Out Of The Box
The blog of Jon Box, an Architect Evangelist in Developer & Platform Evangelism, based in Tennessee
HTML5 and 3rd Grade Math
I have a 3rd grader at home, and he’s learning multiplication. Struggling with memorizing these...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 01/27/2011
Free Developer Bootcamp coming to Nashville and Region
MSDN Events Presents: For the Win: Windows 7 Development Boot Camp Web and cloud may be all...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 01/25/2011
Family Photo TV Commercial
I’m sitting here watching the Rams and Seahawks play for their life on NBC Sunday Night Football,...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 01/02/2011
IE9 and HTML5 shine with Pirates Love Daisies
Grant Skinner just announced a web-based, tower defense style game he built entirely in...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 12/17/2010
P&P publishes WP7 Developers Guide
Windows® Phone 7 provides an exciting new opportunity for companies and developers to build...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 12/10/2010
Microsoft TENN is Hiring
The Heartland District has an immediate opening for an Optimized Desktop Technology Solutions...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/19/2010
Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners
Clint Rutkas is one cool dude, and he proves it again right here. He and some friends have created a...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/17/2010
WP7 Marketplace Anti-Piracy Guidance
The mobility team has delivered a whitepaper on securing your application. The outline looks...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/16/2010
Silverlight Firestarter–DEC 2nd, RSVP, FREE
You’re invited to a very special event on December 2nd, 2010 Learn about the future of Silverlight...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/12/2010
PDC10: Introducing HTML5 Vector Graphics
Presenter: Patrick Dengler, Senior Program Manager, IE team Presentation Agenda intro to...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/11/2010
PDC10: Best Practices for Building Cross-Browser Web Applications
Presenter: Tony Ross, Program Manager Presentation Note: the session PPT has good notes on...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/11/2010
PDC10: Taking Advantage of Pinned Sites with IE9 and Windows 7
Presenter: Israel Hilerio, Ph.D., Principal Program Manager Video Win7 Taskbar Overview taskbar...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010
PDC10: Unlocking the JavaScript Opportunity with IE9
Presenter: Gaurav Seth, Senior Program Manager, JavaScript runtime team video In This Session...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010
Notes from PDC10: Inside IE9 Performance
Presenter: Jason Weber Video Lots of research, boiled down to 3 themes from developers...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010
Browsing the List of WP7 Applications
I’ve seen several MS folks pointing out this capability, so I just had to share this tidbit. To my...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010
PowerPoint 2010 and Broadcast
My manager just mentioned this feature of PowerPoint 2010, and it seems cool enough to share /...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/08/2010
Looking for a way to convert Adobe Illustrator assets to HTML5 Canvas ready markup?
I’m not sure how well this works, but the idea certainly has lots of potential. As we’re all...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/20/2010
Displaying a Date in HTML without a NET
For years now, I’ve worked in ASP.NET, which provides a lot of assistance – thus it’s reason...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/13/2010
New buzzword: IT-as-a-Service
In any major industry, like IT, life is constantly evolving, and new buzzwords come and go. Some...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/12/2010
Jeff Blankenburg’s series: 31 Days of Windows Phone 7
Fellow evangelist and Silverlight extraordinaire, Jeff Blankenburg starts his new WP7 series on...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 09/30/2010
IE9 Beta Launch And Pinned Sites
Yesterday was another milestone for the IE team. The Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta launch has...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 09/16/2010
Announcing IE9 Beta Launch, coming SEPT 2010
I was at an internal training session a couple of weeks back. And I saw lots of cool WP7 demo’s....
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/13/2010
Windows Phone Design Day Recordings
I looked forward to seeing what Jaime Rodriguez has posted: Windows Phone Design Day Recordings....
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/13/2010
Announcement: Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new product for non-programmers
Announced today at VS Live. From the LightSwitch site: Want to create custom business...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/03/2010
KT Video on WP7
In our inside world at Microsoft, we respectfully refer to Kevin Turner as KT – and when KT talks,...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/02/2010
Tools + Apps + Ambition = $$$
Mobile App Match is bringing the people who build Windows phone apps together with the people...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/23/2010
Windows Phone 7 hits Technical Preview status
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Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/21/2010
What is the Windows Azure platform appliance ?
On Monday, July 12th, I was at our Nashville office presenting to an internal Cloud training...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/16/2010
Microsoft by the numbers
Ok, I need to vent for a moment. As a Microsoft evangelist, you have to develop “thick skin”. And...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/01/2010
Check Out the new Windows Live Essentials beta
The Windows Live Essentials beta (part of our Wave 4 set of Windows Live releases) is a big...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/25/2010
Internet Explorer 9, Platform Preview 3 hits the street
This week, the IE team continued to act on it’s commitment of releasing a technology preview every 8...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/25/2010
Sending Birthday Wishes on Facebook
I’ve been talking about IE add-on’s and specifically web slices for over a year now. Our team has...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/21/2010
IE8: Considering Web Slice Analytics
When talking to customers about web slices, we touch on several important topics. Naturally, we...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/07/2010
June Events in TN, OH
HEARTLAND – MI, OH, KY, TN TechNet Events Presents: Launch 2010 Highlights [IT Professional] Join a...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/03/2010
Online talk: What’s With All the Cloud Talk?
June 4, 2010 at 2:00pm – 3:00pm Central Title: What’s with all the Cloud talk? Abstract What’s...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/25/2010
Teachers: A New Way to Engage Your Students, with Mouse Mischief
Microsoft Mouse Mischief is something the REAL teachers can use. If you already have a projector and...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/13/2010
More Lessons on Web Slices – opportunities with The Button
Well, I’m on a family trip today, but I had time to check out my teammate Taylor Cowan’s post on IE8...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/22/2010
Silverlight for Symbian Devices
You might think that this is a type-o, but it is not. Microsoft has released a beta version of...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/19/2010
VS Team Executive Speaking in Memphis, Register Now
Cameron Skinner and Visual Studio 2010 (Friday, April 30, 2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) Event Details Have...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/17/2010
Silverlight 4 Hits the Web Today
Been a busy week of announcements and releases at Microsoft this week – like Visual Studio 2010 and...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/16/2010
Announcements: VS 2010 and .NET 4 Availability Today, and Silverlight 4 Later This Week
REDMOND, Wash. — April 11, 2010 — Kicking off a global launch consisting of more than 150...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/12/2010
Multiple Modes with Preview in the Same IE8 Accelerator
As a test, I wrote a simple page that would leverage preview and execute across multiple modes in...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/07/2010