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Yep, the internet is on! I think most of the comments I got yesterday all revolved around the fact that I posted all my presentations in PPTX format. I work for Microsoft, and well, I use PowerPoint to create my presentations. I figured most people, even if they didn't have PowerPoint on their machines would at least have the viewer so they could see the slides, but it sounds like quite a few people would rather have a PDF or some other format. So, here you go! TechEd: Top 5 Web Blunders ReMIX: Building Your Own Video Site ReMIX: Implementing Rich UI ReMIX: A Tour Around VS2008 ReMIX: Search Engine Optimization for Rich Media Note that these are stored on my personal website, so I can't guarantee how long they'll last as they're not on an official...

I think that this was my favorite session I did while doing all my ReMIX presentations. It was the one I found most interesting, and most relevant to the work that I do, and see many web developers and designers doing every day. I'm not sure if there is video for this session, but if it shows up, I'll be sure to link to it. In the mean time, I've included the slides for you to check out, and I'll try to get a blog post out about in the next week or two summarizing the info in the deck. Read More...

In Amsterdam and Zurich, I presented a session called Building Your Own Video Site. It was pretty cool, but sadly, the one hour we had to do the session, there was no real way to build the application up from scratch, so we just used a pre-built sample, and added some new UI and features to it. The site is available to play with today on the MIX07 servers at http://mixer1004.mixsandbox.com and you can see the slides and get the entire video from the MIX07 site . I would include the slides that I used here, but the PPTX is about 10megs, so I'd suggest getting it from the MIX07 site where there's a bigger pipe, and more edge servers. Read More...

I presented this session both in Amsterdam and in Zürich, though I managed to lose my notes in Zürich and had do to a number of the demo's by the seat of my pants which was a bit of a challenge. In any event, it was based on a session by Omar Khan of the VWD team that he presented at MIX07, called " Using Visual Studio Codename Orcas to Design And Devloper Rich AJAX Enable Web Sites " Read More...

In Amsterdam at ReMIX, I presented "Implementing Rich UI for Web Applications" where I showed how to deliver richly interactive web experiences with animation, video and more using Silverlight and Expression. It was based on a session from MIX07 by Joe Stegman titled " Building Rich Web Experiences using Silverlight and JavaScript for Developers " Read More...

In Amsterdam at ReMIX, I presented "Implementing Rich UI for Web Applications" where I showed how to deliver richly interactive web experiences with animation, video and more using Silverlight and Expression. It was based on a session from MIX07 by Joe Stegman titled " Building Rich Web Experiences using Silverlight and JavaScript for Developers " Read More...

At TechEd this year, I presented a session where I presented my top five pet peeves on the web, the biggest and easiest problems to avoid on the web. With how easy it is to share content on the web, I felt that these top five things were the best and easiest to get rid of. In order, I felt they were: 5. Unprofessional Site Design 4. Lousy Content 3. Poorly coded HTML/CSS/JavaScript 2. Inappropriate use of Rich Content 1. Not Being POSH I've attached my slides below, so check them out, and let me know what your pet peeves are! Read More...

Up until now, we've never had a great set of JavaScript debugging tools, but "Orcas", the next version of Visual Studio will have some great new JavaScript debugging tools. While Visual Web Developer "Orcas" hasn't shipped yet, there is a CTP available that you can download and install. The VWD team (and my old team) has posted on their blog a couple of blog posts about how to do JS debugging in VWD Orcas. It's worth checking out. Jscript Intellisense in Orcas: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/03/02/jscript-intellisense-in-orcas.aspx Jscript Intellisense in March CTP – Gotchas & Workarounds: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/03/07/jscript-intellisense-march-ctp-gotchas-workarounds.aspx Jscript Debugging in Visual...

Just before I headed up to Web Directions North, I wrote a little chunk of code to help me do a system back up. Enough people at work have been losing data on their hard disks, so I decided I wasn't going to have that happen to me. I picked up a NAS storage device, 2 500gig hard drives, and got it all set up at home. It works quite nicely. I set up SyncToy to back up all the data that I find important, and run daily or weekly. But one thing was not getting back up that I was a bit worried about. My RSS feed list. I couldn't find where the RSS platform stores the OPML list, or even if it does, so I figured, since it's an open platform, I'd just write a method that would create the OPML list for me! Once I got the initial work done, it was really...

I just finished my session titled "Internet Explorer 7 From CSS to RSS: How To Take Full Advantage" here at Web Design World, and it went over pretty well. Cameron Moll is currently doing a session right now, so we did lose quite a few people to him, but he's an excellent speaker and is showing some really cool CSS and design stuff, so I understand why they're over there. I talked about some of the cool features around IE7, like what quirks mode is vs. standards mode; how to use RSS on your site, how to implement OpenSearch on your page, and then finally some of the cool CSS fixes that we made for IE7. I've uploaded my slides along with this post so that the info can be shared. I'm don't have the samples that I showed available, but much of...