You've probably already seen Major Nelson go through the upcoming XBox 360 dashboard update, but here are some behind the scenes photos taken before the shoot for anyone interested.  My amateurish photography still needs some work, but hopefully there are still some neat things for you to…

I'm constantly amazed at the scholarly journals that exist out there. Here's a new one: the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies, which is about the "cultural phenomenon of motorcycling" and not about mechanics. The authors' bios show an interesting diversity, including faculty of…

Lee Bandy chats with Scoble about IPv6 and the need for transition technologies. Learn why it is possible to write applications today that will work with a network infrastructure that is slowly migrating to IPv6 and that will work when that migration is  complete.

Major Nelson, the mac daddy of XBox Live, gives me a sneak peek at the new Xbox 360 dashboard update.  From queued downloads to streamed music to the new Xbox Live Vision cameras. This is your one stop shop.By the way, when you hear "released today" in the video... umm...…

In August 2004 I wrote a presentation called Patterns for SOA that would change my life – really! Since that time I have delivered this talk about 15 times in various locations from San Francisco to Amsterdam to Bangkok and many others. In spite of this I never really knew if this presentation…

The New York Times has an interesting article today (registration required I believe) on students who attend college without a high school diploma or GED. Apparently more and more colleges are accepting such students into degree programs.This brings up several concerns. One is about the meaning of a…

MSN R&Dセンターの陳さんにより、Windows Live Localの概要と日本での取り組みについてお届けします。Windows Live Localとは、マイクロソフトが１０数年携わってきている地図の技術を応用し、Webプラットフォームに新しい地域情報サービスを提供しようと開発しているものです。まだ、日本向けのWindows Live Localは公開されていませんが、日本のプロダクトマネージャの視点から、Windows Live…

Building on concepts from his previous screencast, Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert demonstrates more AJAX enabling capabilities of ASP.NET "Atlas."  You'll see how to AJAX enable ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts with a few simple steps. The…

InfoWorld has an interesting article about the intersection of IT education and business education. Which raises the question: what is the proper education for a CIO? It also raises the follow-on question: once they have the formal education, what's the idea path that someone should follow…

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces a new innovation named Content Types that allows users and developers to create reusable definitions for an item in a list or a document within a document library. This tutorial demonstrates how to create user-defined content types using inheritance and…