Jas Sandhu

another good report on the DII workshop in Brussels, this time in English from Maarten Balliauw a great developer who woks on PHPExcel - Jas Sandhu

Julien just blogged about our cool new FireFox plugin that lets you render any Office doc without having to have anything but the plugin installed. Too bad everybody can't read French :( ... the press pass will be out soon - Jas Sandhu

Good post by my boss Jean Paoli on what our team is doing with Open Source Interop Projects here at Microsoft - Jas Sandhu

Anand posts a great article describing Microsoft's latest offering for early stage startups ... BizSpark! - Jas Sandhu

Cool technology for multitouch video wall that was used in the elections on CNN, ABC etc and first shown at TED - Jas Sandhu

Check out this really cool new Live Labs offering that allows you to pick up stuff from all over the web and collect it in this easy to reference spot. don't forget to install the accelerator. Really good for research! - Jas Sandhu

Photosynth mashes up with Live Maps! It allows you to navigate around the map and see a pushpin for each Photosynth in the area. You can then click the ‘launch Photosynth viewer’ link for any Photosynth to dive in and experience it. It’s a fun way to find Synths in a particular area. Try it out; this link will put you in ‘explore’ mode near seattle center. Or try Cairo at the Sphinx. Vatican city. Leaning tower of Pisa - Jas Sandhu

Check out what a buddy of mine created ... yes multimon heaven. I will have to stop by and pay him a visit and check out the eye candy he runs on that mutha :) - Jas Sandhu

Official site for all things Azure will crosslinks to either techie or businessy content - Jas Sandhu

very cool showcase on adaptive streaming in full screen HD, powered by Akamai, IIS7 and Silverlight - Jas Sandhu

Interesting site run by some MVPs and other community leaders. They're not at PDC but they are sharing their knowledge with a good roster of topics - Jas Sandhu

don't know if you knew, Peter Galli is now part of Microsoft and he has a great note about Interoperability which is a focus of mine - Jas Sandhu

the Samba folks were in the lab recently and this cool announce is part of the recent interop plugfest between the Microsofties and the Samba AD team - Jas Sandhu

A note from the Samba folks around participation in the interoperability plugfests in Redmond WA and Santa Clara CA - Jas Sandhu

now you can start testing associating you Windows Live ID as an OpenID, finaly a change to unify your identities and have single sign on ... cool - Jas Sandhu

MJF waxes on Azure - Jas Sandhu

I was at the DII workshop run by Doug Mahugh and other colleagues at Office. We had a very good set of standards, folks and vendors who were implementing OOXML solutions within their apps. The workshop recap can be found on Doug's blog above. It was good to meet everyone there. - Jas Sandhu

more info reqarding AMQP, Microsoft has jsut decided to join and support the working group - Jas Sandhu

Check ou the MIX online sites, it's all about emerging web trends, cool feature is oomph a microformats based. They'll be providing freely downloadable, open source, and immediately useable prototypes. You are encouraged to use these prototypes for your own projects, but to also submit code to the prototype project on CodePlex.com to share with the community. You can also register for the MIX conference at www.visitmix.com/2009. - Jas Sandhu

Thomas Lewis aka The Spider King gives us the lowdown on the goings on at PDC08 this year ... cool read esp. if you're headed to the event - Jas Sandhu

Check out the new set of conferences offered by the US Developer and Platform Evangelism teams building on the buzz, excitement, and industry-changing announcements of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), the MSDN Developer Conference will deliver the core message, content, and experience of the PDC in a one-day, multi-track event to 12 cities across the United States in December 2008 and January 2009. - Jas Sandhu

Michelin rated restaurant that does a tasting menu that is vegeterian ... on my list to try when I'm next in Paris ... the chef Alain Passard is a legend! - Jas Sandhu

Good luck to you on your new gig Dion! - Jas Sandhu

Congratulations on the new gig Ben! - Jas Sandhu

Didn't watch the video. Does this mean you're no longer at Google? - Dare Obasanjo

Congratulations Dion, Ben :) - Jas Sandhu

Congrats on joining Mozilla. - ropiku

Here's a the official site for the Silverlight pluging in the Eclipse IDE - Jas Sandhu

awesome news from the Eclipse foundation on the Silverlight support in the IDE - Jas Sandhu

Very cool article on getting SL and Java to play nice together. - Jas Sandhu

I love what Scott Hanselman dug out when he went spelunking through Google Chrome source. Who would have though that WTL was in there which is basically open sourced (under MS Public License) of the Windows Template Library. - Jas Sandhu

he is such a Muppet...!!! - Angus Norton via Alert Thingy