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Bit of a result: Microsoft platform is best to develop web apps on

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:35 PM by James Senior
Well I never.  Having been at the Future of Web Apps conference last year and hearing a "leading" web 2.0 company say they had no idea what Microsoft had in the form of authentication and identity APIs having reeled of options from Google, Read More...
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Web Harmony - where designers and developers kiss and make up

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:24 AM by James Senior
I had the pleasure to visit the set of a filming session for a Microsoft advert last month - even got a bit of behind the scene filming done on the making of the advert!  Anyway this week the advert got published and I think the end result is pretty Read More...
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DreamSpark - Free software for students

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:42 AM by James Senior
Bill Gates has just announced free developer, designer and server products for Students.  DreamSpark allows students to download Visual Studio, Expression, XNA Game Studio and Windows Server for free.  Here's the Channel 8 interview with Bill. Read More...
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IMM Core Ontology 1.0

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 9:53 AM by James Senior
I've talked about IMM (Interactive Media Manager) before - it's software based on SharePoint that helps you manage your digital assets (think companies like the BBC or Sky for example).  If you are developing software that works with IMM you might Read More...
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Building an app that uses Office documents? Win an Xbox!

Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 3:09 PM by James Senior
If you're a partner or company developing an application that does stuff with Office documents - saving, loading, storing - whatever, then you might want to consider building it with OpenXML built in.  Why would you do this?  Two reasons really.  Read More...
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Mix UK Videos Up

Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 3:44 PM by James Senior
Woah been a busy past couple of weeks.  Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs!  Although I didn't move far it was fairly stressful and I'm now left with a weekend of unpacking.  Read More...
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Getting started with Live Services and Virtual Earth

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 8:46 AM by James Senior
I just finished putting together some info for a partner who was interested in learning how and why to develop their applications incorporating Live Services and Virtual Earth etc. I thought you might be interested, so here it is: Virtual Earth Interactive Read More...
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Windows Live Quick Apps - Mashup apps with source code

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:19 PM by James Senior
Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps "Contoso Bicycle Club" and "Contoso University" were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft Read More...
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"We all do agree the world is not flat, right?"

Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:06 AM by James Senior
At the recent BI conference that my colleague Ben has been shouting about recently , one of the Keynotes featured SQL Server 2008 and Virtual Earth. Why these two products? Well, because SQL Server 2008 will be featuring new types of data - in particular Read More...
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News from TechEd; free evaluation of Vista

Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:35 AM by James Senior
Want to try Vista? Now you can with these free trials. Here's the news from Dave Kim . Recently we released two images in virtual formats of Windows Vista which will give you a 30 days hands-on experience to play with both a Windows Vista 30-Day Enterprise Read More...
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Microsoft Surface powered by WPF

Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:39 PM by James Senior
From the initial interviews I knew that Microsoft Surface was a Vista PC under the hood and I had my suspicions that the graphics were powered by WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation - the graphics subsystem that is present in .NET 3.0 and Vista). Reading Read More...
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Developer Developer Developer Day 5.0

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:43 PM by James Senior
Last time, this event rocked and I would definitely recommend attending if you want to see and hear some impressive speakers talk about cool technology. The agenda is already published here and you can register for the event here . From the looks of it Read More...
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Family.Show app shows of WPF, source code is available

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:05 PM by James Senior
Saving the best to last :-) The Vertigo crew were commissioned by Microsoft to create an app in WPF that showed off some of the technology. What they came up with was a an app that helps build and visualise family trees. Apparently genealogy is the fastest Read More...
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New York Times Reader in Silverlight on a Mac

Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:57 AM by James Senior
Shock horror, but here's some innovation from Microsoft ( back story from comments in this post ). The New York Times Reader which was originally a Vista launch app based on WPF has been ported to Silverlight on the Mac. Now because WPF and Silverlight Read More...
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Upcoming Microsoft Events for developers

Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 3:42 PM by James Senior
Some interesting events coming up soon including how to develop applications using Silverlight and Windows Live: Web Design and Development with Silverlight (Formerly Code-Named “WPF/E) and Windows Live: Reading, 16 May 2007 MSDN: Visual Studio “Orcas” Read More...
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