New Website launched

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The old site had to go!

New content is coming soon.

Thanks to Peter Jordan for the new marque.

MIX 11

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There are some great sessions available online from the MIX 11 conference this year.

'An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love' was particularly good and quite funny too.

Fragile to Agile

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Neil is happily refactoring an existing code base in order to get a legacy system into a test harness.

Why bother? as Roy Osherove says: "Testing, done right, can mean the difference between a failed project and a successful one. Between a code base and code base no one dares touch, and between getting home at 2am or getting home in time for dinner."

Solid code, world peace and home in time for tea: three things to strive for.

Emma is digging deep into Silverlight

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Silverlight is really taking off - particularly for online media streaming.

ITV now deliver programs via Silverlight. Their reasons for the change? "Unaffected by other applications, improving performance, smoother video streaming delivery and increased quality."

With version 5 soon to be out of beta there are many new features to learn.

Richard is...

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exploring the Microsoft Media Platform

"Built on the powerful foundations of Windows Server, IIS, Expression Encoder, Silverlight, and PlayReady, the Microsoft Media Platform provides functions for every stage of digital media processes and can be easily integrated into existing workflows and third-party services."