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Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:42 PM

On Our Cross Plat Commitment

When I joined Microsoft and started talking about Silverlight, many in the Mac community expressed skepticism about Microsoft’s long-term commitment to the Mac platform. In its most rabid form, the concern was that we were supporting the Mac only preemptively...
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Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:14 AM

Commitments

I’ve received a number of messages along the lines of, “Seems like things have really slowed down on your blog” or even “Hey, where’s the signal? Too much noise.” Fair enough ; though this is a common effect of the run up to a major “show” such as PDC...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:53 PM

Expectations Are Everything

Quick Bit Anyone who has ever debugged a program knows that you tend to see what you expect. I’ve learned that lesson a dozen times, in a dozen ways.  A classic example is to ask someone to read the following illustration aloud (don’t over-think...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:33 PM

In Response To DNR 476

Dot Net Rocks is certainly one of the most influential and valuable podcasts for .NET developers and their recent show (#476) was a compelling discussion about whether software development has become too complex. Recorded at DevLink in Nashville, the...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:43 AM

This is a note that I’m Cindy To Buy Chocolate

Remember the Newton ? Such a great idea… almost. Long before the iPhone, Apple released the Newton, promising that you could write in long hand and the Newton would turn your scrawl into printed words. Unfortunately, not always the words you wrote. There...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:09 PM

The State of Things – A Brief Review Before Tech Ed.

I think it is fair to say that interest in Silverlight is wicked-high. Twitter grades. Jesse: 99.5th percentile; Tim: 99.8th percentile! Between us Feedburner shows more than 10,000 subscribers 31 Silverlight Sessions at Mix, 30 at Tech Ed LiveSearch...
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Monday, April 06, 2009 4:14 PM

VideoWiki – A Open-Book Design-To-Delivery Silverlight 3 Project

VideoWiki Project and Meta-Project – Launch I am pleased to announce a new long term project that I am launching here on Silverlight.net, principally on my blog, but that will reach into my videos and beyond. This note is the entry point to the project;...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:07 AM

On Email and Organization

Some people are naturally organized – my wife can (literally) find a receipt from five years ago within minutes. I’m lucky if I can find a receipt from Mix. Organization Through Larger Boxes I recently read a book that suggested that people like me have...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:07 PM

Mix 09 Trip Report

  It is traditional when you return from a conference to file a "trip report" with your team. What follows is my trip report to you , with an emphasis on what I learned. I will not review, here, all that was discussed about what is new...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:26 PM

Tiny Laptops

    The latest craze among us geeks are the ill-named Nettops ; – ill named because they've quickly exceeded the implicit assumption that they are best used for surfing the net and not much else.  These micro-laptops are now typically under...
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:07 PM

Using statistics well

I recently wrote a rant about the use (and overuse) of statistics, and pointed to the Twitter Influence Calculator (now Twitalyzer ) as a working example of statistics of questionable value. I should have paused. It turns out that (a) they are quite thoughtful...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:19 AM

Better Navigation

I was pretty happy with the threading navigation I had introduced…   Just to double check, I asked my buddy David Platt , author of the absolutely essential Why Software Sucks , to take a look. He was quite gentle in ripping my guts out. He pointed...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:27 PM

We love to measure everything

I just received a note from a colleague about the " Twitter Influence Calculator ." Not being able to resist, I immediately put in my name and out popped more statistics than you can shake a stick at… I chopped out the actual numbers because they are...
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Monday, February 02, 2009 2:51 PM

New Look?

The new look is explained here , but was launched in anticipation of Mix and the advent of Silverlight 3 , which I believe will open a whole new chapter for Silverlight and Microsoft. Renew. Refocus. Respond.
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Friday, January 16, 2009 12:20 PM

Outlook on my PC and Phone and Keeping Organized

This message has nothing to do with Silverlight  Feel free to skip it. I have been struggling since I joined Microsoft to ensure that I don't miss any messages that are important I spend less time managing my 600+ daily emails * I file everything...
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