Mark Johnston's Blog
Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals Korea - armchair viewing...
I'm stuck back here in the UK with a mountain of work to get through so canceled my flight and have...
Author: markjohnston Date: 08/05/2007
Dotcom boom in the UK
According to an article in the Guardian the vast majority of venture capital money coming into...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/31/2007
'Microsoft,Robot' - Robotics Studio
I think we are a while away from the futuristic US Robotics controlled world depicted in the movie...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/31/2007
MSDN Roadshow 2007
I have recorded the demos for my session at the MSDN Roadshow for posterity. I covered the Rich...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/30/2007
6 Silverlight Screencasts (MSDN Nuggets)
I've finally got round to uploading some short MSDN Nuggets looking at particular features of...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/30/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available
VS 2008 Beta 2 is now available for download (and with a 'go live' license) - Go grab it from MSDN...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/27/2007
Mix UK is event registration is live
Ian has the scoop on Mix UK event site going live. Great news for all web developers and designers...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/26/2007
XNA Chief - We need interesting curriculi
Andy and Ed were down at Games:Edu yesterday with Chris Satchell talking about the academic programs...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/25/2007
Channel8 is now live
As per my earlier post, Channel 8 has gone live and is looking very good. There is only one video up...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/21/2007
Expression Blend book
I haven't seen this posted elsewhere so thought it worth punting onto my blog. There is now a book...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/16/2007
Microsoft UK Student page goes live - built on Silverlight
I haven't been part of the development but it's good to see this finally go live. We've been...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/13/2007
Channel9, on10....Channel 8 is coming....
It's going to be funky with a logo like that! And you can probably guess who it's targeted at given...
Author: markjohnston Date: 07/12/2007
Imagine Cup UK team video talking about the development of their entry and journey to Korea
Just got this video from the UK winners of the Imagine Cup Software Design finalists talking about...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/27/2007
Silverlight and Expression screencast tutorials
I do have some on the way on our MSDN UK Nuggets site but in the mean time check out this very slick...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/22/2007
Mix is coming to Britain in September 2007
Ian Moulster has the skinny on Mix UK on 11/12 September - it is going to be a brilliant event for...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/22/2007
Popfly is top website to watch!
PCWorld named Popfly as one of it's top 25 websites to watch and I guess is #1 as it's right at the...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/20/2007
Slide 7 session slides and demos
You have one of those days when demos don't work perfectly and today was one of them. Thankfully all...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/18/2007
Happy with my new Lenovo PC
If any of you have followed this blog since its inception you will know that I have spent the last 9...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/17/2007
Silverlight on Microsoft.com
Sean Alexander posted that Silvelright is now on Microsoft.com promoting the very cool new product...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/17/2007
WPF Hands on lab - building an Outlook clone
One of the questions I get asked most when talking about Windows Presentation Foundation is around...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/13/2007
MSDN Roadshow 2007 is over
As Martin and Mike have both blogged about, the last re-run of this year's MSDN Roadshow took place...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/13/2007
Safari on Windows...lucky I just handed my Mac back too...
I'm handing my Macbook Pro back to my manager as I've changed jobs and will be doing less stuff...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/11/2007
Silverlight, Ink and Sidebar gadgets is a nice combo
Gavin Gear has posted a sample on his blog of how to get Silverlight content into Vista's sidebar...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/11/2007
A 100% subsidised conference for UK Academics - too good an opportunity to pass up!
On the 26th and 27th June, in Kidderminster we will be hosting UK academics interested in...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/07/2007
Last.fm sells for 140m of her majesty's pounds
One of my favourite music sites, Last.fm, has been bought by a US media company, CBS, for £140m...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/31/2007
Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime
I was talking to my new teammate, the honorable Dr. Andrew Sithers (not sure if he honorable or not,...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/24/2007
NxtGenUG on Channel9 - the night of the presentation in the plane
Back in January the team hit the road for a week long series of presentations at software companies...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/22/2007
For all Windows Mobile Bubblebreaker fans, now on Silverlight
Bill Reiss, an XNA/DirectX MVP, has ported his Dr Popper game (like Bubblebreaker on Windows Mobile...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/17/2007
Random presenting experience
I thought it was too weird/funny not to post about. I was presenting yesterday on Silverlight to a...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/17/2007
WindowsClient.net community for rich-client/desktop developers
Ian Moulster has the scoop on WindowsClient.net launching - it is a new site focused at developers...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/14/2007
Silverlight on Windows Mobile: early prototype video
I didn't expect to see this kind of stuff demo-ed so soon after the Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/08/2007
Silverlight Mindmap
Ian Blackburn, here in the UK, has created a Mindmap to help developers, designers, etc understand...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/04/2007
An introduction to WPF for academics
In my old job, I used to spend a lot of time talking to academics about curriculum development...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/03/2007
Silverlight Mix07 keynote demo available for download
During Scott Guthrie's keynote demo, he coded up a cool airline demo using Silverlight (you know the...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/02/2007
Silverlight Developer Reference poster
I'm still not out in Vegas but am enjoying all the great stuff coming out around Silverlight...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/01/2007
Silverlight 1.1 Getting started?
With all the big announcements from Mix yesterday (I've been catching up throughout the day on the...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/01/2007
End to end WPF demo - Family.Show
Vertigo Software have just shipped Family.Show (family history explorer - stuff that my Dad would...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/30/2007
Silverlight DreamScene content available
Barak has the skinny on the recently published DreamScene video background that gives you the uber...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/30/2007
Everyone is at Mix but me, but I can still play along at home...
It looks like a lot of my group are out in Las Vegas for Mix to hear about all the wonderful things...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/30/2007
3rd party Silverlight controls available already
Looks like someone is quick off the mark. Telerik has released a set of UI controls for Silverlight...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/27/2007
Adobe and Microsoft's RIA offerings
Via Scott Barnes v A great article from Ryan Stewart (covers a lot of the RIA world) on the...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/23/2007
Visual Studio 'Orcas' Beta 1 available online
Available to MSDN subscribers and coming online to Microsoft.com/downloads shortly. Soma Somasegar...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/19/2007
agHost in Silverlight
I've known about the name for Silverlight for a while and even so never put 2 + 2 together when it...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/17/2007
"WPF/E" becomes Silverlight
At NAB this week in Las Vegas, we have announced the product name for "WPF/E" and that is...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/16/2007