One of my workmates summed up my first visit to Redmond when he informed everyone I was going on holiday to my “spiritual home”. Since then I’ve been out to visit Microsoft’s Redmond campus a couple of times. It’s a great experience, it’s a large centre, but in no way on the same scale as... Continue Reading →
PDC09 – Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4 beta ! This was the big day 2 news!. Tim Heur has a good overview of the new features here: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx If you want to get stuck in you can download the bits here: And there are some great training videos already published on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/ and on Silverlight.Net: http://silverlight.net/learn/ Silverlight 3... Continue Reading →
PDC09 Win7 Boot Camp
First we got an overview of the key kernel changes in Windows 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7) wonder if there will be any VHDs geared towards the Native VHD functionality in tomorrows PDC conference bags?. Then we got a cool? demo of a ‘hello world’ message running on a 96 processor system! Arun Kishan then went into more... Continue Reading →