Microsoft’s Live Mesh platform has been nominated for the 2008 Crunchies “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” award! The winner will be determined by public vote, so get yourself over to http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/votes/ to cast your vote for your favorite technologies of 2008. The Crunchies competition and award ceremony recognizes and celebrates the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations [...]
Dec 302008
About two days ago, my Google homepage suddenly became hostile toward me. By hostile, I mean my IE7 browser is suddenly reporting a bunch of JavaScript errors and faults when loading the Google homepage that it wasn’t reporting before. Whenever I visit my Google homepage now, I have to wade through 5 or 6 JavaScript error [...]
I’ll be speaking at the next Bay.NET user group meeting this Wednesday Dec 17 on Live Mesh application development using Live Frameworks. There will be a few slides, mostly for the infamous but necessary system stack diagrams, but the majority of the session will be spent showing and running code. I’ll open by exploring the different types of applications [...]
Dec 112008
The Amazon Sellers online order processing system (AOB) has been offline since early Thursday (Dec 11, 2008) morning, after intermittant outtages and poor response times starting the day prior. Amazon reports that customers can still place orders for merchandise, but the orders are not showing up on Amazon’s order fulfillment web page for third party sellers [...]
Dec 052008
This may be old news to some, but it just popped up on my radar: Ori Amiga, frustrated with the lack of truely usable and connected smart devices in the automotive market, built his own custom touchscreen PC console for his Porsche. It’s a full-on PC running Vista and loaded up with GPS, WiFI, BlueTooth, [...]
The Live Services team will be hosting a live webcast to discuss and demo Live Frameworks development topics next Monday December 8, 2008 from 8am to 10am PST (12am – 2am GMT). This will be a great opportunity to listen in on technical topics on developing applications with Live Frameworks, both standalone desktop apps as well [...]