June 2009 Entries
In this episode we start by talking about Cutting the cable, DTV conversion, Internet Explorer 8 and Drinking the Kool-Aid. Finally we jump into our interview with Zain Naboulsi talking about Online Virtual Worlds (example: Second Life, Facebook, etc) and their impact on the Microsoft technology community To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=9 Related Resources: Zain Naboulsi’s Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/ Adam Kinney’s Blog Post: Microsoft Teams and Products on...
In this episode we start by talking to Andrew Brust on Microsoft’s move to kill the Oracle Data Provider and how the world is not coming to an end. Then, Peter and I talk again about his trip to JavaOne including HTML 5 vs. RIA applications (like Silverlight). Finally, we jump into Peter's JavaOne interview with Ted Neward on Project Stonehenge and interoperability between Java and .NET. To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=8 Related Resources: Apache Stonehenge Project: http://incubator.apache.org/stonehenge/ ...
This is actually a very impressive phone, check out the video! I am very happy to see phone hardware starting to match the iPhone for other platforms. I wonder how good the screen i though.
Thank you to everyone who attended my presentation yesterday (at the NYC Silverlight group) on Silverlight 2 + PRISM. Below is a link to my slides for your review: Also, here is a direct link to all the documentation and installation + Quickstarts that I used in my demo: Composite Client Application Guidance (Feb 2009) Different presentation in the future In hindsight I really wish that I would have structured my presentation totally differently, this was a hard and large topic to present. In the future I hope to do better, but at the...
In this episode we talk with Peter about his visit to JavaOne in San Francisco. Then we discuss the new Bing 411 phone service, changes to the Bing API, the new Windows 7 Training Kit and MVC & Visual Studio 2010. Finally we jump into our interview with Laurence Moroney on Silverlight 3 beta, Smooth Streaming and more! To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=7 Related Resources: Bing 411 (Phone Search!) Bing API (with unlimited access for customer-facing applications!) Blog Post about MVC and VS...
In this episode we talk about Peter’s recent bar camp presentation on “cutting the cable bill” and other hot news topics like Bing.com. Then we jump into our interview with Tony Goodhew of Microsoft Corporation on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Tony describes major features coming for various groups of developers and crosscutting functionality like Multi-monitor support! To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=6 Related Resources: In the News! Bing.com, Microsoft’s new Search Engine Windows 7 release date announced, General...