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As part of the recent MSDN Unplugged event I presented around New Zealand demonstrating some of the new features of IE9 and emerging HTML5 capabilities. This video shows how fast IE9 is using hardware acceleration for Canvas, SVG and video and compares to other browsers Firefox 4 RC, Chrome 10 and…

During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the premise of live sport, windows phone 7, surface and live smooth streaming. Thanks to  NV Interactive, Sky TV, Michael Kordahi, Jordan Knight, John Papa and Nigel Watson for helping me pull it…

Game is on! The New Zealand Windows Phone 7 application competition Yes! All ready to go. You can read more about our competition here: www.microsoft.co.nz/wp7challenge We have two competition categories: A Trade Me application or a "Free Style" one. You can download this sample source…

I have built a basic Windows Phone 7 application (source and video below) that works against the open REST based API for Trade Me. http://code.blob.core.windows.net/trademe/myauctions.zip (source) Since then Trade Me has released a full featured API and we have created a Windows Phone 7…

Last week we delivered a series of developer events for Windows Phone 7 in New Zealand. This is a highlight video of the sessions. Further detail of the events can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2010/06/18/new-zealand-windows-phone-7-dev-training-events.aspx

Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nzJeff Atwood - aka Mr Codinghorror - is a technical evangelist who lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, child, two cats, and a whole lot of computers. He was weaned as a software developer on various…

Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nz Interview with Chris Auld & Chris Klug about the Ticket Direct Silverlight Kiosk that was deployed recently to Warehouse stores in Christchurch to sell rugby tickets.

Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nzGoing live today in time for tonight's match NV Interactive have launched the new NZC Match Centre IE8 web slice and desktop application to live score all of the local domestic and international cricket…

Visual Studio 2010 will be released in early 2010 and promises to be a huge step forward from our development environment today. Coming with new programming languages, diagramming tools, testing enhancements, project types and a wealth of additional improvements, Visual Studio 2010 will provide…

We started talking about Windows Azure at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in 2008. Over the past 12 months we've listened to the feedback from the technology preview programme and we're launching Azure at PDC 2009. Watch and see how you can use it in your solutions. Learn…