Browse by Tags

Last night I co-presented an Intergen Twilight at our Wellington office, talking to clients about TechEd this year. My partner in crime for the talk was Daniel Horwood who was the man behind the Hands on Labs at TechEd this year. I think it went really well and we got a lot of good feedback talking to customers after the presentation. Download the slides of our talk here (30megs).

In the 6 weeks since it went live the Backstage With Office 2010 website has had 100,000 video views, 500 comments and zero bugs. Not bad! Another video has been added – The Making of Office Web Application. Check it out here . Update: The irony of advertising a Microsoft video in an Apple player just occurred to me. Heh. Update update: After looking it up I’m reasonably confident that that was a correct...

The past two weeks I have been working long hours with a small band from Intergen on the Backstage With Office 2010 website. I can happily say that today Backstage went live with the unveiling of Microsoft Office 2010 ! Backstage is full of videos from the Office 2010 team who go behind the scenes of Office development and talk about what they have been busy working on since 2007. The main Backstage...

The source code for TextGlow , a Silverlight application I wrote and was launched a year ago at MIX08 to much fanfare , has been released as open source under the Microsoft Public License. TextGlow was one of the first Silverlight 2.0 applications released and it showcased many of the new features and possibilities of Office Open XML and Silverlight. The source code for TextGlow has been released along...

Chris Auld , Intergen director, and Reed Shaffner , Microsoft Office technical product manager, did a presentation at MIX09 showing off ButtercupReader . The mini breakout session was called Building Accessible RIAs in Microsoft Silverlight and focuses on Silverlight’s accessibility features. I have worked quite closely with Chris over the last few years on various projects and Reed and I presented... More Posts Next page »