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2009 8

  1. Expression 3 available for pre-order
  2. From about:blank to bing.com
  3. Microsoft Expression offer in UK 40% off
  4. Flash v Silverlight Gallery
  5. More designer/developer wallpaper – use it and win coffee
  6. A tidy desk
  7. Microsoft Expression Webcasts
  8. MSDN UK events – Silverlight and WPF

2008 87

  1. Silverlight skills are hot!
  2. My festive geek gift list
  3. CM’s Christmas card in Silverlight Deepzoom
  4. Photosynth goes Silverlight
  5. Are designers and developers really that different?
  6. Expression UK Newsletter launches - and every issue includes a free gift....
  7. BMW first car company to implement Microsoft Surface
  8. Last.fm hack day event in December
  9. web platform installer explained
  10. Live Photo Gallery uploader to Facebook and YouTube
  11. Get your designer/developer wallpaper here...
  12. Microsoft Student Technology Day Videos Online - SteveB and more industry/MSFT greats
  13. My Xbox Live Avatar - get yours!
  14. The DPE white coats explain Azure
  15. 140+ videos on Expression training
  16. FREE Designer event in Manchester on 3/12 - Screenedit Sessions
  17. Imagine Cup, Competitors at the ready....
  18. Design Experience video - Tricky Business session from Silverlight usergroup in UK
  19. Mix 2009 is now open for registrations
  20. Activating and getting set up with Expression Studio Professional Subscription
  21. DreamSpark promotional kits available to UK universities and colleges
  22. Remix videos online
  23. A website named desire
  24. From Flash to Silverlight - Project Rosetta
  25. H.264 and AAC support coming to Silverlight
  26. Paolo on Live Mesh...
  27. Microsoft Student Technology Day - 1 October
  28. Mojave Experiment, now with added Silverlight
  29. Imagine Cup UK - The winners story
  30. Expression Blend tutorial videos on Microsoft.com
  31. I'll be at Remix UK in Brighton on 18-19 September
  32. Silverlight + Deepzoom + Cars = Me Happy
  33. Mojave Experiment - the geek's blind taste test
  34. I'm 5 today...5 years at Microsoft
  35. Want to see some cool Silverlight sites?
  36. Heading to Paris for Imagine Cup...
  37. Imagine Cup UK - 5 June Final
  38. Environmental software businesses...
  39. Achieve what you can imagine
  40. Microsoft store launches in the UK...
  41. My lack of blogging....
  42. Student? Want to see the Foo Fighters play Wembley? Look on in...
  43. XNA Creators Club codes in MSDN AA now
  44. Game Development Imagine Cup in the UK
  45. Great advice for Imagine Cup competitors
  46. Popular with tech students? Love coding and all things technology - apply in here...
  47. HP Mini-Note
  48. The Ultimate Steal...or Office for £38.95 is now available to university staff as well
  49. Expression...nah...its all about MSPaint for designers
  50. Imagine Cup competitors - where are they now? Channel 8 videos online
  51. My love for Silverlight...
  52. Last.fm Comes to Vista Media Centre
  53. Imagine Cup Day on 5th June 2008 - Celebrating the best in UK student talent
  54. Herding cats at Microsoft
  55. Cool ad...
  56. New Expression Community launched
  57. adCenter Blogs and Forums launched
  58. Visual Express Developer Center in Silverlight
  59. Designer v Developer
  60. Silverlight blog for design agencies
  61. Did I miss something? The king is dead, long live the...
  62. UltimatePC.com launches
  63. Silverlight comes to Nokia
  64. Another digital lifestyle video ("Girl from Mars")
  65. Fancy staying on Necker Island?
  66. Starbucks prank
  67. Silverlight event for *UK* Academics - 12th March 2008
  68. Microsoft Digital Life
  69. Silverlight 2 tutorials from ScottGu
  70. SkyDrive out of beta
  71. Gadget rumour drool...
  72. Bill Gates at Stanford on Channel 8
  73. DreamSpark is here.... Visual/Expression Studio and more for FREE for university students...
  74. Dell Regeneration/Graffiti Contest winners announced.
  75. How Microsoft builds software
  76. Silverlight game Zombomatic launched on MiniClip.com
  77. Off to Seattle
  78. Imagine Cup UK Upload Page
  79. Conference calls
  80. Silverlight to be available as optional download on Windows Update
  81. Our house in the middle of our street, la la....
  82. What you can do with a decent video camera these days - Bloody Omaha
  83. Popfly Human style
  84. Bill's last day at the Office
  85. Synergy - great for multi-PC setups like mine
  86. Silverlight training videos
  87. Bill Gates' final CES keynote in Silverlight

