Out Of The Box
The blog of Jon Box, an Architect Evangelist in Developer & Platform Evangelism, based in Tennessee
Windows Vista Vulnerability Report - Compare to Apple and Linux
Ran across this on Slashdot. There is a Microsoft employee who researched the vulernabilities and...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/03/2007
VB6 Migration Resources
This conversation comes up from time to time, so I wanted a record of this info. Important facts:...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/02/2007
So, You're Buying an iPhone?
It looks cool and they do a great job of advertising. But most people that I talk to who are...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/29/2007
Looking for Hotspots?
Working from home presents challenges and opportunity. It sounds like it would be a great thing -...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/28/2007
How To Get a Job At Microsoft
A request that seems to come up all the time for me in social circles, "how can I find a job at...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/22/2007
Where do I go instead of PDC?
My friends in Memphis will ask, "where should I go now that PDC is postponed?". Good question. I was...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/19/2007
With Application Center going away, what can I do?
Every once in a while, I'll get a question related to the future of Application Center capabilities,...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/19/2007
Another reason to upgrade to Vista - taught by Dave Bost
This week, I'm in Chicago with other DPE brethren attending a week long training class. I'm sitting...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/14/2007
A Gadget For Jon Box
Not a technical post today. If you don't know, I like baseball. I like the St. Louis Cardinals. I...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/13/2007
XCOPY is deprecated on Windows Vista
Another learning. Working at Microsoft in the field (like way out in the sticks, in other words -...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/09/2007
Window Mobile 6 Touchdown Mobility Tour in TN, OH, MI
Window Mobile 6 Touchdown Mobility Tour - An Introduction to the New Developer Features of Windows...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/07/2007
Acropolis and SCSF/CAB
I was reading John Mullinax's blog. He has an interesting post on Popfly where he built a HLD DPE...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/06/2007
ACS - A Potential Logging Solution?
OK, this is one of those posts for me - so you can stop reading this entry. In an internal thread...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/06/2007
devLink adds more big name speakers
I loved attending and speaking at devLink last year. It's always fun to meet 400 people who have the...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/05/2007
MIX08 is on the calendar - March 5-7
MIX07 was great! Now, MIX08 has a date, March 5-7, and back in Las Vegas at the Venetian. I've been...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/01/2007
arcReady in Memphis on June 11 (and other cities)
Architecting the next generation of software. The why, the what and the how. Microsoft’s journey...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/01/2007
Announcing Microsoft Surface
Today, I was with our team's DE presenting at a customer on VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. Before the...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/31/2007
Weather.Com's New Interactive Weather Map
In Memphis, we have plenty of storms in the spring - and we've had our share of tornados across the...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/15/2007
Enhancing Consumer Mobility with 2D Barcodes
<Complaint> The US is always behind in mobility. Asia is always 1+ years ahead. For example,...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/12/2007
Silverlight - starting to appear on real websites
I don't want this to really be my first post on Silverlight. My first post should be some thoughts...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/12/2007
Installing Windows XP after Vista?
Recently, some teammates and I received new hardware as part of a refresh program. It was like...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/12/2007
Who is Jon Box?
<Updated 3/8/2008 with Architect Journal article and Linked In tag> Whenever I start a new...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/09/2007