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Hey folks, many of you are familiar with the commotion that occurred around Oxites initial release. For various reasons, Oxite received a lot of attention from developers, bloggers and press mostly be...
Erik pushed out a new release to Oxite today, the first since January 5th. This release is an important one, because it reflects a great deal of changes made in response to internal and external feedb...
Aug 29 10:20 AM Duncan M. source code formatting checked in Duncan M. http://localhost/posts/Sampy/PAX-Day-3-In-… Aug 29 10:25 AM Duncan M. Duncan M. Duncan M. I started...
We recently had Donovan West (LiveGadgets.net) build us a set of sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. These gadgets use the RSS feeds from each site and let you see all of our new content as it gets pos...
Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2....
We recently updated a few of our web sites with code that would provide a 'nicer' experience for browsers that were not compatible with the ASP.NET ATLAS (AJAX) scripts we were using. For some reason ...
I don't know if this is good or bad, but I thought it was neat that I could right-click the main project (excluding all our client script and HTML) that runs behind on10.net, pick code metrics and see...
I've been fiddling around with mobile interfaces for both my personal site and for the various sites I work on (http://on10.net, http://channel9.msdn.com, amongst others) and I noticed the use of <...
I'm part of a dev team that builds blog/forum software and I've been thinking about mobile interfaces lately... so I'm trying to find a good example of site like ours that provides a good (enjoyable, ...
So I have a file on disk, web.config in this case, and I right click and pick 'open with | Visual Studio 2008' ... and I get this: Windows cannot find 'C:\projects\9\web.config'. Make sure you ...
The auto inclusion of all our CSS files has finally become too annoying. We'll still use the app_theme directory, as it is a handy way to store our stuff... but I'm really hoping to not set the theme,...
My team builds a fair number of community sites including Channel 8 (for Students), TechNet Edge (for IT Pros), Channel 10 (for enthusiasts, power users and gamers), Mix Online (for web developers and...
I'm very excited about it... really! I just got distracted on http://sitemaps.org and ended up building a site map for this site... real brute force, just grabbed all the blog entries and tags and out...
and the Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe feels the need to comment about it. Let me summarize. Ice Cube is involved in an Internet video project and has chosen to use Silverlight, and you...
Awesome gadget from Adam Kinney, great information and a nice slick UI done in Silverlight. Xbox Friends Watch - Get the Gadget!...
For anyone who is interested in using the code behind this site for their own blog, or who just finds reading code to be a fun pastime, you can go to http://www.codeplex.com/oxite to check it out. Of ...
In Halo 3 multi-player you can customize your SPARTAN or Elite's armor, with different variations unlocked by various achievements/activities in game (including one that can only be unlocked by being ...
For the price of $280, you can now get a new edition of the Xbox 360 console. This one is similar to the original core system, but with HDMI output, a 256mb memory card (so you can play and save your...
In an interview with Adam Kinney on Channel 9 today, Sampy goes over how the player works and why using the JavaScript and templates from Expression Media Encoder saved us a bunch of hassle See this ...
We used a modified version of one of the templates that ships with Expression Media Encoder as our player... and channel 8 has become the first of our sites (which include Channel 9, Channel 10,...
Continuing on in the same pattern as my last post, adding Soapbox support to C9's forums, Adam Kinney bugged me a bit and I went ahead and added support for Silverlight Streaming as well. It will b...
In the new code that we are building for Channel 9, we have a few HTML popups here and there... floating divs for user info being one example. At the same time as we've been adding that feature, we al...
Saw this today (it is over a year old though) on Roger Hartford's blog; XSLT alternating rows In an XSLT template tag you can simulate the same functionality as in GridView/DataGrid "Alternati...
We (the dev team behind Channel 9, Channel 10, Mix Online, and others...)been doing scrum-ish development for a few sprints now, but we recently switched to using eScrum. This is a set of templates an...
My twitter app uses a web service hosted on my site to get all the necessary Xbox Live info.... way more than the twitter app actually uses. This is a SOAP API, located here: http://duncanmackenzie.ne...
