Windows Live Quantum Mechanics
Windows Live client side web application development according to Windows Live Quantum Mechanic Danny Thorpe.
Leaving Microsoft
As I've been wrapping up our 2nd generation cross-domain in-browser communication channel API, I've...
Date: 10/05/2007
TMobile HotSpot at Home Phones Get Smarter
TMobile announced this week the addition of the Blackberry 8230 "Curve" to the list of cell phones...
Date: 09/27/2007
Halo 3 Launched!
Halo 3 has officially hit the streets! Besides the game itself, check out the supporting info on the...
Date: 09/24/2007
MIX07 UK Podcast with Craig Murphy
I sat down with Craig Murphy to chat about Windows Live and life in general at MIX07 UK. Craig has...
Date: 09/24/2007
MIX07 UK Blogging
The title of honorary MIX07 UK stenographer goes to Sebastien Lambla (aka SerialSeb)for transcribing...
Date: 09/14/2007
PodCast Interview on LiveSide.Net
Angus and I had a chat with the guys from LiveSide.Net during the MIX07 UK conference this week....
Date: 09/14/2007
The Casual Traveler
Angus laments getting hit unusually hard by jet lag on this UK trip. This is particularly amusing...
Date: 09/11/2007
Blogging at ReMix07 London
I'm sitting next to Angus in the back row of the ReMix07 London keynote. Angus is blogging in...
Date: 09/11/2007
Halo 3 Promo Videos Running on Silverlight Streaming
The promotional campaign for the new Halo 3 FPS has begun with a series of in-game and thematic live...
Date: 09/04/2007
MSN's The Podium 08 - Built On Silverlight
MSN just launched The Podium '08 as part of their 2008 US Presidential election coverage. The Podium...
Date: 08/24/2007
Windows Live SkyDrive
Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly known as Folders) is now in beta, enabling end users to store...
Date: 08/15/2007
New In The Windows Live Contacts Control: Incremental Search!
Another month, another release! This month we've added incremental search to the contacts and...
Date: 08/08/2007
Black Pixels Cost Less?
I was recently introduced to a Google search wrapper called www.blackle.com. It's sole claim to fame...
Date: 08/03/2007
Custom Colors in the Windows Live Web Controls
The Windows Live Web Controls now support custom colors! The Windows Live Contacts web control and...
Date: 06/28/2007
T-Mobile Rolls Out WiFi Cell Support
At last! T-Mobile has rolled out their long-awaited HotSpot @Home service nationwide. This enables...
Date: 06/28/2007
ZeroGravity: Casual Gaming in Silverlight
Looks like the folks at terralever are going full-bore on Silverlight: They've implemented a...
Date: 06/27/2007
Secure Cross-Domain Communication: The Architecture Journal
The June issue (Journal 12) of The Architecture Journal focuses on web architecture. I was delighted...
Date: 06/18/2007
Windows Live Web Controls Mix07 Video
In the better late than never department, a video interview with Koji and me from the week prior to...
Date: 06/18/2007
New Domains for Windows Live Web Controls
Our little web controls are growing up so fast! We've migrated the Windows Live Contacts web control...
Date: 06/14/2007
Undisclosed Browser Technology
When people ask what I worked on at Google and I answer "undisclosed browser technology", I think...
Date: 05/31/2007
Microsoft Surface
You've got to see it to believe it: www.microsoft.com/surface/ Mmmm-mmm good. It may be time...
Date: 05/30/2007
Hosting Silverlight On A Server That Won't Host .JS Files
Torontonian "wavesmash" has been tinkering with getting a Silverlight app up and running on his...
Date: 05/27/2007
HTML Namespace Attributes and IE document.namespaces
A few posts ago I promised to elaborate on a little gotcha that bit us in the butt while prepping...
Date: 05/27/2007
Silverlight XPS Document Reader Proof-Of-Concept
Delay started out poking around in the XPS document format. Before he could stop himself, he had an...
Date: 05/22/2007
More: Avoiding Popup Windows in Your Web Apps
Scott Isaacs shares some additional "best practices" points on dealing with popup windows and popup...
Date: 05/22/2007
Maker Faire
Photos from this weekend's Maker Faire Part carnival, part science fair, part flea market, part...
Date: 05/21/2007
See Popfly at MakerFaire: May 19-20 San Mateo Fairgrounds
Hey, whadayaknow: John and the Popfly team will be at the O'Reilly Maker Faire this weekend in San...
Date: 05/18/2007
AOL Building on Silverlight
Mashable.com noted a small point that I had missed during the MIX07 madness: AOL's Social Mail...
Date: 05/18/2007
Name Change: Windows Live Quantum Mechanics
It's time to freshen things up a bit here. Out with the old musty ambiguous "Momentary Gouts of...
Date: 05/16/2007
My Content, My Tags
Tagging online content with categories or keywords is a great idea. I love GMail's use of labels...
Date: 05/16/2007
Avoiding Popup Blockers in Your Web Apps
Tim Heuer laments the growing number of otherwise reputable web sites that instruct their flocks to...
Date: 05/15/2007
Hello World with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming
I've been tinkering with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming and thought I'd share some of my...
Date: 05/08/2007
MIX07 Speaker Interviews on Channel 9
Video interviews of many of the MIX07 speakers are posted up on Channel 9. I think most of these...
Date: 05/06/2007
Installing Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK
If you set out to install the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK and installed all the additional recommended...
Date: 05/04/2007
MIX07: POST/GET/PUT/DELETE Your Way To Windows Live Data
Martin Heller posted an article on Infoworld, "Data Wants To Be Free," about the Windows Live Data...
Date: 05/03/2007
MIX07: Extending the Browser Programming Model with Silverlight
Silverlight implements isolated local storage on the client. Currently in the Alpha, the storage is...
Date: 05/02/2007
MIX07: Bat Signals and Five Minute Field Ops Centers
I apologize for cutting short my live/raw soundbyte blog post on the MIX07 keynote yesterday. I was...
Date: 05/01/2007
MIX07: Silverlight Supports Dynamic Languages (Iron Ruby, Iron Python, JavaScript)
Josh Holmes has a great summary of the Ray Ozzie / Scott Guthrie keynote yesterday. Towards the end...
Date: 05/01/2007
MIX07 and Silverlight in Technorati Top 10
Chris Woodill noticed that the MIX07 event and Silverlight announcements are creating ripples in the...
Date: 05/01/2007
MIX07: Windows Live Platform Beta
Live & raw notes from Brian Arbogast's keynote: (watch the video) "Today we are announcing the...
Date: 05/01/2007
MIX07: Social Mixing
I bumped into Anders Hejlsberg in the speaker's lounge this afternoon just before my 4:30...
Date: 05/01/2007
Blogging in my own session
Live blogging during our 30 Minute Social Application. I'm not in the audience, I'm presenting the...
Date: 04/30/2007
MIX07 Keynote: Silverlight With Cross-Platform .NET Runtime
Soundbyte streams from the MIX07 keynote, live and raw: Ray Ozzie on platforms, emergence of rich...
Date: 04/30/2007
Print Labels With the Windows Live Contacts Control
I was installing a new label printer at home a little while ago and noticed mention of a developer...
Date: 04/26/2007