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Ice Cube talking about Silverlight...

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:42:00 GMT

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 can watch an interview with him about it in Silverlight. (on a side note, I decided not to include the video into my post, even though the instructions to do so are right there in the original blog entry, because it is set to auto-start when someone visits the page and I think that is just downright rude :) )

The post is interesting, the video is interesting... but what is really interesting is the fun going on in the comments on that blog entry, including comments from Mike Downey of Adobe and Scott Barnes of Microsoft... fun stuff. The old 'if you have nothing nice to say...' rule probably should have been applied for both of them.

found via Mix Online

The new Zune software rocks!

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:31:00 GMT

Great UI, podcast support, music video downloads... and a firmware that works on my 'original' Zune.

and look at the great member info page!

Internal Microsoft tool, eScrum, is available to the public...

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:10:00 GMT

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 and tools for use with Team Foundation Server and it really rocks. There are few less-than-polished elements about the install and the web interface, but I'm glad they shipped it out for general use.

You can read a good summary of eScrum on the blog 'A Developer's Life', which is also a good resource for lots of other Visual Studio related news.

Rory gives us the inside scoop on the Microsoft Research TechFest

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:54:00 GMT

Microsoft Research TechFest - Intro, DynaVis, and FastDash

... In this, the first video in what will be a series covering this event, we get a nice introduction to TechFest, some info about Microsoft Research (MSR), and two projects: DynaVis and FastDash.

When you watch this video, hopefully you get an idea of why I'm so excited right now. Once I have the whole series online, you'll be able to see the amazing work being done in MSR - and this only represents a few projects. There are many others. ...

Every year at Microsoft there is a little internal-only conference where Microsoft Research (MSR) shows off their projects. It is very cool but very private (badges checked at the door, etc...). Well, this year it is a bit different... For MSR TechFest 2007 they've allowed folks to come in and interview the researchers, take pictures/video, whatever... crazy stuff and you get to see the results first on Channel 9. Rory tours us around, gives us an intro to the whole event and even covers a couple of projects... and this is just the first of the series!