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• Twenty Five Years

  25 years ago Microsoft Word was released And 25 years ago, today, I got married. Today I received this card from my wife... with this inside This is the secret to a great marriage and a great company....( read more ) Posted May 29 2008, 09:22 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Silverlight Geek, Random Ramblings

• What is the point of a survey if....

  The key point of my survey was to measure your satisfaction and then to make changes to increase satisfaction. I'm pleased that overall satisfaction seems high, but there is always room for improvement. I will shut down the survey on Sunday and start... Posted May 29 2008, 07:28 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos

• Podcast Part 2 Posted

  On April 9, I posted a link to my first interview on Sparkling Client . Today I'm happy to post a link to the second and final part of the interview . Also, be sure to catch their terrific interview with Dave Campbell ( Silverlight Cream )....( read... Posted Apr 17 2008, 03:11 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion

• Sparkling Client Podcasts On Silverlight

  I'm pleased and proud to say that my first Sparkling Client interview is now available for download; and this gives me the opportunity to recommend subscribing to this excellent new podcast. Sparkling Client focuses exclusively on Silverlight and... Posted Apr 09 2008, 12:29 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion

• New Look - Same Blog

  Don't panic! It's the same blog; I just changed the look to make it easier to use and easier to read. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for lots of videos and tutorials over the next fortnight. -j...( read more ) Posted Apr 05 2008, 11:25 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, Random Ramblings

• Tim Heuer Joins the Team

  From time to time folks ask me what I do, and one of the wonderful things about working for ScottGu and more immediately Simon Muzio is that to a large degree my job is self-defined. So, while my task is to "build a developer community" on Silverlight... Posted Apr 02 2008, 09:02 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Geek, Random Ramblings

• What I'm Thinking About April

  I've been getting a lot of mail on the lines of "When will we have Beta 2?" or "what is the release date for Silverlight" and since I can't answer those questions, and since I know that folks need to plan, I thought I'd... Posted Mar 24 2008, 10:18 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Feedback, Random Ramblings, Tutorials, How Do I Videos

• Innovation, Renovation and Change

  So, after some minutes of trying this and that, it is time to take stock and see what's working and what isn't.  What's changing... Tip of the Day: RIP The Tip of the Day was a great idea, but I have yet to figure out what is the... Posted Mar 21 2008, 01:06 PM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight.net, Silverlight Geek, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, Random Ramblings

• The Silverlight 2 Tutorials Are Launched

  As part of the impending release of Silverlight 2, I promised in a recent blog post to provide what I hope you will find to be  an extremely useful set of integrated tutorials, How Do I Videos, Webcasts, Tips of the Day and Blog Posts.  I have... Posted Mar 03 2008, 06:18 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources

• The difference between a geek and a snob

  In my recent post I tried to distinguish... Posted Feb 25 2008, 01:12 PM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings

• My Commitment To Support Silverlight 2 Developers

  Silverlight 2 is big. Very big. It's great, but it is very big, with many cool features. So we're preparing. And all that preparation means that there will be a lot of information, and many paths through that information. My goal is to ensure... Posted Feb 25 2008, 08:50 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek

• The Difference Between An Evangelist and A Geek

  Today's NY Times declares (ever so quietly) the beginning of the Netware wars (did I just coin that term?). They get a lot wrong in the article, but if you know more than they appear to, you can conclude that Silverlight and Air/Flex will be competing... Posted Feb 25 2008, 08:47 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings

• Tip of the Day - Suspends Until Mid March - Then Focus On Silverlight 2

  Rather than trying to provide a Tip of the Day as we head towards one of the larger and more important  shows of the year (you are going to Mix , right?) Therefore, I'm going to suspend the Tip of the Day from now until mid-March. After Mix,... Posted Feb 19 2008, 11:41 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Tip of the Day, Shameless Self-promotion

• One more gadget (the ego never quits)

  I woke up at 5 this morning, so I decided to take apart the Silverlight Tip of the Day gadget that Kelly White had so kindly created and, as an exercise in egomania, modify it to display all my blog entries, rather than just those that are tagged as Tip... Posted Feb 10 2008, 08:05 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight.net, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity

• Did You Know That... The best way to get help is...

  I receive a lot of email asking questions about Silverlight; which is great, but the most effective way to get these questions answered is usually to post them to the Silverlight Forum , where a lot more people can take a look and respond. In any case... Posted Jan 17 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Geek, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources