The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009
Rich Fertile ground of Interactive development & design
A new blog design, and I'm moving on..
Last year I spent a great deal of time studying research papers, articles, bloggers, anything...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/19/2008
Xobni is Inbox backwards (Outlook addon)
Every now and then some goodness comes across my inbox and this product is shaping up to becoming a...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/10/2008
Becoming a Web Partner with Microsoft?
I was meeting a customer this week and he was telling me about how impressed he was with our Partner...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/10/2008
Silverlight: Instant YouTube out of the box.
“..I’ve got this idea, and it’s a way to do a job that is better than what YouTube...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/10/2008
Interview: Cynergy Systems' Dave Wolf
When you first type in https://labs.cynergysystems.com you are presented with a matrix style...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/08/2008
2008 Prediction: The year of the RIA Device Discussion.
Like most technology bloggers today, I also will take a stab at a prediction for 2008. The...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/05/2008
Deep Linking in Silverlight
An anonymous message via my MSN Messenger housed within the blog gave me this URL. It appears to be...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/03/2008
Welcome to 2008
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2008.. Resolutions for this year: Enjoy more time with the family...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/31/2007
Jeff Prosise Goes Deep on Silverlight
I was listening to the latest .NET Rocks Podcast and was glad that Jeff Prosise was deflecting some...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/30/2007
RE: Silverlight 3.0 Wishlists
A few days ago I blogged about how I'm seeing Silverlight 3.0 wishlist(s) popping up all over the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/29/2007
Flip4Mac supports Silverlight.
Well hot off the wire, Flip4Mac apparently enables folks to export into Silverlight for the web....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/28/2007
Ok.. the best Silverlight XMAS eCard on the Net..
Michael "Delicate Genius" Kordahi sent this around via internal mail and it was a great...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/23/2007
LiveNet 0.2 Released..
I stumbled upon this blog entry over at spaces.live.com, where Scott Lovegrove (MVP) has put...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/22/2007
Dear Santa, in Silverlight 3.0 can you put..
Ok, I've read about the 9th "I wish Microsoft would.." style blog post floating around on...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/21/2007
Who builds video sites these days anyway?
Well, lots actually. Take today, I woke up around 7am to get a start on some ideas / projects I've...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/17/2007
RIA Designers are smart.
One thing annoys me more than anything in this world, is when I hear folks whom aren't designers...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/12/2007
Adobe's Flex and a Curious Definition of "Open" for RIA Platforms
In my RSS hunt & aggregate daily routine, I stumbled upon an article that initially made me...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/12/2007
Exploring a different horizon.
I often get queries, questions and so on around why I on one hand wear the Microsoft logo on my...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/12/2007
Dear Designer, How would you Design Microsoft?
You've seen our online community sites, you've seen our products. How would you design Microsoft...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/07/2007
Putting the Rich in RIA : User Account Profiles.
A User Account Today. Typically when you set out to build a RIA, you look at what data you're about...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/02/2007
Server vs Client - Comic Strip.
Well, Nectarine have done it again. I want to adopt this company, raise them to be the sons &...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/28/2007
I dumped $10k into Apple and I use Vista?
Joshua Allen and fellow Visitmix.com blogger posted the other day around how 10% of new Windows...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/27/2007
Usage Metrics in your RIA
Inspiration comes from Games. I was at MIX ON CAMPUS (Brisbane) today and I was listening to one of...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/20/2007
SpringFramework.NET Introduction.
I was about 30% of the way writing the introduction to SpringFramework.NET for newbies, when it...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/18/2007
SpringFramework.NET, Never Heard of it..
I've asked around 10 .NET developers tonight whether they've heard of this framework and the answer...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/18/2007
MIX On Campus - Brisbane (QUT)
On Tuesday 20th, I'll be attending MIX On Campus, a concept that our Nicholas Ellery has single...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/18/2007
Brisbane BarCamp
A few weeks ago, Peter Ward contacted me about setting up Brisbane BarCamp, we had lunch, threw some...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/18/2007
POC #1 - Project Harmony (pt1) (Silverlight & Flash)
I've been enjoying the overall experience of what Silverlight has to offer since I started with...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/15/2007
XNA Gamers wanted.
Mission: To get XNA in the hands of trillions, in order to ensure XBOX Games like Halo3 continue to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/12/2007
Writing Proof of Concept RIA's
When you sit down one night and decide to road-test a theory or an idea you have, then a Proof of...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/11/2007
Feel like abusing or praising me direct?
This month I dub thee "Live.com" month, as clearly there is a lot of new toys coming out...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/07/2007
Brisbane Game Development User Group.
If you're in Brisbane Australia (thereabouts), and have a game within you just busting out, then...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/05/2007
No Planes, No Conferences, No Meetings
I've been traveling quite a lot this year and meet with some amazing folks in the process. Well, my...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/04/2007
RIA: 10 Questions on Icon Design - I ask our Microsoft Design folks to respond.
I have an Icon fetish that is disturbingly wrong. In that I collect them, horde them and will...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2007
RIA Hopeful: Chore Wars.
I was browsing the web and I stumbled upon "ChoreWars". A brilliant concept, whereby...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/27/2007
Mozilla, Adobe and Silverlight. Shall we dance?
No doubt you've seen the Prism announcement by Mozilla. Quite an interesting move in this chess game...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/26/2007
SilverlightAIR - Silverlight + Java Webstart.
I got a question the other day that kind of threw me. In that, someone asked if we were going to do...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/24/2007
RIA: Difference between an Application and Website.
There are many things that make up a RIA today. I posted last week about Interactive vs Internet,...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/24/2007