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The blog of Alex Barnett
I have invites for Windows Live QnA...
Well, lucky me and lucky you.Betsy, Krista and co have been good enough to let me have some invites...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2006
Let's REST!
A bunch of links to RESTful resources I've collated here and there - should be a good starting point...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2006
Video - ADO.NET Entity Framework: How. What. Why
Britt Johnston, Mike Pizzo and Pablo Castro are interviewed by Charles Torre in this Channel 9 video...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2006
Using the Flickr API with .NET
MSDN's Coding4Fun has a good intro article on playing with the Flickr API using Flickr.Net API...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2006
Interview - Xbox 360 'developer top gun'
Ars Technica gets on an interview with Matt Lee, a software engineer in the Game Technology Group at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/20/2006
MSR does Minority Report
Microsoft Research gets up to some very cool jolly swell stuff. Check out this video of some...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2006
Microsoft Announces 'Windows Principles'
Links and snippets below... Press release here: "Recognizing the important role the Windows®...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2006
Best Browser - Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?
ExtremeTech has written up the most comprehensive comparison between recent versions of three...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2006
A crack in this fine social scene?
John Udell has raised a point triggered by the Share Your OPML (SYO) OPML experiment that I've not...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2006
An inside, non-biased view of life at Microsoft.
Via Mitch Tulloch "Some humor to start your week–check out this recruiting video targeted toward...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/18/2006
OurSS
ehehe...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2006
Microsoft's Ultimate Beta Tester?
Microsoft's Ultimate Beta Tester? Itself: 60,000 machines were running Windows XP Service Pack 2...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2006
PLOJ or POJ?
In the age of Ajax this and Ajax that, just remember - for some things, plain old Javascript (PLOJ)...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2006
Here comes the widgetsphere
Deirdre Molloy of NMK has noticed something...and I like it... She's got the details, so I won't...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2006
Adobe's First 'Web 2.0' Application ! :-/
<snark alert>Now I wouldn't describe myself as a snarky sort of a blogger, but I confess, my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2006
Buy a Media Center, choose your poison.
Buy a Media Center, choose your poison (ingredients not included).
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2006
Buy a Mac, cook an egg
Buy a Mac, cook an egg. Via Mr Ou.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2006
Excel 2007 charting UX design
Sander Viegers is a user experience (UX) designer in the Office Design Group who contributed to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2006
Windows Live buggy
Nah, not that kind of buggy, this kind of buggy:
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2006
'most create use of a kitten to help illustrate a technical point' award
Danny Ayers is a good read at the worst of times. This post on the REST / RDF /XML discussion has my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2006
New rule
New rule. Very simple. If it's on techmeme.com I'm not blogging it.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2006
Video - The wonders of international business (at Microsoft)
I've worked on both sides of the Microsoft international equation - in the UK as the sub rep on...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/10/2006
Blogger runs for Mayor. With no money.
One of my favorite bloggers, J Wynia, has decided he's going to run for Mayor of the Minneapolis...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/08/2006
Scoble - the Channel 9 exit interview
Charles Torre grabbed Scoble for one last go on Channel 9, this time Scoble is the interviewee.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/07/2006
Office supports OpenDocument - early reactions
Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk provides some in-depth analysis on the news than Microsoft will sponsor...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2006
More FeedBurner statcrunching
As you might know, I like to keep an eye on my Feedburner / RSS / Aotm / feeds stats. Neville Hobson...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/03/2006
Techmeme hacked (redux)
Oh no, so it's happening again (again, again, again)...! And yes, it is an echo chamber. - Update:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2006
Ground floor: 1
Via Postbubble I came across standpedia. It is provided by the same team who developed standpoint....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2006
IE7 Beta 3 (more RSS goodness)
Microsoft's RSS team blog has this news. "IE7 Beta 3 is here! We’ve snuck in some goodies in the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2006
What is CodePlex?
Thanks to Sarah Ford for pointing out this interview on video (on Port25) with Korby Parnell...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2006
Enterprise tagging - off to the races...
TechCrunch outlines some of the features in a new product out there developed called ConnectBeam. It...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/28/2006
WinFS - Q and A with eWeek
eWeek: "Q&A: Corey Thomas, the group product manager for SQL Server, explains why Microsoft...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/28/2006
LibraryThing - it's not just about getting YOUR data IN...
Good to see LibraryThing getting a nice write up in the WSJ (via techmeme) I've mentioned the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/27/2006
Is WinFS dead?
Quentin Clark has posted an update to the WinFS update and answers some of the questions that came...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/27/2006
The Italian job
Australia was robbed. Awful. (I mean it).
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/26/2006
microformats viewer
This is no ordinary blog post. It has embeded microformat content, but you won't see it. This is the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/26/2006
Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
How cool is this? Carter Maslan points to the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK: "The SDK is organized...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/25/2006
On XSLT and LINQ to XML...
Yesterday Mike Champion (on XML team in Data Programmability) wrote up a post answering the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/23/2006
LINQ, ADO.NET and Entities
In case you missed it, Somasegar (Microsoft's VP of Developer Division) blogged today about some of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/22/2006
Live Clipboard + microformats + RSS (SSE) + Microsoft Outlook screencast
Matt Augustine (works in Ray Ozzie's Concept Development Team) presented a demo at the Supernova...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/21/2006
This town is addicted.
One of the joys of moving to this part of the world is the traffic. Now, everything is relative, and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/21/2006
Create BOT for Live Messenger, win cool stuff.
Via Frank La Vigne - if you're into AIs and help / KB systems here is just the challenge for you...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/21/2006
the opposite of Brewsters Millions
30 days to make $1m. From zero, nada, zilch. Well, $100, a cell phone and a one way ticket to New...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/20/2006
Feedback on Live Messenger
Some cool demos at On 10 of the new Live Messenger. Chris has some more great feedback for our...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/20/2006
Welcome to the blogosphere!...Now what?
Well, the 43rd comment to come in on this post of mine grumbling about Nameplanet's customer service...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/20/2006