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Blue Monster at the Future of Web Apps

Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:34 PM by James Senior
Representing Microsoft at this year's FOWA (Future of Web Apps) conference in London, I'll be there finding out where the top people in the industry think the web is going. One of the things I'll be particularly interested in talking to people about is 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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Calling all web design and web developer students - event to learn about Microsoft's web technologies

Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:15 PM by James Senior
I learnt about this particular event through Mark Johnston's blog and it's a great opportunity for students to learn about Microsoft's web technologies. It's a full day of goodness with two tracks, one for design students and the other for developers. Read More...
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How to save $1,000,000 on your IT deployment and support with application virtualisation

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:58 PM by James Senior
Well, it depends a lot on your individual circumstances as a organisation but the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle have managed to do save $1,000,000. Their IT is quite big with 500 applications across 4,500 desktops and 150 thin desktops and they have Read More...
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Silverlight - release your style

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 4:52 PM by James Senior
Light up the Web Silverlight (codename WPF/E) is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash (estimated to be running rich web based experiences on 95% of the world’s PCs and Macs). The goal is to provide the most natural and seamless method with which to design Read More...
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Expression Web Virtual Labs!

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:00 PM by James Senior
I have to say that Virtual Labs are a fantastic way to "try before you buy" and also a wonderful way for people to learn a tool. We've just released Virtual Labs for Expression Web so have a look and find out why it's such a cool tool for building standards-compliant Read More...
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Expression on MSDN

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:11 PM by James Senior
To all those who asked and provided feedback, thank you. Your voice has swayed the vote and Expression Web is now available on MSDN Premium subscription. It's a start - Expression Design and Media aren't on there because they aren't related to developer Read More...
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Office Live Web Services - make it want you want

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:25 AM by James Senior
Extending Office Live has recently been made easier through the introduction of this web service which provides specific API access to core parts of the platform. There are also many Sharepoint Services APIs to play with via web services but some of these Read More...
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UK Web Agency Blog - it looks like Expression

Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 1:08 PM by James Senior
Andrew Shorten has just created the "Microsoft blog for and about UK Web Agencies". His first post is about getting started with designing rich User Experiences on the Microsoft platform and technologies like WPF, WPF/E, Expression et. al. I've been playing Read More...
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Target Virtual Earth Mashup

Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 9:04 AM by James Senior
Target in the US have integrated Virtual Earth into their store locator section of the website. It looks beautiful and is extremely easy to use. They've customised the push pins to be actual targets that represent stores in the area and also have changed Read More...
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Small Software Developer? Daunted by MS technology adoption?

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:27 PM by James Senior
I admit it, keeping track of all the latest technologies coming out of Microsoft is a challenge in itself - I should know! :-) For developers it's an even more daunting challenge because their knowledge is out of date in short amount of time. For our Read More...
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IIS7: a whole load of hosting goodness

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:37 AM by James Senior
The IIS website over at www.iis.net has had a revamp in the wake of the Vista launch which of course comes with IIS7; the latest and greatest version of Internet Information Server. One of the things that I like about IIS7, apart from the new management Read More...
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WPF/E CTP (Feb 2007)

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 10:12 AM by James Senior
This little blighter slipped out the door on the 2nd and I didn't even realise! Lucky Mike Taulty has got his ear to the ground and spotted the release and also a rather nice Vista environment built with WPF/E. Kind of makes the www.seewindowsvista.com Read More...
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