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Out Of The Box

The blog of Jon Box, an Architect Evangelist in Developer & Platform Evangelism, based in Tennessee

HTML5 and 3rd Grade Math

I have a 3rd grader at home, and he’s learning multiplication. Struggling with memorizing these...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 01/27/2011

Free Developer Bootcamp coming to Nashville and Region

  MSDN Events Presents: For the Win: Windows 7 Development Boot Camp Web and cloud may be all...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 01/25/2011

Family Photo TV Commercial

I’m sitting here watching the Rams and Seahawks play for their life on NBC Sunday Night Football,...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 01/02/2011

IE9 and HTML5 shine with Pirates Love Daisies

  Grant Skinner just announced a web-based, tower defense style game he built entirely in...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 12/17/2010

P&P publishes WP7 Developers Guide

  Windows® Phone 7 provides an exciting new opportunity for companies and developers to build...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 12/10/2010

Microsoft TENN is Hiring

  The Heartland District has an immediate opening for an Optimized Desktop Technology Solutions...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/19/2010

Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners

Clint Rutkas is one cool dude, and he proves it again right here. He and some friends have created a...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/17/2010

WP7 Marketplace Anti-Piracy Guidance

  The mobility team has delivered a whitepaper on securing your application. The outline looks...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/16/2010

Silverlight Firestarter–DEC 2nd, RSVP, FREE

You’re invited to a very special event on December 2nd, 2010 Learn about the future of Silverlight...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/12/2010

PDC10: Introducing HTML5 Vector Graphics

Presenter: Patrick Dengler, Senior Program Manager, IE team Presentation   Agenda intro to...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/11/2010

PDC10: Best Practices for Building Cross-Browser Web Applications

  Presenter: Tony Ross, Program Manager Presentation Note: the session PPT has good notes on...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/11/2010

PDC10: Taking Advantage of Pinned Sites with IE9 and Windows 7

Presenter: Israel Hilerio, Ph.D., Principal Program Manager Video Win7 Taskbar Overview taskbar...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010

PDC10: Unlocking the JavaScript Opportunity with IE9

Presenter: Gaurav Seth, Senior Program Manager, JavaScript runtime team video In This Session...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010

Notes from PDC10: Inside IE9 Performance

  Presenter: Jason Weber Video Lots of research, boiled down to 3 themes from developers...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010

Browsing the List of WP7 Applications

I’ve seen several MS folks pointing out this capability, so I just had to share this tidbit. To my...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/10/2010

PowerPoint 2010 and Broadcast

My manager just mentioned this feature of PowerPoint 2010, and it seems cool enough to share /...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/08/2010

Looking for a way to convert Adobe Illustrator assets to HTML5 Canvas ready markup?

  I’m not sure how well this works, but the idea certainly has lots of potential. As we’re all...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/20/2010

Displaying a Date in HTML without a NET

  For years now, I’ve worked in ASP.NET, which provides a lot of assistance – thus it’s reason...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/13/2010

New buzzword: IT-as-a-Service

In any major industry, like IT, life is constantly evolving, and new buzzwords come and go. Some...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/12/2010

Jeff Blankenburg’s series: 31 Days of Windows Phone 7

Fellow evangelist and Silverlight extraordinaire, Jeff Blankenburg starts his new WP7 series on...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 09/30/2010

IE9 Beta Launch And Pinned Sites

Yesterday was another milestone for the IE team. The Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta launch has...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 09/16/2010

Announcing IE9 Beta Launch, coming SEPT 2010

I was at an internal training session a couple of weeks back. And I saw lots of cool WP7 demo’s....

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/13/2010

Windows Phone Design Day Recordings

I looked forward to seeing what Jaime Rodriguez has posted: Windows Phone Design Day Recordings....

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/13/2010

Announcement: Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new product for non-programmers

Announced today at VS Live. From the LightSwitch site: Want to create custom business...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/03/2010

KT Video on WP7

In our inside world at Microsoft, we respectfully refer to Kevin Turner as KT – and when KT talks,...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/02/2010

Tools + Apps + Ambition = $$$

Mobile App Match is bringing the people who build Windows phone apps together with the people...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/23/2010

Windows Phone 7 hits Technical Preview status

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Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/21/2010

What is the Windows Azure platform appliance ?

On Monday, July 12th, I was at our Nashville office presenting to an internal Cloud training...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/16/2010

Microsoft by the numbers

Ok, I need to vent for a moment. As a Microsoft evangelist, you have to develop “thick skin”. And...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/01/2010

Check Out the new Windows Live Essentials beta

The Windows Live Essentials beta (part of our Wave 4 set of Windows Live releases)  is a big...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/25/2010

Internet Explorer 9, Platform Preview 3 hits the street

This week, the IE team continued to act on it’s commitment of releasing a technology preview every 8...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/25/2010

Sending Birthday Wishes on Facebook

I’ve been talking about IE add-on’s and specifically web slices for over a year now. Our team has...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/21/2010

IE8: Considering Web Slice Analytics

When talking to customers about web slices, we touch on several important topics. Naturally, we...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/07/2010

June Events in TN, OH

HEARTLAND – MI, OH, KY, TN TechNet Events Presents: Launch 2010 Highlights [IT Professional] Join a...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/03/2010

Online talk: What’s With All the Cloud Talk?

June 4, 2010 at 2:00pm – 3:00pm Central Title:  What’s with all the Cloud talk? Abstract What’s...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/25/2010

Teachers: A New Way to Engage Your Students, with Mouse Mischief

Microsoft Mouse Mischief is something the REAL teachers can use. If you already have a projector and...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/13/2010

More Lessons on Web Slices – opportunities with The Button

Well, I’m on a family trip today, but I had time to check out my teammate Taylor Cowan’s post on IE8...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/22/2010

Silverlight for Symbian Devices

You might think that this is a type-o, but it is not.  Microsoft has released a beta version of...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/19/2010

VS Team Executive Speaking in Memphis, Register Now

Cameron Skinner and Visual Studio 2010 (Friday, April 30, 2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) Event Details Have...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/17/2010

Silverlight 4 Hits the Web Today

Been a busy week of announcements and releases at Microsoft this week – like Visual Studio 2010 and...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/16/2010

Announcements: VS 2010 and .NET 4 Availability Today, and Silverlight 4 Later This Week

REDMOND, Wash. — April 11, 2010 — Kicking off a global launch consisting of more than 150...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/12/2010

Multiple Modes with Preview in the Same IE8 Accelerator

As a test, I wrote a simple page that would leverage preview and execute across multiple modes in...

Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/07/2010

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