Once again we head back to Kuala Lumpur to chat with architect William Tay about his recipe for performance and scalability success – his advice? Know the technology you rely on and avoid "cool" for cool's sake. Links Watch this episode on ARCast.TV Take the ARCast Listener…

Once again we head back to Kuala Lumpur to chat with architect William Tay about his recipe for performance and scalability success – his advice? Know the technology you rely on and avoid "cool" for cool's sake. Links Transcript for this episode Take the ARCast Listener Survey How…

Want a cheap webcam based laser range finder?  Todd Danko did and build two different applications to do it.  One is in Visual Basic 6 and the other is in Visual C++.  Todd based his application off the UB Robotics project.  Using some of the examples from Coding 4…

So we've been hearing about WPFE for a while now but Microsoft has just officially announced Microsoft Silverlight.  A new solution for being able to take video, interactivity, animation and make it available on Mac, Windows and many browsers.  We're talking cross-platform. …

50 years ago, creating your own TV show required an expensive license from a government agency, loads of expensive equipment and a frequency to transmit. I ran across UStream today.In the first days of the internet, tools like CuSeeme permitted video casting and transmission: however bandwidth was…

A warm thank you to all the participants in this year’s REMIX contest!  With over 100 entries it was a fantastic outpouring of creativity and artistry.  The difficult decision of picking grand prize winners and honorable mentions was left to our capable judges who picked the designs based…

You’ve probably seen by now that Windows Vista can be kicked up a notch by using a USB drive to help extend memory and cut the amount of time it takes for your computer to come back from sleep mode. But who wants a USB drive hanging off of their computer and taking up a precious external USB slot?…

My colleague Peter Laudati asked me to post this screencast of him demoing one of the newer features of local.live.com...collections. Enjoy!

This is the final video in the MSDN Wiki interview series. In this segment, I talked with Fabrice and Molly about the MSDN Internationalization Wiki. I love language - the living ones, the dead ones, the spoken ones, the ones nobody speaks anymore, C# - and I had a lot of questions in my head…

Another Mash-Up day where creative minds merge with technical minds and hopefully we all benefit from the pairing. If you DON'T know what a mash-up is then definitely watch this clip to find out- you might want to start attending an event like this near you. And if you DO know what a mash-up is,…