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• Welcome Laurent!

  This morning I had the pleasure of waking up to some great news.  Laurent Bugnion is joining IdentityMine! Laurent will be joining as a Senior Interactive Developer and will stay based in Zurich but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him at the Seattle... Posted Aug 20 2008, 07:55 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, people

• IxDA Los Angeles – IdentityMine and REZN8

  As you may have seen yesterday IdentityMine has been working on some cool stuff around  Microsoft’s Surface technology.  As part of an effort to share some of the details behind this project, IdentityMine and REZN8 have partnered with the local... Posted Aug 14 2008, 11:00 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, surface, ixda

• Surface, BillG, Snowboards and Wine

  Back in January I posted the photo on the left declaring “Yes, I’m a Nerd”.  If you read back to that post it explains that I was spending my evening watching the Bill Gates Keynote from CES.  Now that is all true but originally it seemed I... Posted Aug 13 2008, 10:51 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• WPF Application – Entellium Rave CRM and IdentityMine

  There is a lot of buzz about RIAs and other online browser based technologies and sometimes it hard to imagine there are traditional desktop based applications being actively developed and invested in.  At IdentityMine we see a lot of powerful enterprise... Posted Jul 28 2008, 02:26 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• nerdplusart relaunch from robby ingebretsen

  Probably my favorite part of working at IdentityMine is the chance to work with truly awesome peeps who I consider not just coworkers but friends and family.  If you ever get a chance to grab a meal or just have a conversation with Robby DO IT. ... Posted Jul 21 2008, 10:07 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog, Silverlight, WPF

• Vote over on SilverlightDevCampSeattle.com

  As part of the upcoming SilverlightDevCampSeattle get together we asked for participants to submit logos.  We received four entries and the poll is currently up over on www.silverlightdevcampseattle.com. Voting ends June 11, 2008 at 11:59PM PST. Posted Jun 03 2008, 02:15 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• Expression Studio 2 – now on MSDN

  When Expression Studio 2 shipped back on May 1 the first thing I did was run over the MSDN to grab the new Blend and Web builds.  Unfortunately they didn’t immediately post to MSDN.  It looks like the builds were posted on 5/27.  In the... Posted Jun 03 2008, 01:52 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• Seesmic and Silverlight

  Loic Le Meur posted a few weeks back about Seesmic working together with Microsoft to deliver a Silverlight Mobile client.  This has a few positive impacts for our community. 1)  Seesmic and Loic are doing great, innovative things.  I haven’t... Posted May 29 2008, 11:00 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• One Big Community - crossPost from SilverlightDevCampSeattle

  Back when I kicked this off in April I was focused on setting our date then working on venues and volunteers. After a few days I had been contacted by a few folks and we started looking into location and sponsors. By that time we had a few attendees and... Posted May 28 2008, 12:00 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• What would Bogusky Do?

  (Photo from FastCompany.com) I’m excited for July for two reasons this year.  The first is that it’s my birthday month.  That’s nothing new.  The other is that Microsoft is set to launch a $300 million ad campaign created... Posted May 27 2008, 11:00 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• XAML Technical Documentation Posted

  On March 25, 2008 Microsoft published the technical specifications for Extensible Application Markup Language (Xaml).  Honestly now that it’s May I can’t really remember anyone making too big a deal about this.  A few weeks back... Posted May 16 2008, 11:00 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• Expression Studio 2 Ships

  Here is the official press release from Microsoft (link). The Suite includes Web, Blend, Design, Media and Encoder. This alleviates my gripe about having 3 versions of Blend in the market. Now we’re back to current version and V.NEXT. Perfect. What’s... Posted May 01 2008, 01:35 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• Silverlight Worldwide

  Take a look at that graph above.  Ok now wait for it….Asia is huge!  I think many times US based companies tend to ignore the rest of the world and in doing so leave out a large section of potential users, revenues etc.  Over... Posted Apr 29 2008, 11:05 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• SilverightDevCamp coming to Seattle

  Cross post from the new site I set up to organize the event: www.silverlightdevcampseattle.com Get your Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2.5 March/April/May/June installs all squared away because come June 13th you want to be ready to rock for... Posted Apr 23 2008, 12:00 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog

• That’s 2 to you - Silverlight 2

  A few weeks ago I mentioned Silverlight 2.0 and was quickly corrected about the proper usage of the  Silverlight branding.  Apparently it is not 2.0 but just 2.  It makes me wonder if we’ll just see 2, 3, 4 from here on out. ... Posted Apr 22 2008, 11:00 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM Filed under: IM, Blog