Synergist
Combining Software in Amazing Ways
A Silverlight Hanukkah Gift
Here is a Silverlight Hanukkah gift that I made in about a half hour. The candles should start...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/04/2007
Comparing Web Servers to Streaming Media Servers
Chris Knowlton wrote this blog post earlier this year comparing web servers to streaming media...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/03/2007
.Net Web Product Roadmap including Windows Media
My colleague Harry Mower just posted a great article about the roadmap of our technology roadmap as...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/03/2007
Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
It's not Dinosaurs in the office, but it is cool: Take a look at the latest marketing campaign to...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/03/2007
PhizzPop Design Challenge in Los Angeles, CA
My colleague Will Tschumy has just posted the problem statement for the PhizzPop Design Challenge in...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/03/2007
Profiling ASP.Net Page Loading Time
At a recent user group meeting, one of the developers brought up an issue where he was getting slow...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/03/2007
Communications as a Service (CaaS)
My colleague Joe Hofstader just got an article published on MSDN. Here's a summary: Being an...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/30/2007
Webinar Recording Available: Better Online Technical Documents - Building a Word 2007 Add-in to create WPF Flow Documents
I just posted the recording of the webinar that I did today showing a Word 2007 Add-in that creates...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/29/2007
Silverlight Media Encoding Q&A With Ben Waggoner
What encoding settings should I use for Expression Encoder for HD Video? How should I encode...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/27/2007
Heading to Mix and South by Southwest!
March 2008 will be a very busy month for me. First I will be going to Mix in Las Vegas, March 5-7,...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/27/2007
Popfly as a Platform
I have been showing off Popfly as a great example of a Silverlight 1.0 application but my colleague...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/27/2007
I Stand Corrected: Webdings do not come with Silverlight
Last month, I wrote this blog post on how I was using the Webdings typeface to create graphics for...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/26/2007
Silverlight on Mac Install Experience
Mike Downey, Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe Systems, wrote a comment to my blog post...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/25/2007
Creating a Simple Volume Control
One of my customers asked me how to make a volume control for his custom media play in Silverlight...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/24/2007
Adding "Press Play" to a Silverlight Media Player
I just added an animated "Press Play" graphic to the Silverlight Media Player created with...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/23/2007
Encoding Formats for Silverlight Video
As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/21/2007
Spock in Popfly
What is Spock? It's a search engine for people you know on the Internet. If you search for me,...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/21/2007
Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight
Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/20/2007
Using the Windows Live Spaces Photo Control with Silverlight
I was just able to figure out how to use the Windows Live Space Photo Control and get it to serve up...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/18/2007
Recovering from Knee Surgery
My knee has been troubling me for the past few months because of a torn Meniscus. This afternoon I...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/09/2007
How OpenSocial Complements Silverlight
Over the weekend, my challenge was to learn about OpenSocial and create a Silverlight application...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/06/2007
Understanding what OpenSocial Isn't
After getting two similar questions from colleagues today about my first OpenSocial application, it...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/04/2007
Silverlight in OpenSocial!
So Google made a big announcement last week about OpenSocial. I saw that as something very...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/04/2007
Having Fun with Popfly
I'm having a blast with Popfly, Microsoft's Silverlight-based mash-up designers. I've created a...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/02/2007
My First Popfly Mashup: Earthquakes!
I just sat through an earthquake; a bit shaking but nothing damaged; no one was hurt. That gave me...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/31/2007
A Pragmatic View on Silverlight
My colleague Denny Boynton recently posted a great blog post with a very pragmatic view on...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/30/2007
Silverlight Deployment Guide
If you are looking to deploy Silverlight broadly throughout your organization, my colleague Dave...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/29/2007
Microsoft Gives away Mona Lisa with Silverlight!
If you're a software developer and not a graphic artist, you might be a bit overwhelmed when you...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/29/2007
Webinar Recording & Source Code Posted: Creating a Vista Gadget & Web Player for your Radio/TV Station
I just posted the source code from Friday's webinar on Creating a Vista Gadget & Web Player for...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/28/2007
Job Opening for Developer Evangelist at Microsoft in San Francisco
I've got a secret: the best job at Microsoft is Developer Evangelist and we're looking for more...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/27/2007
MOSS Camp in Chicago November 9th
If you want to become the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) that you always dreamed to be...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/25/2007
Upcoming Webinar: Monitoring .Net Applications with Intercept Studio
During the development, testing, and deployment of any application it is important to understand how...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/24/2007
Upcoming Webinar: Better Online Documentation: Creating WPF FlowDocuments from Word 2007
One of the challenges with creating online documentation is readability, especially with long...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/24/2007
Posted SilverlightMap code to SkyDrive and Popfly
I've decided to share the source code for my SilverlightMap project that converts Mindjet...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/22/2007
Contributing to MSDN Documentation
This Friday I will be giving a web presentation on building a Silverlight-based Windows Vista gadget...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/22/2007
Who Can Train My Team on Silverlight & Expression Studio?
I get asked this question too often. Here are three great resources - in no particular order:...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/18/2007
Should I put the Silverlight Map code on CodePlex or SkyDrive?
One of the first things that I created at Microsoft built on my previous experience at Mindjet, the...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/17/2007
Updated Groove Workspace with Virtual Earth 6
Virtual Earth has just been updated to Version 6 with a much cooler user interface. I downloaded the...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/17/2007
Recording of Silverlight & Web Analytics Webinar
Here is a link to the recording of the webinar that I just hosted on Silverlight and Web Analytics....
Author: Synergist Date: 10/16/2007
Whitepaper on Silverlight and Web Analytics
As many of you may know, I have been working to understand how Silverlight applications can best...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/16/2007
Heading to Tulsa TechFest
Having never been to Tulsa, I was excited when David Walker invited me to talk about Silverlight at...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/13/2007
Silverlight Application Architecture
One thing that I find very refreshing is that people with software development backgrounds are...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/13/2007
More Detail on When to use Which Presentation Technology
Back in July, I created a simple grid of when to use which Microsoft presentation technology. I did...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/11/2007
Who Knows Silverlight?
Author: Synergist Date: 10/10/2007
Fixing Memory Leaks in Silverlight Code
I did something bad. I put some sample code for a Silverlight application on my blog that ate memory...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/08/2007
Mindjet Should Hire These Guys!
Four guys out of Bulgaria just built this .Net application for mind mapping. It looks really cool...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/07/2007
Using Tags for Simple Hyperlinks in Silverlight 1.0
One of the features that I was glad to see added to Silverlight 1.0 was the Tag attribute which can...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/06/2007
A Simple Buffering Progress Indicator for Silverlight
A customer of mine is creating a cool video sharing site with Silverlight and wanted to see some...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/04/2007
Other Silverlight SEO Techniques
The technique described in my previous post will work for Silverlight solutions that generate XAML...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/03/2007
Simple Silverlight SEO with ASP.Net and XSLT
A common practice with Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) is to expose the text as hidden DIV...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/03/2007