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Architect Evangelist, Microsoft

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Jon Box joined Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist with 20+ years in software development in 2006. He has worked in a variety of environments and languages that include COBOL, Assembler, Clipper, C, C++ (Borland, ATL, MFC, Win32, COM/DCOM), VB5/VB6, and .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Jon was the Microsoft Regional Director for Memphis and a Microsoft MVP (Solution Architect). He also spent the previous six years employed at Microsoft partners doing training, course development, writing, presenting, consulting, and management. Jon co-founded the Memphis .NET Users Group, presented at past DevDays and TechEd, gave MSDN webcasts, and spoke at other Microsoft and INETA sponsored events. In addition to several whitepapers on MSDN on .NET and mobility, Jon co-authored Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework back in 2004. He also served as the Mobility Editor for the ".NET Developers Journal". Now, Jon lives to help architects leverage the Microsoft platform to build game-changing system innovation.

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Jon Box posted a blog entry Aug 5, 2011

Kinect and Windows Phone (Mango) Experiment

Here’s the video and source code to a project that connects Kinect and WP7 Mango device, via NodeJS. Made by an intern. more »

Jon Box posted a blog entry Aug 4, 2011

HTML5 Developer Contest: Cash Awaits

What an interesting contest! Can you build a Responsive Design HTML5 page that exists in 10K zipped or less? Be sure to check out the info from the MIX Online team here and from the contest site here. This is conjunction with the folks who put on an earlier 10K contest (crazy cool entries) – and... more »

Jon Box posted a blog entry Jun 16, 2011

VS 2010 Adds Support for HTML5 and CSS3

  Check out the Visual Studio Web Standards Update which brings a ton of HTML5 & CSS3 support to Visual Studio 2010 SP1.   VS Web Standards Update is a free extension available for anyone who is using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and it provides HTML5 & CSS3 support based on... more »

Jon Box posted a blog entry Jun 15, 2011

Microsoft’s internal IT Department Shares Lessons of IE9 Rollout to More Than 100,000 Computers

 
Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) worked closely with the Internet Explorer product team to test and deploy Windows® Internet Explorer® 9 across the enterprise. This content discusses the testing and deployment strategy that delivered Windows® Internet Explorer®... more »

Jon Box posted a blog entry Jun 7, 2011

SharePoint Event in Memphis, June 23, RSVP Required

Learn How SharePoint can Increase Worker Productivity and  Get a Sneak Peak on System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Ascendum, one of the fastest growing global information technology companies, is now geared up to solve business problems for organizations throughout the Memphis metro... more »

Jon Box posted a blog entry Jun 7, 2011

Windows 8, What We Know Today

Well, it’s an exciting time to work at Microsoft, with so many cool things unfolding before us. As you could imagine, there are lots of questions around the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8”. I look forward to the next disclosure at the BUILD conference in September... more »

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