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Having just completed my seventh year as a technology evangelist in New Zealand it is easy to lose sight of the path that I have travelled. My submission into the Microsoft Next project was an opportu...
Having been on the road for a week participating in Windows 8 camps up and down the country it is often easy to get so caught up in the doing that you don’t take the time to reflect on the impac...
The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 was launched on 1st March 2012 and I hope you have all had a chance to download it. We are very excited to hold our very first Windows Camps next week from the 20 to ...
Webstock has once again exceeded my expectations in regards to awesomeness and depth of thought. This year it really did feel like I was as a TED conference in long form rather than a technology confe...
Late last year SHIFT did a great job helping APN to update their mobile website http://m.nzherald.co.nz
The website works great on Windows Phone but just not enough people know it exists or access it ...
It has been almost 6 years since the first Webstock in Wellington, and I still remember fondly the inaugural conference.
What was memorable for me was the week that I spent with Tony Chor (then Group...
The LazywormApps team down in Christchurch are a Microsoft BizSpark Start-Up and are one of the most successful Windows Phone 7 development companies in New Zealand. In the first year their LazyTub...
Since the launch of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer there have been almost 2 million downloads of the 5 most popular applications. This made me curious to find out a bit more about what applicat...
Previously Mike wrote a great editorial about all things //BUILD I'd like to re-iterate that developers who are looking to build apps for Windows 8 can check out a wealth of content on the BUILD websi...
I am constantly being asked by web developers how they can get started with HTML5 Video.
My first question is normally: Why do you want to use it? What problem are you trying to solve?
More often than...
Last week I presented at WDCNZ in Wellington with Chris Double (Auckland based Mozilla Developer who works on HTML 5 video & audio support in Firefox). Back in March I delivered a presentati...
Last week Adobe broke the Internet. What they did was push an upgrade to their Flash plugin to version 10.3 that made it impossible to view and consume Flash content for Windows 7 + IE9 + Intel HD Gra...
Following on from The Great Kiwi Windows Azure Competition I got a taste for the 10 hour app. I started looking across other areas where I have been procrastinating. This lead me to Windows Phone 7, d...
The Problem: Lots of kiwi developers are signing up to try Windows Azure but are not actually deploying anything.
To understand why this is we have talked with a bunch of local developers to get a fee...
I have just finished giving my presentation at MIX11 on HTML5 Video and Audio. I enjoyed the session and promised to share the video, demos and code here on my blog. 5 Things You Need to Know to Star...
I want to call out what an awesome job Mike did with NZ’s first Startup Weekend #AKLSW. He was there for the entire 54 hours over the weekend and helped deliver a killer event. The event was spo...
I previously posted the links to all the demos that I gave during my unplugged talk around New Zealand last week.
As promised I will now post the videos and walk trough for the rest of the content.
Be...
I delivered my first unplugged session this morning in Wellington on Session 1: The Unnamed Package of Web Love ASP.NET MVC3, Razor, Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate and emerging HTM...
I am hitting the road next week with Mike to present two developer sessions around the country. As I wrote in last weeks MSDN Flash In the first session, I will present on ASP.NET MVC3, Razor, In...
Last week when I was down in Wellington for the ONYAs (Congratulations Keith!) I visited Te Papa to see The Mixing Room exhibition telling the stories of young refugees in New Zealand running from the...
I have written the first MSDN Flash editorial of the year. Subscribe to the newsletter if you havent already. 24 January 2011 ...
Since the launch of Windows Phone 7 and while I was down at the iDev conference in Christchurch I am coming across more and more people that are looking for ways to create scalable backend services an...
Today is my last day acting in the team lead role and I want to share some of the insights and experiences that I have had over the last 100+ days. Microsoft has phenomenal development programmes and&...
It is well known that I love my cricket and over the last few years Ive been able to combine my passion for cricket with the awesome team at NV Interactive in Christchurch and New Zealand cricket. NV...
