Windows Media Center Sandbox - Screencast: Creating A Simple Media Center Application
Just wanted to point you all to two great screencasts on how you can develop applications on Windows Media Center. Personally I love Windows Media Center, it is the center of my entire home entertainment experience, it is networked and streamed all around Read More...
Posted 09 August 08 01:58 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Batman: The Dark Knight
Ok, so this post is in no way tech related, Microsoft related, anything normal related, it was just something I have been thinking about. So I finally had the opportunity to go and see the Dark Knight last night, and it really is the amazing movie that Read More...
Posted 30 July 08 01:07 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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PDC2008 | Social | Contests | ShowOff
When it doesn’t rain it pours as they say… Two blogs within 5 ten minutes. Now I have not had the chance to go to PDC for a while, but if you are a developer then this is an awesome conference to go to. This year the team are hosting a competition called Read More...
Posted 27 July 08 08:44 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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history.forward() - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft
I am excited about the work we are doing in contributing back to the Open Source community here at Microsoft. Our work on getting PHP to not only run, but run exceptionally well on Windows Server 2008 with FastCGI is a great step ahead to support web Read More...
Posted 27 July 08 08:38 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Moonlight (Silverlight on Linux) – Interview with Miguel de Icaza
Code to Live: Dancing in the Moonlight with Miguel de Icaza The interview is a bit old, but has just been published. Miguel de Icaza talks about Moonlight and how it came about. Thanks to Josh Holmes for posting it. Read More...
Posted 02 July 08 01:03 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V now available for download!!
Hi All,   Exciting stuff on the wires, the update to Windows Server 2008 with the RTM code for Hyper-V is now available. This is what Dennis and I were talking about in our last video . I hope to find some time to do another video showing how to Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 11:13 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Why Virtualize?
Episode 2 of our ANWYCDFYSBWYSCDFY, on Hyper-V. This video is more of a discussion about what Dennis is doing in the Microsoft Singapore Innovation Center to take advantage of Hyper-V being released as a part of Windows Server 2008. No demo content here, Read More...
Posted 24 June 08 03:20 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Presenting the security of Windows Server 2008
On Thursday night I had the privilege of presenting to the OWASP.org user group. Those who are unaware of this group, they are a passionate group of security experts in Singapore.   We had a 30-strong attendance from the group packed in to our Microsoft Read More...
Posted 20 June 08 02:47 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Want to go to Macau on Microsoft's expense?
A colleague made me aware of this competition that they have launched around "Software + Services". All you need to do is to record yourself and friends delivering the "Software + Services" story based on the article located here as Read More...
Posted 20 June 08 02:00 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Server Core "Theoretically" reduces the number of Security Bulletins
Just after publishing our video on Server Core, I visited Jeff Jones Security Blog , and found this post http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2008/06/12/download-server-core-potential-security-benefit.aspx on how having a server OS being installed Read More...
Posted 17 June 08 03:34 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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ANWYCDFYSBWYSCDFY - Episode 1
Welcome to the first edition of ANWYCDFYSBWYSCDFY (Ask not what you can do for your server but what your server can do for you). Yes Ill admit its a terrible title, but the intent behind these videos is to quickly show you what can be achieved with Windows Read More...
Posted 17 June 08 03:06 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Making Security Better for the IT Pro
I literally just stepped out of keynoting the latest Technet Security Event for Microsoft Singapore. The question I posed to the attendees at the event, "What things can Microsoft be doing better for IT Professionals in Singapore with regards to Read More...
Posted 05 June 08 03:29 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Windows Server Hyper-V RC1
Got to say I am very excited about the eminent release of Hyper-V to Windows Server 2008. I have been running Windows Server 2008 on the machine for a while and it continues to impress. Hyper-V is one of those technologies is really going to help customers Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 09:29 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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SearchMe Visual Search
http://beta.searchme.com Here is a nice spin on Search Engine technology, focusing on the representing the results rendered in a scrolling representation rather than just a textual summary. Tried searching on one of my favourite anime series DragonBall Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 09:44 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Ruby on Rails, Silverlight and IronRuby
Was just chatting to my colleague John Lam, the drive for IronRuby in Microsoft about his recent participation in RailsConf 2008 . At the event there were two cool things that they showed. 1. Silverlight plugin for Ruby on Rails, bringing the richness Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 12:15 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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