Developement

Up to date books from O’Reilly

May 21, 2008

I picked up the Essential Silverlight 2.0 book while I was at the Web 2.0 Expo.  I’ve been meaning to share.  It’s the first time I’ve purchased an “Up To Date” book from O’Reilly.  I’m waiting form my first update to come in the mail. To update your book you have the  option to print [...]

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ASP.NET MVC Framework

May 19, 2008

There’s a new version of the ASP.NET MVC presentation online.  I much prefer this side by side method of displaying presentation based talks.  The Silverlight interface is little bit visually chunky, but it works well.  What is a Model View Controller (MVC) Framework? MVC is a framework methodology that divides an application’s implementation into three [...]

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OLPC, future of computing, and stuff…

May 11, 2008

I’m sitting here in a Starbucks trying out the OLPC as a blogging platform. It’s a great little machine for so many reasons, but I’m actually finding myself a little limited trying to do real stuff that I do everyday on this system. Sure it wasn’t designed for this at all so I will be [...]

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Expression 2 is out

May 2, 2008

Microsoft released the Expression 2.0  suite of products today.  I’ve been using expression since last year and religiously updating whenever a new beta or preview version of any of the applications as they were released.  At first I wasn’t a big fan of the tools, but over time I’ve really come to enjoy them and [...]

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Microsoft Live Mesh Part 3

April 27, 2008

I had a chance to see Ori Amiga give a presentation around the Live Mesh platform at the Web 2.0 Expo.  At first I was little hesitant about this technology.  After all the public preview is super early and lacking in a whole lot of usefulness and features.  Getting a chance to really see where [...]

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Microsoft Live Mesh Web 2.0 Keynote presentation

April 27, 2008

Here’s the Live Mesh Keynote presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo. Technorati Tags: Live Mesh,Microsoft,Web 2.0,Keynote,Video

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Yahoo! Search Monkey Dev Beta

April 24, 2008

You can sign up now for the SearchMonkey Developer Preview now. As Ari Balogh, Yahoo!’s new CTO, will discuss in his Web 2.0 Expo keynote this morning, we’re rolling out a limited preview of the SearchMonkey Developer Tool starting today. With this online tool, developers can build data services that can be used to present [...]

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