2007 130

  1. Silverlight based Tafiti released as Shared Source
  2. How cool are you this Christmas?
  3. Where are they now? Imagine Cup 2004 and 2005 Competitor - Luke Smith
  4. innerworkings - Train your developers to code (properly)
  5. Microsoft Download Center and Silverlight
  6. British Army use Xbox 360 controllers :-)
  7. Software Design competition - work required?
  8. BMW and Silverlight
  9. Channel 8 - Rob Miles on teaching and all things .NET
  10. Like the StudentZine newsletter - take this quick survey
  11. What happens when you register for the Imagine Cup...
  12. How to get your students registered for the Imagine Cup
  13. Added the Instant Messenger Gadget - you can talk to me
  14. FreePlay Lounge - the movie!
  15. Faculty: Promoting Imagine Cup to your students
  16. Xbox 360 + Students + Paul Smith = Freeplay lounge and GamesCity event
  17. Are you interested in teaching Silverlight? Then read on...
  18. Xbox 360 Elites have arrived...
  19. Mix:UK session videos now available
  20. Microsoft jobs in Europe for Silverlight development and Live
  21. Check out the Microsoft.com (UK) homepage to see the Imagine Cup
  22. Silverlight and me appear on Partner TV (again)
  23. Imagine Cup UK launches - Students Enter Now!
  24. Blogging contest - win £1200 and more
  25. Our very first Channel 8 video posted
  26. Channel 8 goes Silverlight
  27. Office 2007 for £38.95
  28. Microsoft Student Partner on a journey
  29. Windows Live Suite
  30. Silverlight and Linux - woah!
  31. Halo 3 and Silverlight goodness
  32. Green Windows Home Server
  33. Tafiti.com - search engine built on Silverlight
  34. A little blog redirection
  35. Students...we're coming to a university near you - Microsoft Inspiration Tour
  36. Imagine Cup Video - blast from the past
  37. Silverlight interview with me on Partner TV
  38. XNA Studio 2.0 announced
  39. Windows Live SkyDrive
  40. WPF + monopoly = WPFopoly
  41. Imagine Cup 2007 Winners announced.
  42. Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals Korea - armchair viewing...
  43. Dotcom boom in the UK
  44. 'Microsoft,Robot' - Robotics Studio
  45. MSDN Roadshow 2007
  46. 6 Silverlight Screencasts (MSDN Nuggets)
  47. Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available
  48. Mix UK is event registration is live
  49. XNA Chief - We need interesting curriculi
  50. Channel8 is now live
  51. Expression Blend book
  52. Microsoft UK Student page goes live - built on Silverlight
  53. Channel9, on10....Channel 8 is coming....
  54. Imagine Cup UK team video talking about the development of their entry and journey to Korea
  55. Silverlight and Expression screencast tutorials
  56. Mix is coming to Britain in September 2007
  57. Popfly is top website to watch!
  58. Slide 7 session slides and demos
  59. Happy with my new Lenovo PC
  60. Silverlight on Microsoft.com
  61. WPF Hands on lab - building an Outlook clone
  62. MSDN Roadshow 2007 is over
  63. Safari on Windows...lucky I just handed my Mac back too...
  64. Silverlight, Ink and Sidebar gadgets is a nice combo
  65. A 100% subsidised conference for UK Academics - too good an opportunity to pass up!
  66. Last.fm sells for 140m of her majesty's pounds
  67. Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime
  68. NxtGenUG on Channel9 - the night of the presentation in the plane
  69. For all Windows Mobile Bubblebreaker fans, now on Silverlight
  70. Random presenting experience
  71. WindowsClient.net community for rich-client/desktop developers
  72. Silverlight on Windows Mobile: early prototype video
  73. Silverlight Mindmap
  74. An introduction to WPF for academics
  75. Silverlight Mix07 keynote demo available for download
  76. Silverlight Developer Reference poster
  77. Silverlight 1.1 Getting started?
  78. End to end WPF demo - Family.Show
  79. Silverlight DreamScene content available
  80. Everyone is at Mix but me, but I can still play along at home...
  81. 3rd party Silverlight controls available already
  82. Adobe and Microsoft's RIA offerings
  83. Visual Studio 'Orcas' Beta 1 available online
  84. agHost in Silverlight
  85. "WPF/E" becomes Silverlight
  86. WPF Styles and Template explained with style
  87. Mark of the Web
  88. Free web application hackers workshop coming up
  89. PhotoStore WPF demo
  90. VBUG Northeast WPF, Expression and WPF/E event follow-up
  91. Workaround for Visual Studio 'Orcas' March CTP and Blend not playing together
  92. Bootcamp 1.2 released
  93. Podcast software and kit - what do I need?
  94. It's me..at the MSDN roadshow
  95. Using a Downloader object with MediaElement in WPF/E
  96. Softies on Rails
  97. Camtasia with Vista support now released
  98. Updated my WPF/E Video Player
  99. Hosting WPF/E code on an ISP - adding content types
  100. Building a simple video player with WPF/E tutorial
  101. Example of WPF/E and ASP.NET Ajax working together
  102. Expression Blend Release Candidate now available
  103. Some WPF/E examples for those that attended the MSDN event in Reading last week
  104. WPF and Accessibility
  105. Extreme WPF Makeover by Frog Design
  106. OT: Put a Linux Guru through pain (for charity...mate)
  107. Free 'Web 2.0' training with Mix University
  108. WPF based Daily Mail (UK) eReader beta released
  109. WPF Application Portfolio on Channel9
  110. Calling all UK architects, Architect Insight Conference
  111. Expression Blend tutorial videos
  112. Rich Client Development with XAML Resources: MS UK Technical Roadshow 2007
  113. Vista Sidebar Gadget Resources from Conchango
  114. Nice new gadget from Universal Music
  115. In Seattle for training this week
  116. WPF/E December CTP prematurely expired, February CTP released
  117. Visual Studio Keyboard shortcuts
  118. Vista and Office Developer Roadtrip kicks off tomorrow
  119. OT: Sponsor fellow teammate Mike Ormond run the London Marathon for Hearing Dogs
  120. WPF Screencast - Layout
  121. UK Vista and Office Developer Launch UPDATE: If you see this vehicle WAVE!
  122. UK Vista and Office Developer Launch tour hits the road
  123. WPF app - Yahoo Messenger looks amazing
  124. Turn off WPF Designer view when opening XAML files
  125. Designertopia - 1st/2nd February, London
  126. WebDD Backnetwork registration is open
  127. More gadget goodness from DPE Intern, Matt
  128. FREE copies of Windows Vista and Office for UK developers
  129. To do: Create perfect WPF workstation
  130. Windows Live for TV - another great example of WPF

