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Tool of choice: Windows LiveWriter

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I've been dog-fooding (that is, internally testing) Windows LiveWriter - for creating editing and posting to my three Blogs. Install, and it just works.
Tim Heuer's Flickr4Writer plugin is a must-have. A major time saver.
There are many positive stories about LiveWriter, this however James Clarke's takes the cake: JetFuel: Silverlight plugin for LiveWriter.  Something else to play [...]

The Geek Stories, Sharepoint Conference

Monday, May 21st, 2007

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AUReMIX07 Silverlight Video

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Watch the video here of Frank Arrigo and Monique Eagles here. Yes, you will need to install Silverlight.
This is my first experiment with Silverlight and the Microsoft Expression set of tools. Using the inbuilt players in Media Encoder saved many days/hours of hand coding; yet I am sure there is more in there that will tickle [...]

John Lam and Jim Hugunin: DLR Presentation

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Microsoft's John Lam and Jim Hugunin go large with the DLR at MIX07. Here are my notes whilst listening and watching the presentation:
What to expect: a Mac, TextMate, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Safari and Silverlight.  TextMate equals text editing. Silverlight is not binary, its just XML and text. You can break it apart and look at the [...]

By the light of Dynamic Silverlight

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Keeping secrets is tough. Hearing about the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) from John Lam in February this year was one of those secrets that kept well.
John Udell interviewed John Lam, and has a backgrounder here. Some in the Ruby community didn't see this coming.
Jim Hugunin has a posting on the new DLR, open source nature [...]

Doing more than Dumb Video

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Dumb Video is hard. You spend all your time editing, fixing audio, encoding and uploading.
Smart Video is going to be easy with this Microsoft Silverlight stuff. URLs, chapters, and deeper sub-tagging. All these ideas are flowing through my mind from this conversation from Uncle Dave, the Life Kludger.
Imagine a canvas of videos and podcasts. Zoom [...]

Another Monday, Too Much Software

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Well, it's not quite a normal Monday. Today is the first day of NAB2007, Las Vegas in the US.
Apple has new software toys. Shame I don't do production on a Mac.
Adobe has pre-release Premiere Pro and AfterEffects CS3 to help you use up spare bandwidth.
And Microsoft has announced something new called Silverlight! Well, actually it's that [...]

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