Not all Facebook data is in a "Walled Garden"
Aug 02, 2007
The Facebook is a “Walled Garden” meme continues today with a post from pal Robert Scoble that continues the assumption that all Facebook data is somehow “locked” into Facebook. Here’s a quick snippet: _First, let’s go back to Facebook. Why does everyone say it’s a “walled garden?” Because you can’t get to data stored on Facebook unless you’re a Facebook member. Two days ago I did a video for Chris Pirillo on Facebook.…more
Part 1 of 5: What's in Visual Studio Express 2008 Beta 2
Aug 01, 2007
This 5-part blog series will help you, dear reader, to understand what new features will be directly supported inside of Visual Studio Express 2008. In this post, I’ll give a quick overview of the most common questions still asked about Express and then dive into some of the language enhancements coming in 2008. Where appropriate, I’ll list which Express product or language includes what features. Visual Studio Express 2008 Overview * **Versions: **Visual Web Developer, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ * Cost: $0 * Commercial Use: Yes * Side-by-Side Compatibility: All Express products are designed to work side-by-side with both Visual Studio 2005 Express/Pro/VSTS and Visual Studio 2008 Express/Pro/VSTS.…more
Visual Studio Express Beta 2 Available for download!
Jul 26, 2007
Visual Basic Visual C# Visual C++ Visual Web Developer Express Are all now available for download for free!
Making an educated seafood choice
Jul 17, 2007
Courtesy of Jana, next time you’re out to dinner with friends, remember to pull out your handy Seafood guide provided by Seafood Watch so that you can make an educated choice on seafood entrees and avoid over-farmed or bad-for-the-environment choices. Without it, you’d never know that folks on the west coast should avoid Atlantic Cod, imported Swordfish (domestic is fine) or Yellowfin tuna. If nothing else, whipping out the guide and letting your dinner party aware of your intellectual seafood superiority.…more
Rubber Ducks Everywhere
Jul 17, 2007
First it was John’s story about a fleet of 29,000 rubber ducks that are “invading” the UK after being at sea for 15 year’s and traveling over 17,000 miles. Then Tim Heuer made me a Simpson’s Popfly avatar with the very cool online Simpson’s Avatar creator tool as part of their promotion for the Simpson’s movie. Now, as Aaron mentioned, a group of French artists have created a massive rubber ducky…more
TestDriven.NET and Express - Technical Information
Jun 01, 2007
I quickly wanted to respond to questions or misconceptions raised in the comments of my previous blog post. A common question or misconception in the comments is saying that if didn’t want extensibility we _should have _provided technical limitations to prevent extensibility (see comments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18). Express Extension Workarounds To respond, Visual Studio Express extensibility is limited in a number of ways.…more
Visual Studio Express and TestDriven.NET
Jun 01, 2007
Updated with follow up post on technical information in response to the comments. While I’m not a lawyer, my team owns Visual Studio Express and I wanted to respond to the concerns expressed by some over our recent communications with Jamie Cansdale of TestDriven.NET. TestDriven.NET is a 3rd party add-in to Visual Studio that provides testing functionality in Visual Studio. To be clear, we have no issue with the product (or Jamie for that matter), or its sale for use in professional versions of Visual Studio.…more
Facebook F8 Event Photos
May 24, 2007
Mark Zuckerberg kicking things off Some insane stats, 12MM people return daily, 24+ million users, 40 billion page views Facebook provides you a Canvas that you can do anything with including full ASP.NET or Popfly applications Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President talking about Popfly and Visual Studio Express
Microsoft + Facebook Partnership
May 24, 2007
Today at Facebook F8, Corporate Vice President Dan’l Lewin announced a new partnership between Microsoft and Facebook. * Popfly Facebook Block: Available immediately, we’ve added the Facebook block which prodices access to Facebook data including the User Profile, Friends, Photos, Photo Albums, and Events. * Leverage Existing Blocks: You can build Facebook applications using Popfly blocks like Flickr, Digg, Soapbox, Twitter, Windows Live, Xbox Live, and Virtual Earth. * Silverlight Support: Another big win here is Facebook has native support for Easily build next generation applications using Silverlight.…more
Microsoft Launches Popfly
May 18, 2007
A lot of long hours and hard work later, we officially launched Popfly as a private alpha!! What the heck is it? Popfly is the fun, easy way for anyone to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts: Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.…more