Caring about the developer community

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One of my fellow GWB bloggers recently posed the question “Do you care about your developer community?” and offered some interesting ideas for user groups to adopt to help foster more community spirit. Hopefully whatever troubles D’Arcy is having will straighten themselves out, but the questions he asks... Read more

IE8 Standards Mode Problems

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In a previous post I talked about the new IE8 Beta 1 release and IE7 compatibility mode. In that post I mentioned that I had only run in to one site that didn’t render properly in IE8 standards mode. Since that post, I took a look at my blog... Read more

Silverlight 2 Beta 1

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More announcements from Mix came from Scott Guthrie, who announced the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. (In case you don’t know, Silverlight 2 was previously called Silverlight 1.1) This release provides a lot of new features and controls, including layout containers such as a Grid and StackPanel,... Read more

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

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The Microsoft MIX08 conference is going on this week and even though I didn’t go this year (maybe next year or ReMix) there are enough people blogging about what’s happening at the conference that you can still keep up with most... Read more

BillG demos Xobni

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I have talked about Xobni several times before and absolutely love this product. It turns out Xobni is a Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program partner. There are lots of benefits to the program like free software, consulting help, press releases, introductions to Microsoft people, partners, and even VCs.... Read more