Archives / 2009 / September

  • Zune.net Now Using Silverlight 3.0

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009

    One criticism we get as a company is that on the day Silverlight 1.0 was launched we didn’t do a massive refactoring of all Microsoft media-based or media-containing sites to use Silverlight.  Since dry humor doesn’t often translate via blog I’m poking some fun at our critics with that statement.  Any technology transition takes time, even one we believe strongly in like Silverlight.  Given skill sets, market requirements and different time-frames it was never that surprising that the previous Zune.net still used Flash.  It just made sense at the time.

    Today is a different story though, today we can count one more site as having come into the Silverlight fold, Zune.net. (This is just an excerpt, click the title for the full post)

  • Things I Heart About the Zune 4.0 Software

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009
    The next generation of Zune is here and as someone that has been fortunate enough to play with both the new software and a ZuneHD I wanted to share some of my favorite things in the new software.  More details on the ZuneHD itself to come, as while I wrote this post the software features kept piling up so I’ll save the hardware focused one for tomorrow. Quickplay This is the new landing page when you first open the software and you’re instantly given a rich, media-centric view that shows new items, your most recently listened to items as well
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  • Huh, Where Am I? (Redirecting enginefour to shawnoster)

    Thursday, September 10, 2009

    If you were expecting enginefour.com and are now on shawnoster.com don’t worry, it’s all part of my mad plan.  Mad as in these little things really shouldn’t take as long as they do sometimes.

    I’m redirecting all my old enginefour.com blog traffic over to shawnoster.com (which is where you should now be).  This is also a sneaky way to make sure all my old slugs (the bit after the domain name that uniquely identifies each post) have a corresponding one on my new site.

    I created a “Hey I’m moving” post over there that will now redirect to *this* post here if all the regex’s line up :)  Back to our regularly scheduled broadcast.