Nigel Parker's Outside Line
Juxtaposing the web, media and mobile for New Zealand developers.
WPF Ready for Win Forms Prime Time? The Xceed DataGrid for WPF.
There was an email thread going around the NZ .NET mailing list yesterday asking whether an...
Author: nparker Date: 01/24/2007
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released
Scott announced this morning that the final release of ASP.NET AJAX shipped this morning. There are...
Author: nparker Date: 01/23/2007
Rowan Simpson, Trade Me and Browser Wars 2.0
With the conversation going on regarding IE7's 100 million installation (thanks Tony), the...
Author: nparker Date: 01/17/2007
AJAX Security
This morning I was interested to read about a security hole that enabled you to steal someone else’s...
Author: nparker Date: 01/14/2007
Top Albums of 2006
Over the weekend I checked out the rolling stones top 50 albums of 2006 and thought I'd come up with...
Author: nparker Date: 01/14/2007
ContentPresenter.com
Following up from my post yesterday Lee has launched a new video tutorial site at...
Author: nparker Date: 01/09/2007
"Five Things You Probably Don't Know About Me"
I was wondering how long it was going to take to get tagged by this meme that is tracking the globe....
Author: nparker Date: 01/09/2007
CES Yahoo and Windows DreamScene
I have been linking to (Lee Brimelow) and https://thewpfblog.com for a while now. Check out what Lee...
Author: nparker Date: 01/08/2007
Rise and Shine
Do you have the mad phat music talent to get yourself on the radio in NZ? You have until Feb 27th to...
Author: nparker Date: 01/03/2007
What are you doing this Friday at 9:30am?
We'll be hosting our first ever live online technical chat with the WPF team at Redmond! No...
Author: nparker Date: 12/19/2006
Expand Your Portfolio... it's a wrap!
Hey there, Two weeks ago we met and presented to over 200 people from more than 85 companies across...
Author: nparker Date: 12/18/2006
New Expression Site & WPF/E CTP.
If you are able to join us on our UX tour of NZ this week I'd love to see you,...
Author: nparker Date: 12/04/2006
December UX Events
Do you build Flash/ AJAX/ CSS/ user centred UI’s for the web? Are you the one person in the business...
Author: nparker Date: 11/26/2006
SWF2XAML (Flash to XAML) - Mike's at it again!
Michael Swanson earlier in the year wrote a plugin for Adobe Illustrator that exports Al vector art...
Author: nparker Date: 11/21/2006
Bill Gates @ Stanford University
Gates - "we're at the beginning of something important again" in the development of technology
Author: nparker Date: 11/16/2006
Ohhh PodCast sooooo Web 2.0 (i think?)
Last year I did the book interview, last week it was my first podcast (if you don't count video 1 2...
Author: nparker Date: 11/16/2006
TradeMe Design!
I was talking to Rowan a few weeks ago and he mentioned that TradeMe was working on a new CSS...
Author: nparker Date: 11/15/2006
World Usability Day in Auckland
Paul Lo and I took some time out yesterday lunchtime to go on the... thanks Justine for organising...
Author: nparker Date: 11/14/2006
Auckland in 3D...
With all the talk about 3D lately I was very impressed with what was created when Weta Workshop...
Author: nparker Date: 11/11/2006
Photosynth
One of the true pieces of innovation I saw when I was up in Orlando a few months ago was Photosynth....
Author: nparker Date: 11/09/2006
Windows Vista has RTM'd
Read the press release here. The gold code for Vista and Office will be up on MSDN within the week,...
Author: nparker Date: 11/08/2006
Virtual Earth 3D
I saw a demo of Virtual Earth 3D a month ago and was impressed with the vision and possibilities of...
Author: nparker Date: 11/06/2006
We're Gold Baby! Now we can have some real fun!
Today we announced the RTM of the .NET Framework 3.0, availability of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for...
Author: nparker Date: 11/06/2006
Have you been to Zune.net?
Make sure you come back to Zune.net on November 10 for some exciting information about our launch...
Author: nparker Date: 11/05/2006
2007 Office System Developer Map
An updated version of the 2007 Office system developer map is live on MSDN. This is a cool all-up...
Author: nparker Date: 11/01/2006
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP has been released!
In terms of the Internet this is now old news (2 hours old in fact!) You can read all about it on...
Author: nparker Date: 10/18/2006
.NET Framework 3.0 eLearning clinics - Free Until the Launch of .NET 3.0!
This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET...
Author: nparker Date: 10/11/2006
Office File Conversion Utility
I was involved in the first day of our Office Developer Training in Auckland yesterday. I presented...
Author: nparker Date: 10/09/2006
Here we go again more company aquisitions IHUG, youtube...
The buy up of NZ companies to off shore investors has been happening quite a bit recently... I know...
Author: nparker Date: 10/09/2006
The Team at IE7 has told the world we're coming this month!
If you are a web developer or the owner of a large site... now is the time to make sure it works...
Author: nparker Date: 10/08/2006
Live Search
Try this... 1. Go to https://www.google.com/ 2. Type in "search" 3. Click "I'm Feeling Lucky" :) Also...
Author: nparker Date: 10/06/2006
Office Developer Training in October
Jonsie was out of the gates promoting some Office Developer Training that we have coming up in...
Author: nparker Date: 10/04/2006
Wallop out of the Gates!
When I was interviewing for my job at Microsoft a year and a half ago I did a presentation on social...
Author: nparker Date: 09/26/2006
Beta of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available now!
Read Soma's blog post to find out more!
Author: nparker Date: 09/26/2006
A hidden feature in the New York Times Reader
I was using the New York Times offline reader today and discovered a feature I hadn't seen before....
Author: nparker Date: 09/25/2006
Do you have a laptop with not much RAM and would like to run Vista on it?
I once tried to upgrade memory on a laptop and I know how expensive ($367 for 1GB) and painful the...
Author: nparker Date: 09/25/2006
Brilliant
Brilliant
Author: nparker Date: 09/25/2006
WPFery
A few .NET 3.0 applications are starting to be released... If you want to try these out install .NET...
Author: nparker Date: 09/18/2006
Great new overview article on WPF
There is a great new overview article on WPF posted at the Windows Vista Developer Centre, it...
Author: nparker Date: 09/17/2006
Driving instuctions to tonights party.
I have two mates 30th tonight at Ye Olde Bailey Pub, Ti Rakau Dve, Pakuranga. I don't know that part...
Author: nparker Date: 09/16/2006
WPF Times Reader
Richard has posted about the availability of the New York Times Reader... this is the first customer...
Author: nparker Date: 09/15/2006
Trinity Evolutions - The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta!
The code name was "Trinity" the name on the website is "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the...
Author: nparker Date: 09/14/2006
I am loving RockStar!
I'm a rocker from way back... I first saw Dave Navarro Janes Addicition play in Auckland in 1998......
Author: nparker Date: 09/14/2006
WPF Screencast of My Session from Tech.Ed
Overall attendees rated the WPF sessions the "Hottest" demos at Tech.Ed NZ... I have captured the...
Author: nparker Date: 09/11/2006
Ever wondered how much your friend paid for their house?
Unbelievable... look someone up in the https://www.whitepages.co.nz/ then find out what they paid for...
Author: nparker Date: 09/06/2006