My good friend and colleague over there in the Valley of the Sun, Tim Heuer, recently blogged to ‘respect the permalink’. This was in response to a blog post Tim came across that caught his attention entitled ‘.aspx considered harmful’. The point in contention is how file types, as part of a blog posting’s url, [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Windows Update offers up Silverlight install option
For Christmas, we bought the mother-in-law a new HP Photosmart C5280 printer to replace her old HP LaserJet 4L. She was due for a new cartridge in the LaserJet which was going to set her back $97! The decision was made to bring her printing powers to the 21st century with the HP C5280 All-in-one. [...]
Event: The 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference
The 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference is coming to San Jose, CA on Feb. 10 - 13. This is the premier event to attend if you’re building Microsoft Office and SharePoint applications. Bill Gates, along with other leaders of the Office and Live product groups, will be keynoting the event.
There will be [...]
People who are *WAY* smarter than me
I have to title this one under the heading of “People who are *WAY* smarter then me” just because of … well … Wow!
Chris Koenig pointed me to this video of Johnny Chung Lee using the Wii Remote and Sensor Bar to do some amazing things with virtual reality. Not only was I impressed by [...]
Starting a Fire for Silverlight and the MIX University
Back in September, we held our first SilverlightDevCamp in Chicago. There was a lot of interest from several designers/developers wanting to know about this new technology and how it’s going to play a part in building the next generation web experiences. The participants at the SilverlightDevCamp were mostly new to the whole Silverlight technology [...]


