The MossyBlog Times Archives 2007 - 2009
Rich Fertile ground of Interactive development & design
Must fight urge to do "year in review 2008" post.
Look, I have lots of regrets and at the same time I have heaps of wins, above all, I did what I...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/06/2009
The twists and turns this industry takes.
It's been an extremely interesting past week. I and a few of my colleagues decided to check out the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/21/2008
Adobe's CEO using FUD, but got caught out.
I often read various press releases regarding Silverlight, namely it's always curious to read what...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/10/2008
Calling all Silverlight/WPF Developers & Designers.
I've put together a proposal to shake things up in the Silverlight/WPF ecosystem. I need your help,...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/03/2008
Silverlight Toolkit Released.
We've just released the Silverlight Toolkit via Codeplex. The release will include the following...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2008
SmoothHD just ownz.
We've got IIS7 Smooth Streaming in play and Akamai have put together a demo site called SmoothHD.com...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2008
Embrace the new .NET Logo!
Our team decided a while back to bring a fresh new look to the .NET logo, given the old was in need...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/24/2008
UX lessons from game design
I just attended the Seattle Chapter of Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Tonight the topic was...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/24/2008
Project Deep Zoom JellyFish is out!
The folks in Japan, 2ndFactory have done an amazing amount of work with Deep Zoom. The project title...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/18/2008
5 Reasons I'm giving the iPhone the boot.
I'm done, I'm handing in my Apple iPhone badge and tacking back my Samsung BlackJack II. The reasons...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/16/2008
Silverlight - Light up the web.
To celebrate the Silverlight 2 launch, I've posted just a quick Silverlight application that has...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/14/2008
TechCrunch's Michael has a bad day at the office and takes it out on Microsoft.
Note: Michael Arrington has updated and made changes to the original article which removes the below...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/13/2008
Silence is Golden.
If you've watched Entourage you may chuckle. The point of this post is simply that I'm silent for a...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/09/2008
Playing with ASP.NET MVC.
I must say, ASP.NET has always been a love/hate relationship with me and it has nothing to do with...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/17/2008
You know Microsoft won an Emmy for H.264 right?
Scott Guthrie is close to being back from his vacation (which for Scott maybe a case of 20,000...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/11/2008
How to Submit a Bug/Feature Request for Silverlight.
Stephen Price sent me a piece of email asking how the heck does one submit a bug to Silverlight...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/25/2008
Do you know Silverlight has an inbuilt native RSS Reader?
Interesting, I keep asking this question a lot and the responses I get are something that un-nerves...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2008
Silverlight has a more natural support of JavaScript.
It was interesting to read this CNet.com article around Flash, HTML and AJAX. It talked about the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/11/2008
Silverlight, Deep Zoom & LOLCats.
I can haz ur LOLCats in DeepZoom Thx bai. Well, for those of you whom aren't up to speed with...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/09/2008
Please tell me this isn't the US Presidents computer..
This one came into my inbox today, I had to just laugh. I mean I know Bill Gates said he wanted to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/07/2008
Silverlight Offline Storage with LINQ.
I get asked a lot about what the .NET folks can bring to RIA, and the first thing I proudly say is...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/07/2008
Deep Zoom Guru, Lutz goes online.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Lutz in our downtown Seattle Office and he's just announced his...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/06/2008
What do you mean all Silverlight.
There are times, when I see great things around Silverlight and this one site for me always seems to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/05/2008
The sleeping giant has awoken.
July 8, VP Brad Brooks gets on stage, and says the following about Windows Vista: We know our story...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/09/2008
SEO, Nothing changed.
Gilbert (one of the original guys behind prooving Silverlight + SEO) of had a great write-up...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/03/2008
Silverlight: VisualState Manager, Storyboards and why designers should care about them both.
I've seen a lot of talk around VisualState Manager online and it mostly covers button states and so...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/30/2008
Silverlight Experiment: Create a PullDown Menu using Storyboards.
This is a basic example of how to create a "PullDown Menu" using Silverlight and...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/29/2008
Go Deeper! - The Deep Zoom Day.
Today was a fun road-trip day for me ( I don't get out as much now that I'm in corp so bare with...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/26/2008
Napoleon had it figured out.
Napoleon was supposed to have once explained to an inquirer, "There are four types of soldiers....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/24/2008
Where do I go to get the latest movements in Silverlight?
By rights you should be answering that question with sites like Silverlight.Net and if you're not...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/23/2008
Silverlight: How to Bind Controls to your own Custom Model.
I've been reading a few comments and questions floating around in the Silverlight ethos around...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/20/2008
WebDesign 2008 - Going from Wireframe Zero to UX Hero
July 21st Seattle - I'll be speaking at the WebDesign 2008 conference here in Seattle on "Going...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/19/2008
Seattle BarCamp
Seattle BarCamp is on this Sunday (15th June). I'll be attending and some others from the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/14/2008
Be a student of software, don't be a student of brands.
You can buy into what makes a brand a brand. You can choose to believe in the halo or the devil...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/12/2008
Get some Deep Zoomable Soul in your Virtual Earth Solution..
Ok, I had way to much fun with that title. SoulSolutions which is based out of my home town,...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/11/2008
The ScottGu talks about What's New.
The title just rhymes doesn't it?. We launched Beta 2 today and I'm super excited to see this...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/07/2008
Silverlight B2 - Learn once, Apply Anywhere.
Today, we announced Silverlight 2 (Beta 2). Why should you care? well today we are coming through...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/04/2008