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- What does Transparency mean to me?
- The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
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- Sanity Prevails
- 28 Weeks. 18 Weeks Down
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- Microsoft and Web 2.0 Stuff
- Bing Box on your Website or Blog
- New.CloudApp();
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« Previous EntriesSanity Prevails
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009The FOSS community has been concerned about the difficulties, pros and cons of including Mono-built applications as a part of standard Linux builds. Both Pro and Con.
Most recently, the Ubuntu Technical Board posted to their Ubuntu Developer Announce mailing list their extermely pragmatic position on Mono applications.
Today Microsoft extended the Community Promise to the two […]
28 Weeks. 18 Weeks Down
Tuesday, June 30th, 200918 Weeks
18 weeks and 735 emails ago, Gianpaolo green-lighted my involvement on an Andrew Coates flight of fancy: What if we gave every paid delegate of TechEd a Netbook running Windows 7? Ideas are easy, implementation is hard.
By involvement read “Project Management”. And, oh what a wonderful ride it has been.
18 weeks of discussions, negotiations and […]
Microsoft and Web 2.0 Stuff
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Like Michael Rees, Kathryn Greenhill asked me to list “web 2.0″ things that Microsoft has available to provide some balance to a Murdoch University event.
By web 2.0, Kathryn meant: “To me, Microsoft plays really well in the large corporate ap space and is very good at that … but if I want to show people […]
New.CloudApp();
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Why not try making a new cloud application on Microsoft Azure with PHP. And potentially #win?
More details are on the New.CloudApp() web site.
Microsoft and Open Source, Unhandled Exceptions. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
Thursday, May 28th, 2009Microsoft and Open Source, Unhandled Exceptions.
Microsoft and Open source? Isn’t that like cats and dogs living together? Discuss and learn what (where and why) Microsoft is embracing Open source. See which Microsoft technology can positively affect your Open source based projects, and how you can contribute. We would also like to hear your unfiltered […]
The offer
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009DM me at @nickhodge
Only 5. ALL GONE!!
Once received, I need a picture of you in said T-shirt – in a public place. Please be wearing more than the T-shirt supplied.
Using Webslice and IFrames in WebSlices
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Testing only. If you are reading this, please ensure you are using Internet Explorer 8
Webslices are new consumer feature in Internet Explorer 8. You can embed simple HTML within a WebSlice that is a portion of a pre-existing page. To get IFRAMES and OBJECT to work there is a little tweaking required. Then you get […]
To a Social Media Practitioner
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Today was the last day I will appear as a “social media expert” on behalf of Microsoft. The internet and social media is mainstream, and it’s time to move on. And do my real day job: evangelising Microsoft’s developer tools.
Background
Over the weekend, Channel 10’s Rove attempted to fist twitter, bringing in at least 1000 new […]
The Future
Saturday, February 28th, 2009I first met Stephen Elop during Macromedia/Adobe integration talks and subsequently in Punta Mita, Mexico. He is one smart cookie for a Canadian.
Now here is at Microsoft leading the business software side. Watch this video to get a glimpse of the future of technology in our lives. The key theme I can see is the […]
This digital life (version 2.0) May 2007
Friday, January 30th, 2009From Vista magazine, May 2007
This digital life (version 2.0)
Nick, a recent addition to Microsoft, is a long time blogger, presenter and geek. Read Nick’s exploits and stories at http://www.nickhodge.com. A part of Nick’s “job” at Microsoft is to collect and record Australia’s Geek Stories. Turn your web browser to http://thegeekstories.com. To hear what Nick is doing almost […]
