Web Development Strategy @ Microsoft : ASP.NET / PHP / Silverlight / Java / UX
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In Love with Orchard
I’m so enamored with Orchard (https://www.orchardproject.net) that I’ve decided to make it my primary...
Date: 10/04/2010
SQL Server Driver for PHP Adds Support for PHP Data Objects
This week, Microsoft is participating in the DrupalCon San Francisco Conference at the Moscone...
Date: 04/19/2010
Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, ASP.NET 4 Released
Yesterday, Microsoft launched the final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, which...
Date: 04/13/2010
Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps
function webCamps() { day1.Learn(); day2.Build(); } Interested in learning how new innovations in...
Date: 04/09/2010
Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0
Optimizing Windows Server-based Web sites for search just got a lot easier now that the final...
Date: 03/25/2010
FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released.
Today the IIS team released the FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1. This allows popular...
Date: 01/19/2010
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy
Today, Microsoft announced a monthly spotlight series, beginning with the SEO Toolkit, an extension...
Date: 01/13/2010
Microsoft, Open Source and the CODEPLEX Foundation
Today the CodePlex Foundation announced the addition of the Orchard Project to it’s ASP.NET Gallery....
Date: 12/09/2009
Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension
What is it? The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the...
Date: 11/23/2009
Web 2.0 – What’s it all about?
Introduction Ask any ten people what Web 2.0 is and you’ll likely get ten different answers. Ask any...
Date: 11/12/2009
Dream it: Build It: Grow It – With the Microsoft Web Platform
The Internet and the Web are hardly new, but, with the rapid change and rapid innovation that is...
Date: 11/11/2009
Update to WebNEXT Blog
It’s been a little while since I’ve updated this blog, but there’s a lot of new content coming down...
Date: 11/10/2009
Free Silverlight 3 Book Preview Now available…
del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight For those of you who were not able to...
Date: 03/23/2009
March Madness is upon us
Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Basketball,March Madness Just a quick update from MIX. If you’re...
Date: 03/19/2009
One Last Riddle: Solve this and win a pass to MIX09
del.icio.us Tags: MIX09,Silverlight Technorati Tags: MIX09,Silverlight So, if you haven’t gotten...
Date: 02/19/2009
Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
The Patterns and Practices team @ Microsoft have been busy working on helping answer the question –...
Date: 02/18/2009
Think you have search engine skillz? Prove it and win a pass to MIX.
I’m glad you all enjoyed the last riddle, the answer to which was ‘Area 51’. I told the story in the...
Date: 02/13/2009
Solve the riddle, and get a free pass to MIX
Technorati Tags: Silverlight,MIX09 del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight,MIX09 As you may know, MIX is...
Date: 02/11/2009
Strangely Hypnotic Silverlight App
I just got this in my email from Denis Dollfus, and had to share it. It’s an extremely odd, and...
Date: 01/16/2009
MIX09 – Why YOU should be there.
Ok, so we turn on the news and we see economic crisis everywhere, we hear of layoffs and cost...
Date: 01/14/2009
Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :)
A few new Silverlight Apps from our friends in the Netherlands are definitely worth checking out....
Date: 01/12/2009
Silverlight and Otaku – A match made in heaven :)
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m an Otaku and I’m happy that I work in a job that allows me to...
Date: 01/07/2009
Silverlight and Windows Live
For those of you who have been asking about Silverlight and Windows Live, I’m now pleased to...
Date: 01/06/2009
Silverlight 2 Update for BiDirectional Text in Hebrew and Arabic
In its early days, Silverlight concentrated on being Web friendly with its text, meaning that the...
Date: 01/05/2009
Silverlight 2 Book – In Russian
del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight First of all I’d like to say a big Happy...
Date: 12/29/2008
Windows Azure
In my previous post, I was thoughtstreaming Ray Ozzie’s keynote. He’s just announced the name of the...
Date: 10/27/2008
Without Apps, there’d be Gaps – Blogging from PDC2008
I’m here at PDC 2008 (doing a book signing today of my ‘Introducing Silverlight 2’ book, wink wink),...
Date: 10/27/2008
Meet Silverlight Authors and Anders Hejlsberg at PDC
There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book...
Date: 10/23/2008
<3 your web, Vegas style, it’s MIX time again – MIX09 now open for registration…
del.icio.us Tags: MIX09,Silverlight Technorati Tags: Mix09,Silverlight It’s that wonderful time of...
Date: 10/22/2008
Ensuring that your JavaScript Silverlight applications work with Silverlight 2
Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight While Silverlight 2 was designed...
Date: 10/21/2008
Panoramic Deep Zoom -- Question of the Day -- Repost
If you want to learn how to stitch diverse photos together into a panorama, and then turn it into a...
Date: 10/19/2008
Where can I get the Silverlight 2 Bits? – Question of the Day
del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight So, you may have seen that we’ve finally...
Date: 10/13/2008
Introducing Silverlight 2 – Code updates for RC0/RTM
Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of you nice folks who bought my...
Date: 10/10/2008
Silverlight: Sharepoint Sweet Spot
del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight,Sharepoint Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Sharepoint Alliteration...
Date: 10/09/2008
Why don't Beta 2 sites work on RC0 - Question of the Day
Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight I've been getting a lot of...
Date: 10/09/2008
Silverlight RC0 and Beta 2 Side by Side: Question of the Day
A question I've been getting a lot since we released RC0 is this: 'When Microsoft does the RTW...
Date: 10/08/2008
Working at Microsoft: The Connector Bus
Technorati Tags: Microsoft If you are fortunate enough to work for MS in its Corporate HQ, they...
Date: 10/07/2008
DeepZoom your Office Documents!
Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight In a previous blog posting I...
Date: 10/06/2008
Windows 7 gets the BoyBand treatment
And who says Microsoft and PC's are for people in brown suits? :)...
Date: 10/03/2008
How to use Silverlight RC0 -- and some code updates for my Silverlight 2 book.
del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight RC0 Update: So,...
Date: 09/30/2008
Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 2 book
Just a quick note while I'm coming up for air :) I've had lots of questions around the release plans...
Date: 09/18/2008
Read about Silverlight in XPS
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Date: 07/29/2008
Introducing Silverlight 2: Table of Contents and bonus chapters!
Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of folks have been asking me...
Date: 07/24/2008
Introducing Silverlight 2: If you're having problems with the code...
del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight After the book was published, Microsoft...
Date: 07/24/2008