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on November 28, 2005 in Developer Blog.
Busy today working on a video interview that I did last week with the guys at Gizmoz. You may remember them from the Talking Headz avatar application in the Extras Gallery. I was fully armed with my video camera and we spent and hour or more going over the product and recording some great demos.
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on November 25, 2005 in Developer Blog.
Burrrr it’s cold. Just as I was going to bed last night I looked out the window to see the snow falling. We didn’t get a lot, but there are a few patches where it settled.
I can’t remember the last time it snowed in November.
This week we had a new starter at Skype who is a technical documentation writer and has been hired to write and manage the API documentation, so please welcome Triona Carey to the team.
Triona has a mammoth job ahead of her, I tired working on the docs but it blew my brains trying to separate the API into Linux, Windows and Mac, and have source code in different languages. Triona has many years experience building documentation so I am sure we can figure something out between us.
My home office is being to look like a bit of a warehouse store room, and its starting to get noticed by “she that must be obeyed”. So we need to have a bit of a competition to get rid of some of this stuff.
So have think about what you want from the API documentation and post your thoughts below, I’ll pull a winner at random and send them a prize.
In the run up to Christmas I will have lots of things to give away, so make sure you check back often to see what you need to do to win!
Remember - you have to be in to win.
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on November 22, 2005 in Developer Blog.
I know its been a while, but I finally found a few moments to take a look at the Skype Day Japan recordings. Unfortunately, perched at the back of the room with nothing but a camcorder and microphone the sound quality is not what I had hoped for. I managed to tweak the sound a bit but the quality is still not great.
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on November 18, 2005 in Developer Blog.
When you want to get the weather or check a stock quote do you load up a browser, surf to a website, enter the details and then continue with what you were doing?
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on November 16, 2005 in Developer Blog.
I am please to say that Stony3323 is the winner the caption contest.
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on November 16, 2005 in Developer Blog.
As developers we love the chance to show off our coding skills, and if there is a prize to be won then we love it even more.
So how do you fancy the chance at winning $5,000, plus the chance to show your application in San Diego at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology show?
Sound interesting? Well if you are based in the US (sorry the competition is open to US residents or residents from the District of Columbia only) then eBay have launched a developer contest that may appeal.
You can get the details at http://ebay.promotionexpert.com/devchallenge2006/splash.html
If you’re stuck for ideas then they have even provided a handy link full of idea that you may want to use as the basis for your application.
How cool would it be if the winning app was Skype enabled?
Of course if you are a developer outside the US then it’s still exciting times with lots of opportunities to write Skype/eBay/PayPal enabled applications and host them in the extras gallery.
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on November 14, 2005 in Developer Blog.
The audio from Skype Day in Japan didn’t come out as well as I would have liked, so I am going to spend a bit of time touching up the audio to see if can improve it. At the moment it’s not worth listening to as there is a very annoying background buzz that drives you insane after just 20 seconds.
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on November 7, 2005 in Developer Blog.
Yesterday we held our first Skype Day in Tokyo and had around 1,400 developers attend from Asia.
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on November 2, 2005 in Developer Blog.
Yesterday I converted the C# Skype project from Skype Night to VB so you VB guys don’t feel left out. Currently its available in WMV format only but I am still planning on making these available in QuickTime format.
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on November 1, 2005 in Developer Blog.
If you have a Media Center PC then you will no doubt have installed the mcePhone plug-in from Christoph Buenger.
If not, mcePhone for Skype turns your Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 into a full communication machine allowing you to automatically pause live TV when you receive an incoming call, and make calls directly from your TV.
As the plug-in was extremely popular I caught up with Christoph a week ago to find out more about the project.
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