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Juxtaposing the web, media and mobile for New Zealand developers.
TechEd New Zealand Keynote – 3 Screens and a Cloud Demo
During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the...
Author: nparker Date: 10/08/2010
The New Trade Me API and Windows Phone 7 Developer Competition
Remember the post from Rowan Simpson from May 2007? Why doesn’t Trade Me have an API? At the...
Author: nparker Date: 09/30/2010
TechEd NZ - From Research to Reality. A Demofest of Innovation
At Tech.Ed Hilary and I delivered a breakout session titled From Research to Reality. A Demofest of...
Author: nparker Date: 09/14/2010
Pivot View of Netflix Instant Watch Movies
The PivotViewer Silverlight control shipped this morning, which means you can now embed a Pivot...
Author: nparker Date: 06/29/2010
New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events
This week Ben Gracewood, Chris Klug, Keith Patton and myself delivered three Windows Phone 7...
Author: nparker Date: 06/18/2010
NZ Herald/ Yahoo Daily Deals Delivered via Web Slices in IE8
Recently I have been having a lot of fun building a competition Slice of Kevin intended in part to...
Author: nparker Date: 06/17/2010
IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game
The more I see of IIS Media Services 4 the more I observe the fundamental shift away from...
Author: nparker Date: 05/11/2010
Visual Studio 2010 with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2
Sorry about the missing links in the latest MSDN Flash editorial that I wrote! I posted it as it...
Author: nparker Date: 05/09/2010
An Hour With Bill Buxton – MIX10
After spending a couple of hours with Rowan Simpson yesterday afternoon I found myself continually...
Author: nparker Date: 05/03/2010
Silverlight 4 – What Devs Need to Know
Tim Heuer has done a great post on the Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement....
Author: nparker Date: 04/19/2010
Photosynth Panoramic Deep Zoom Mosaic
18 years ago ‘Virtual Reality’ was all the rage… remember The Lawnmower Man? 16 years ago Apple came...
Author: nparker Date: 04/05/2010
Visual Studio 2010 & Windows Azure Launch
If you’re involved in any capacity with software development, or want to understand more about cloud...
Author: nparker Date: 03/31/2010
TEDx Auckland - Failure is the Best Possible Outcome
Last October I was honored to present at TEDx Auckland. The topic I chose to talk about was one that...
Author: nparker Date: 03/23/2010
IE9 - HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
At the MIX conference, we demonstrated how the standard web patterns that developers already know...
Author: nparker Date: 03/23/2010
MIX10 Windows Phone 7 Content Overview
The tools available at MIX 10 and for public download are a Community Technology Preview, while not...
Author: nparker Date: 03/23/2010
The Orchard Project – Planting a Few Seeds
Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and...
Author: nparker Date: 03/22/2010
A Closed Mind Killed the Retail Star
I’m on the plane flying back to New Zealand and I’m astonished how quickly things have changed since...
Author: nparker Date: 03/21/2010
All Hail The Gu
This afternoon I found myself kicking around in Vegas after MIX waiting for a flight to San...
Author: nparker Date: 03/19/2010
Silverlight IE8 Web Slice + Desktop Application + Windows Phone 7 Series
In our hotel room after Day 1 of MIX Gus from NV Interactive and I had an hour to kill for dinner....
Author: nparker Date: 03/15/2010
NV Interactive - New Zealand Cricket Match Centre Silverlight Web Slice
Anyone who follows me on twitter knows that I’m a huge cricket fan, so it has been particularly...
Author: nparker Date: 02/25/2010
Webstock Day 1
The Webstock conference opened this morning to an eager collection of passionate webbies. Having...
Author: nparker Date: 02/17/2010
Experience Webstock Behind the Scenes @ Workit.co.nz
If you aren’t lucky enough to be down in Wellington for the awesome Webstock conference this week...
Author: nparker Date: 02/17/2010
Windows Phone 7 Series Revealed
Today at Mobile World Congress we are not simply announcing the existence of...
Author: nparker Date: 02/15/2010
Bing Maps Shows the Future at TED
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the...
Author: nparker Date: 02/14/2010
The Pollinator
I wrote previously about Click Suite, Auckland Museum + the ‘Hybridiser’ as part of Wonderland: The...
Author: nparker Date: 02/02/2010
Azure, Webstock and Jeff Atwood
Jan 2010 MSDN Flash Editorial Welcome Back! 2010 is kicking into full steam and there are a number...
Author: nparker Date: 01/20/2010
Join WebsiteSpark with Kentico Software in New Zealand and get a Free License of Kentico CMS Professional Edition.
I’m happy to announce that Kentico Software has today come on board as a new Global Network Partner...
Author: nparker Date: 12/15/2009
Trade Me - .NET Developers Wanted!
Alan Howard, head of development at Trade Me pinged me last night about an expansion of their dev...
Author: nparker Date: 12/09/2009
My Pakari Tree Photo on Flickr is Getting Some Lovin
I took this photo at Pakari some years ago… I offered it up to the Textures for Layers group on...
Author: nparker Date: 11/29/2009
PDC Day 2 – Silverlight 4
If Windows Azure was the big topic on day 1 of the PDC conference in LA. For me Silverlight 4 was...
Author: nparker Date: 11/20/2009
PDC Day 1 – Windows Azure
Windows Azure was the big topic on day 1 of the PDC conference in LA. Ray Ozzie opened the...
Author: nparker Date: 11/19/2009
Silverlight & Te Papa
It was 6 months ago to the day that I first wrote about a workshop that we ran in Wellington getting...
Author: nparker Date: 11/17/2009
Stop: It’s Hammer Time!
Microsoft New Zealand & Xbox 360 is pleased to welcome MC Hammer to New Zealand on November 12,...
Author: nparker Date: 11/12/2009
Microsoft UNPLUGGED Update - December 2009
Join us in December 2009 for the latest Microsoft UNPLUGGED Update. Come to TechNet morning for IT...
Author: nparker Date: 11/09/2009
The Great New Zealand Internet Slow-Down
I have been having problems recently with my international Internet connection slowing down during...
Author: nparker Date: 11/03/2009
The ONYAs Closing Soon
I’m very happy to announce that we (Microsoft NZ) has chosen to sponsor Webstock again in 2010. Once...
Author: nparker Date: 11/02/2009
FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome and Firefox running together on Windows 7 in Windows XP Mode
When you buy Windows 7 (pro or ultimate) you get Windows XP "virtualized" for free. What this means...
Author: nparker Date: 10/12/2009
Air New Zealand Fashion Week Finale!
I convinced Michael Ng (the official photographer) for Air New Zealand Fashion week to attempt a...
Author: nparker Date: 09/25/2009
Giorgio Sardo's NZ IE8 Road Trip + Web Application Toolkits
I really enjoyed hosting Giorgio in New Zealand during Tech.Ed and for a couple of days after the...
Author: nparker Date: 09/24/2009
Announcing Microsoft WebsiteSpark
WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web...
Author: nparker Date: 09/24/2009