New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events
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...
View ArticleSample Windows Phone 7 Application for Trade Me
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)Since...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Trade Me Developer Starter Kit
Game is on! The New Zealand Windows Phone 7 application competitionYes! All ready to go.You can read more about our competition here:www.microsoft.co.nz/wp7challengeWe have two competition categories:...
View ArticleThree Screen & A Cloud New Zealand TechEd Keynote Demo
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...
View ArticleIE9 HTML5 Video and Site Pinning
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 hardware...
View ArticleMSNZ Unplugged IE8 With Matt Heller
We delivered a road show across New Zealand over the course of 7 days. Matt delivered 17 sessions, visited Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and spoke to over 750 Web Developers. We recorded the...
View ArticleTech.Ed New Zealand - Web Panel Discussion
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...
View ArticleJonas Follesø - Silverlight 2 for Developers - Tech.Ed NZ
The session was designed to give developers who want to build “real applications” a good starting point. It’s a level 300 talk (advanced), so it skips the basic introduction. That being said you don’t...
View ArticleDeveloping Compelling Silverlight User Experiences with Expression Studio 2 -...
Presented at Tech.Ed New Zealand. Expression Studio 2 delivers powerful tools to create natural and engaging user experiences. In this session you’ll learn how the Expression tools works together to...
View ArticleCustomising IE8 to Drive Users to Your Website
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 next 45...
View ArticleNext Generation User Experiences - WPF 3.5 SP1
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. Join...
View ArticleSilverlight 2 and the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series
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 out...
View ArticleTake your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure,...
This MSDN UNPLUGGED session shares principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, October 2008. Presented by...
View ArticleNZsynth Building a Clickable Mosaic with DeepZoom and Silverlight 2
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 building a...
View ArticleExpression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April - Final Presentations
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...
View ArticleExpression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April
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...
View ArticleUNPLUGGED Silverlight 3 Line of Business with RIA Services May Preview
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 Silverlight 3...
View ArticleRich Client Applications and Windows 7 for Developers
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...
View ArticleHTML 5, Standards and Developer Features in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Shot in Wellington, New Zealand on Friday the 18th Sep as part of the Microsoft Unplugged series of events http://microsoft.co.nz/unpluggedThis session is presented by Giorgio Sardo (Technical...
View ArticleFTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome & Firefox running together on Windows 7
When you buy Windows 7 (pro or ultimate) you get Windows XP "virtualized" for free. What this means that if you are web developer you can finally have IE6, IE7, IE8 all running alongside each other as...
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