As we wrap up the year Im happy at how NZ developers have taken to the new Windows Phone 7 platform. Mat wrote about the results of the Windows Phone 7 Challenge that we ran and it is great to see som...
Over the last few weeks, weve been tuning the JavaScript engine for more of the patterns weve found in real world sites. Based on the progress since the last platform preview, were releasing an upd...
In July 2008 I spent a day at the Open Source Lab at Microsoft in the USA. This got me thinking of who in New Zealand would be a good candidate to engage with the Microsoft Open Source Labs to be adde...
The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) kicks off tomorrow morning and we would like to invite you to participate in this year conference LIVE in New Zealand. This years PDC online even...
Remember the post from Rowan Simpson from May 2007?
Why doesn’t Trade Me have an API?
At the end of this post Rowan asks:
If we build it will they come? Are there enough developers in New Zeala...
TVNZ streams a number of their shows live via their website: NZI Business live stream Breakfast live stream ONE News Midday live stream ONE News 4:30pm live stream ONE News 6pm liv...
At Tech.Ed Hilary and I delivered a breakout session titled From Research to Reality. A Demofest of Innovation. The session video is now available online. At the time I promised I would post lin...
Are you interested to learn how to build applications for the new Windows Phone 7 platform? This introductory workshop is designed for those who are interested to jump on the market and produce Window...
The PivotViewer Silverlight control shipped this morning, which means you can now embed a Pivot collection (with great UI) directly in a web page. Check out the Netflix demo at http://netflixpivot...
This week Ben Gracewood, Chris Klug, Keith Patton and myself delivered three Windows Phone 7 developer training events in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. The agenda was packed with more than 5 ...
Recently I have been having a lot of fun building a competition Slice of Kevin intended in part to teach people about Web Slices in New Zealand.
The competition has been very successful and has create...
Are you committed to building applications for the new Windows Phone 7 platform? This session is for committed developers that want to get a jump on the market and produce some of the early showcase...
The more I see of IIS Media Services 4 the more I observe the fundamental shift away from specialised and expense media servers to core services that run on top of any windows web server.
In this case...
Editor's Note: This Way-Cool 'Internet' Doohickey It wasn't all that long ago that surfing meant grabbing a board and hanging 10. Keith Ward Silverlight Security: Securing Your Silverlight Ap...
Sorry about the missing links in the latest MSDN Flash editorial that I wrote! I posted it as it should have been linked up below: With the great launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure la...
After spending a couple of hours with Rowan Simpson yesterday afternoon I found myself continually coming back to some of the things that Bill Buxton talked about in his hour Q&A at MIX10 in Las V...
Tim Heuer has done a great post on the Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement. BEFORE you run off to Tims blog please READ THIS If you need to continue doing Windows Phone 7 d...
The NAB Show is an annual trade show produced by the National Association of Broadcasters. It is taking place in Las Vegas this week and you can check out Microsoft at the NAB Show 2010. It is intere...
18 years ago Virtual Reality was all the rage remember The Lawnmower Man? 16 years ago Apple came out with QuickTime VR which changed the way people experienced panoramic photos on the web.
QuickTim...
If youre involved in any capacity with software development, or want to understand more about cloud computing, this is a half-day event not to be missed. Come along to t...
If youre involved in any capacity with software development, or want to understand more about cloud computing, this is a half-day event not to be missed. Come along to t...
This week the MSDN Flash is a wrap up of everything MIX.
We all know the old adage "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"; yet with live broadcasts, blogs and tweets that is no longer the case. I...
The tools available at MIX 10 and for public download are a Community Technology Preview, while not feature complete, the tools release at MIX 10 ships with a robust set of functionality. The white p...
Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform. The broad vision of the orchard project is to grow the...
Im on the plane flying back to New Zealand and Im astonished how quickly things have changed since I was last in the US. This trip I visited LA, Las Vegas and San Francisco and I was overwhelmed by th...
This afternoon I found myself kicking around in Vegas after MIX waiting for a flight to San Francisco. I was looking through the photos from MIX10 and thought it appropriate to have a little fun.
Sinc...
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