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• My Favorite Utilities…

  About twice a  year I try to publish a list of the utilities that I use all the time… not the ones I like in theory, but the ones that I use – that make programming or computing easier, faster, better.  Here's my list for the end of 2008. Programming... Posted Nov 02 2008, 12:45 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community, Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser

• So Much Technology – So Little Time

  We have, I think, officially passed the point where anyone can keep up with the new technology available for developers, just from Microsoft (let alone all the new options from all the other companies), and PDC is les than a week away. A  totally... Posted Oct 23 2008, 11:21 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Opinion, Building Apps, Observations

• Silverlight 2 – The release candidate and next steps

  On Thursday night we published the first public release candidate for Silverlight 2, described in some detail by Scott Guthrie .  This is a developer-only release and you can learn all about what it is and how to get it in a terrific blog post by... Posted Sep 27 2008, 09:51 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community, Planning, release candidate

• What topics are important to you? Survey Results

  The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. - Blaise Pascal Again, thank you for taking the time to respond to the survey , it was extremely helpful to me in planning the videos, tutorials and blog posts... Posted Sep 19 2008, 02:41 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community, Planning, Observations, Survey

• Liberty – Shill?

  Okay, I never thought this was an issue I was likely to face, but the folks in Marketing wanted to run this ad, and so I was faced with that interesting question of what we used to call “Selling Out.” (yeah, yeah, i work for Microsoft, so my radical friends... Posted Sep 12 2008, 05:58 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Blend For Programmers, Opinion, Community

• Sparkling Client – Monthly Podcast Guest

  I’m very proud and excited to announce that I’ve been invited to be a monthly guest on the Sparkling Client Silverlight Podcast. Details to follow very soon, but our initial shows include a discussion of Templates on September 23rd and of Databinding... Posted Aug 27 2008, 07:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• Visual Thesaurus – Mindware

  When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and... Posted Aug 16 2008, 08:34 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• Candidate for favorite new utility

  I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip... Posted Aug 14 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community