As part of the recent MSDN Unplugged event I presented around New Zealand demonstrating some of the new features of IE9 and emerging HTML5 capabilities. This video shows how fast IE9 is using…

During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the premise of live sport, windows phone 7, surface and live smooth streaming. Thanks to NV…

Game is on! The New Zealand Windows Phone 7 application competition Yes! All ready to go. You can read more about our competition here: www.microsoft.co.nz/wp7challenge We have two competition…

I have built a basic Windows Phone 7 application (source and video below) that works against the open REST based API for Trade Me. http://code.blob.core.windows.net/trademe/myauctions.zip (source)…

Last week we delivered a series of developer events for Windows Phone 7 in New Zealand. This is a highlight video of the sessions. Further detail of the events can be found at…

Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nzJeff Atwood - aka Mr Codinghorror - is a technical evangelist who lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife,…

Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nz Interview with Chris Auld & Chris Klug about the Ticket Direct Silverlight Kiosk that was deployed…

Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nzGoing live today in time for tonight's match NV Interactive have launched the new NZC Match Centre IE8 web…

We started talking about Windows Azure at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in 2008. Over the past 12 months we've listened to the feedback from the technology preview programme and…

Windows 7 contains many new features for developers that allow you to create very rich applications for your users, including the ability to touch-enable your own applications. This session will cover…

I have previously written about the UNPLUGGED road trip that Mike, Nathan and I have been on. I also mentioned that I would be making a screen cast and sharing the source code from the…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit…

It started as a conversation about "crowd sourcing" images that people have already tagged as New Zealand to construct a demo from our shipping Silverlight 2 technology. I spent 3 days…

This MSDN UNPLUGGED session shares principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, October 2008. Presented by…

It is not everyday that the best sailors on the planet set up shop 150 metres from your work and race each other over a two week period but that is exactly what is happening for me right now. Check…

Windows Presentation Foundation is now becoming mainstream with real world applications being delivered using WPF to create engaging new user experiences as well as accelerate development times.…

I think there is a real opportunity to innovate on top of IE8 and provide your innovations packaged up to your customers next year when IE8 is launched. Please now sit back and join me for the…

At Tech.Ed 2008 in New Zealand speakers from the web track Scott Hanselman, Jonas Follesø, Nigel Parker, Harry Pierson, Jorke Ordolphi and Trent Mankelow were asked to discuss Web Futures and take…

I have just finished a road trip talking to developers about preparing for cloud computing, Silverlight 2, IE8 and upcoming announcements at PDC. The session is intended as a high level over-view…