2006 61

  1. WPF/E Dev Center
  2. WPF - how to map mouse clicks on a 3D shape to a 2D texture coordinate
  3. Windows Live Search for Mobile
  4. WebDD site live - DDD for Web designers and developers - UK 3rd February 2007
  5. Developer Developer Developer 4
  6. UK MSDN Roadshow dates announced
  7. The Panel - Creating front end experiences
  8. Camtasia and Windows Vista RTM
  9. Interesting interview with J + J (or 2J or John and Jon) on Web Accessibility and Design
  10. Visual Studio 2005 Hotfix Support
  11. SWF to XAML converter released by Michael Swanson
  12. WPF Screencast - Applying BitmapEffects on Controls
  13. WPF Screencast - Introduction to animation
  14. WPF Screencast - Introduction to Brushes
  15. WPF Screencast - Introduction to Shapes
  16. Birmingham University Talk - Lap around WPF
  17. Talk about 'Web 2.0' - Check out Photosynth from the Live Labs team
  18. No 3D glasses needed...Virtual Earth updated with 3D
  19. Mix it up in 07 - Mix07 dates announced
  20. Whether you write code to get a paycheck or do it in your bedroom/den/study/living-room Coding4Fun is just Fun!
  21. Is Microsoft getting slick in it's old age? Vista and Office boxes released
  22. A couple of cool more WPF demo applications to show off!
  23. Windows Presentation Foundation search engine using Windows Live Search Macros
  24. Reach/richness of user experience technologies
  25. WPF Features Video
  26. Build an add-on for IE and win $2500 and a trip to Mix07
  27. Bit of Friday fun, sexy searching with Ms. Dewey
  28. ASP.NET Ajax Beta Released
  29. Devweek 2007 - Designing WPF applications with Expression and Visual Studio
  30. Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer Tutorials
  31. Learning WPF from a Windows Forms programmer's perspective
  32. Channel9 - Screencast lap around AJAX.NET by Nikhil Kothari
  33. Update on NYT Reader - a walkthrough of the application
  34. Channel9 does London (please read out load in your best Michael Caine voice)
  35. My former employer is taking on my current one - Supermarket enters the software game
  36. The 1st *killer* WPF Application - New York Times
  37. Now running Vista on all my work machines - including shiny Macbook Pro
  38. A cool video of the Zune up on 10...and I just bought my sister an iPod Video for her birthday
  39. Cool picture of all the new Vista Icons
  40. Great User Experiences which are really bad
  41. Getting design time rendering of ASP.NET Themes in Expression Web
  42. Expression Web - Visual Aids and CSS management cool features
  43. For the man/woman that has everything, the mouse that does it all too!
  44. Ruby on .NET and WPF revolution
  45. Developer Developer Developer IV - Your opportunity to present (UK ONLY)
  46. Using IE7 Search for MSDN
  47. More Gadget Goodness
  48. Vista RC1 Sidebar Gadget Object Model documentation updated
  49. SiDEBAR GADGETS: Using Javascript to poll an ASMX web service
  50. macbook pro issues - bootcamp, ati and external monitors
  51. XNA Express BETA released - games industry 2.0
  52. Introduction to writing Windows Sidebar Gadgets - my random notes
  53. Imagine Cup India Photos posted
  54. Super-Intern Matt Duffin developing killer bots...
  55. Back from the Imagine Cup in India
  56. Super super super excited to see the back of super
  57. Just spotted a cool new designer community - Re:merged
  58. Presenting 101++
  59. NextDesignNow - great resource for budding UX gurus like me!
  60. Mark Johnston - who is he?
  61. The killer bots are coming...