Flyover Country

My boss, John, posted the following a couple hours ago:
Well, we saw a lot of people at Maker Faire, but the biggest thing we did was the ducks. Sure we gave a lot of demos, but for every demo we gave we had four kids painting ducks. Here are some of the ducks that the [...]

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I just found a ton of great content on learning how to develop for Silverlight on the SL website. It includes the full contents of every Mix’07 session that centered on Silverlight along with a bunch of great how-to screencasts, including one from one of my favorite design firms, Metaliq, on their awesome video editing [...]

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One of the most compelling parts of moving to the Popfly team for me was the opportunity to develop my web design and development skills. I (just like every one of you, I presume) have been hacking around with various web technologies for the better part of a decade, but I never had the opportunity [...]

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update: i’ve received five requests
I’m going to give away invitations to Popfly to the first five people who email me or leave comments telling me what they want to do with the service.
Seriously, it’s that easy: just leave me a note saying that you want to build a mashup that does [...]

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Tom Barta, slayer of dragons, commenter with much to say, and all-around devilishly handsome chap had the following to say about me:

This one looks the most realistic. Notice the token Startup Guy and Girl Programmer hidden among a flock of token Fortune 500 Boring Guys, like a game of Where’s Waldo.
Yes, [...]

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I discovered this morning that Slashdot just found Popfly. Hilarity promptly ensued. What follows are some of my favorite quotes from the Popfly-related posting on there, which garnered about 300 comments.
Re: That’ll make you cringe from hobo sapiens
Hey, did you laugh at the pictures like I did?
One was the obligatory girl. [...]

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I and several other members of the Popfly team will be flying down to San Francisco for Maker Faire at the San Mateo Fairgrounds this Saturday and Sunday. We’ll be demoing Popfly and painting ducks at the Coding4Fun booth, so come check it out!

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For the past few months, I’ve been toiling away in secret with a small team (only about 15 people, which is tiny by Microsoft standards) on a new project that we’re finally ready to unveil. I’m very excited to introduce you to Microsoft Popfly, a fantastically innovative new web application that allows you to easily [...]

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I’m revising the look and feel of my blog. Please let me know if anything looks particularly wonky, or if something is egregiously broken.
Also, just as a followup from my tale of laptop woe the other day, I wanted to mention that I ordered a slightly-older MacBook after Apple rev’d the specs on [...]

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