile which then become "Notes". …
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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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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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The REMIX Contest is live. This is your chance to show off your CSS and design skills and win yourself free admission to MIX07. Admission is awarded to the top three winners, and we are handing out Zunes with Accessory Packs to the top 10 honorable mentions. Mmm,…
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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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I messed around for a little bit, but to save yourself the time read the How to Enable ASP.NET 1.1 IIS7 article on IIS.Net. I'm still learning IIS7, but the more I dig into it the more impressed with it. I'm digging the Modular Architecture.…
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This is more a note to myself as most of those who care have already seen, but last Thursday we posted preview screenshots for the new look of Channel 9. A major portion of the work was devoted to a debate we had going on between Flat vs. Threaded view of forums. And now to finish…
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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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Duncan Mackenzie is now running his blog off of the Oxite codebase we put together. Its interesting when you are preparing code to be themeable and reusable. "Oh, did I hardcode my name in there..." We've got a few UI enhancement ideas to work through (Duncan's month archive list go…
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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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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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Yes, Scoble's leaving, everyone knows that. But the other day we were talking about the website improvements PodTech could use to really enhance their site (full list here), and it was interesting to hear him bring up the different issues. He's like a power user, who really knows…
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