I had seen both styles of banners, but until reading Laurence's post on the subject, I didn't know why there was two... or how to change which one showed up....
I recently noticed a bug in the trackback code on Channel 10, some sites were failing to send us trackbacks, even though we were receiving trackbacks from other sources and those sites were happi...
It's been a few days since the big storm blew through, but I'm still without power (I'm at Microsoft now, so I can get connected and charge a few things)... which sucks when you have kids (and visitor...
I love Winnipeg, but it doesn't normally get all that many developer focused talks... so if you live there and you are interested in .NET based web development, you should really get down to...
Brian and I just posted a demo of the wireless sharing features in the Zune, so if you are into that sort of thing you should check it out....
In a recent post on Microsoft 10, Alfred talks about the idea and controversy around having students equipped with laptops. Check out his post for the full details, but to summarize... it can work wel...
I love working at Microsoft and finding out all my information about our products from Engadget :) Oh well, there is always PressPass, check out the virtual press kit for Zune...
These aren't from an official source, as far as I know, but they look pretty legit to me :) From MaxConsole...
With the release of Scramble today, I noticed something odd on the game detail page on Xbox.com. Along the left hand side is a listing of the specs of the game (# of players, does it work with Li...
A friend of mine from my MSDN days is over in MSN (oops, Windows Live I guess) land now and is working on a new product that is just going into beta... if you are interested, and perhaps would even li...
As someone who works on a video based Microsoft site, you'd think I would have already found this... but I had no idea it was out... description from the site itself: What it is A user uploaded vide...
For quite some time I've thought Pageviews were a mostly useless number to be tracking for any web site. This was very clear at MSDN, where such stats are tracked very carefully... spreadsheets are cr...
I think we have a real design flaw here... one of those 'neat ideas on your dev box' that maybe shouldn't have really been implemented. Check out this Technorati search for Temporary Post Used For Sty...
Now that the site appears to be stable, I wanted to mention that my ultra-cool green banner was done for me by Chris from 360Style.net. If you haven't seen his site yet, check it out... my desktop wal...
Not that it affects you, the reader, all that much... but I'm getting around 9000 spam comments a day now. It is crazy. I'd add code to avoid them, but I'm just finishing up a move to some new blog so...
I was browsing on www.xamlog.com and I found this tutorial on "Reflection using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask", which shows you how to produce this effect: with very little code/markup. Hmm...
PAX was a blast, I went back for day 2 and spent almost all the day at the exhibition hall... tons of cool demos and people! I was able to stop at the Xbox booth and chat with Trixie (as Brian mention...
If you are a dev, then this code formatting plug-in is probably the coolest thing out there... I'm still ranking Tim's Flickr plug-in as #1 at the moment, at least my slightly customized version that ...
on10.net has a good interview up about the new blogging tool from the Windows Live team. What's cool about this app? For a developer, there is tons to be excited about, including a very easy to use SD...
I even got to be the 'preview' image! Check this out to hear a bit more about our design and implementation of on10.net, and for some more info on our plans around on10.net going forward and for movin...
Ok, so this is interesting to me, maybe not to everyone. Go to this page on on10.net, and notice the lack of CSS... We are using ASP.NET themes and the CSS for the theme gets inserted as a relat...
Kent points us to a free ASP.NET control that pretties up any source code you output to your site... most systems I've used convert the code into html, but this one lets you leave it in its proper for...
I’m at my nephew’s place for a bit and he just ‘bricked’ his PSP. He put in a game and it started to do a firmware update... he didn’t understand what it was doing and w...
I'm in Winnipeg for a couple of weeks, and while I'm there I thought I'd track down a few interesting folks to film for on10.net. First up on my list, Ed from www.geektragedy.com. I can't figure out a...
Sometimes I don't like being just the guy behind the scenes :)It isn't anyone's fault, everyone on our team is aware of the work I do, but sometimes I wish it was more visible to the public. I guess i...
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