Last night I was at the Crunchies (Oscars for Technology) and watched Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell pick up the award for Best Technology Innovation at the Crunchies award ceremony in San Francisco. It was a great night for a number of reasons. First, we won the award. Second, MySpace threw the after party and…
Year: 2009
New Biography
Just drafted a new bio, interested to get your feedback! James Senior (http://www.jamessenior.com) James is based in Seattle as the Technical Evangelist for Live Services at Microsoft. Live Services provide both amazing online experiences for 500 million users worldwide and an open platform on which developers and businesses can connect easily with them. James works…
Windows 7 Videos – come get some!
As Steve Ballmer announced last night at CES, Windows 7 Beta 1 is now available! On Channel 9 and Channel 10, we are planning to publish a series of videos on Windows 7 readiness for enthusiasts, partners, and developers, including the following videos that are now live: Channel 10: Windows 7 at CES – The…
Ballmer gets SMS from some interesting people
If you didn’t catch CES tonight, Ballmer kicked off his first CES keynote with some SMS messages he may (or may not) have received prior to the event. I laughed out loud reading Gates, Yang and Blagojevich. Good form Ballmer, good form. Courtesy of Gizmodo – fun iHate comments going down too for added enjoyment.
Trouble logging into http://developer.mesh-ctp.com?
Running up to Christmas we dished out quite a few new Live Mesh Tokens to people who were waiting in the line. To sign up for a developer account (enabling you to code against Live Mesh and Live Framework) you needed to visit http://lx.azure.microsoft.com (The Azure Services Developer Portal) and redeem your tokens. If at…
Live Framework Walkthrough Guides
This week I’ve been exploring more and more of the Live Framework and playing around with building some demos and samples. To help me out I’ve found the Live Framework Walkthrus really useful: Walkthrough Resource Model and Feeds Walkthrough MeshApp Walkthrough Extending the Resource Model Walkthrough DotNet Toolkit You can download them from here: http://dev.live.com/liveframework/liveframeworksdkwalkthroughs.zip…
Slipstreaming features on Windows Live
The beauty of services is that it provides the ability to add new features rapidly and discretely. I was playing around with some of my photos on http://home.live.com earlier and when looking at an album’s thumbnails it gave me an option to install a new feature that made my thumbnails look even better. Well of…