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SEC is the Toughest Conference in 2007
LSU is undisputed as the #1 team (despite fuzzy BCS math allowing LSU to leapfrog Georgia when Ohio...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/08/2008
Georgia Routs Undefeated Hawaii
For the past week, each sports writer covering the Georgia and Hawaii matchup could not resist two...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/02/2008
Vote for Knowshon Moreno as Best Freshman Player
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Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 12/04/2007
Windows Media Roadmap
Last week Scott Guthrie (ScottGu) provided a first look at the new .Net Web Technology Roadmap. It...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 12/04/2007
UGA to play Hawaii? Was USC that afraid of getting beaten?
I have to give props to Hawaii, the only team to go undefeated. But seriously, look at who they...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 12/03/2007
VS2008 and .NET 3.5 Ship Today
Soma announced that VS2008 and .NET 3.5 shipped today.Reading Don's post on the VS2008 ship date is...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 11/19/2007
Slide and Demos for Architecture Webcast Series - Designing and Creating Workflow Services
Thanks to everyone that attended today's session on Workflow Services. The slide and demos I used...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 11/14/2007
Architecture Webcast - Designing and Creating Workflow Services
You are invited to attend anArchitecture WebcastDesigning and Creating Workflow ServicesWednesday,...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 11/13/2007
Blame it on Halo 3
I meant to post this earlier, but... err, well, I couldn't get around to it... I was playing Halo 3....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/30/2007
Using Silverlight and AOL's Video Search
I had the pleasure of writing a series of articles for The AOL Developer Network, dev.aol.com. The...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/29/2007
Linking Live IDs
Tim Heuer has a post about a fantastic new feature of Live IDs. well when you go to a live...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/27/2007
Backing Up Your Zune
My laptop hard drive was running out of space, so I moved all of my music files to an external USB...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/23/2007
A Sad Day at AOL
Seems like there are some layoffs going on at AOL, and some really talented people are suddenly...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/16/2007
Now ScottGu Wants to Put Lutz Out of a Job, Too
First, it was Shawn Burke.Now, ScottGu wants to put Lutz out of a job, too.
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/05/2007
Architecture Webcast Series - Architecting the Customer Experience With WCF and Silverlight
Thought I would let everyone know about a webcast that I am putting on this Wednesday! I am going to...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/24/2007
UGA Beats Alabama in Tuscaloosa... Go Dawgs!
I was really dismayed about UGA's loss to South Carolina, knocking us down to 22 in the rankings....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/22/2007
Today's Woot.com offer - White Zune for $129
My teammate, David Jung, turned me onto Woot!. It's a site where they put one technology item up for...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/21/2007
Highlighting Activities in the AJAX Workflow Monitor Example
In my last post, I showed how you can use Jon Flanders's AJAX Workflow Monitor example with Visual...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/17/2007
Using the AJAX Workflow Monitor With .NET 3.5 Beta 2
Awhile back, Jon Flanders posted an excellent example of creating an AJAX enabled Workflow Monitor...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/17/2007
Hi, My Name is Kirk... How May I Help You?
I am going to be as blunt as possible... what do you want me to do for you? I am an Evangelist. My...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/12/2007
Understanding ParallelActivity in Windows Workflow
You might think that the ParallelActivity in Windows Workflow Foundation is misnamed. At the very...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/12/2007
Silverlight for Web Hosting Companies
With all the buzz around Silverlight and developing games and cool media demos, you don't hear much...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/11/2007
My Friend Rocky Tucker - His Murderers Still Walking Free
This is unbearable to read. https://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=101989 We are...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/11/2007
Getting Started With DSL Tools - Part II
I decided to install the August CTP for the Visual Studio 2008 SDK since I have been working solely...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/10/2007
The Third Pipe
The FCC is auctioning off the 700 MHz spectrum, which is currently being used to offer phone service...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/06/2007
Creating a JSON Service with WebGet and WCF 3.5
I couldn't let it go. Tim's post had me intrigued about how to convert RSS to JSON using some of the...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007
Use LINQ and .NET 3.5 to Convert RSS to JSON
Scott Guthrie posted a great example of how to create a feed reader using LINQ to XML. Today, I see...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007
Using WCF, JSON, LINQ, and AJAX: Passing Complex Types to WCF Services with JSON Encoding
In my previous post, I showed how to use the DataContractSerializer with the classes generated by...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007
Are you ready for some football?!?!
It's that glorious time of year again... time for College Football. If you are thinking, "so what?"...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/01/2007
WCF, AJAX, and Virtual Earth in Visual Studio 2008
Eric Ebell, working at one of our service provider customers in Atlanta, pinged me about a...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/15/2007
Host Workflow with ReceiveActivity or SendActivity in IIS
One of the cool features of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 is the introduction of the SendActivity...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/10/2007
Debug JavaScript in JSP or PHP Pages with Visual Studio 2008
I am simply amazed at the JavaScript debugging with Visual Studio 2008. The really cool part is that...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/10/2007
Write an AJAX-Enabled Web Page with Sorting, Paging, Inserting, Editing, Updating, Deleting... in 6 Minutes?!?
Ken Cox has a great web post, "Speed Test: A No-Code LINQ-Based ASP.NET 3.5 Page" that shows the...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/07/2007
Getting Started with Domain Specific Languages
I am just getting started with the DSL Toolkit. Admittedly, DSL has seemed like a black art, because...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/07/2007
Use Workflow to Invoke Web Services in Parallel
.style1 { background-color: #FFFF00; } The very first time I saw Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), I...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/03/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and Longhorn Server Event – July 13th, Alpharetta, Georgia
Visual Studio 2008 (formerly known as Visual Studio code name "Orcas") delivers on Microsoft's...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/02/2007