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Jon Box
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. |
| birthday | August 20th |
| hometown | Memphis, TN |
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Jon Box posted a blog entry 2 days ago
Microsoft Tribute to Michael Jackson
To go along with the recent Silverlight applications from the CMA Music Fest (Be This Close and PhotoBooth), check out this new DeepZoom experience of Michael Jackson. As you zoom into the center picture of Michael, you’ll find out that there are hundreds of pictures that are basically the pixels of the larger picture. The (middle) image on this page is your entry point to hundreds of ph... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Jun 29, 2009
Bing your App! (even with Ruby)
Ran across an interesting article today. Titled LearnHub: Powered by Rails, Searches with Bing, this is about a Canadian social learning network site for preparing students for standardized testing (called LearnHub). It talks about their struggles with Google’s search API, and how they took their Ruby-on-Rails based content system and converted to Bing. They even show you how to use the Bing A... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Jun 20, 2009
CMA, Silverlight, Live Translation
As some of you know, I and my teammates have been working on activities at the CMA Music Fest. We had a great time, as you can tell on my Facebook pages. Since it’s Microsoft’s end of year, we are now busily documenting the successes of the year including Music Fest. Today, I found that Santiago Leguiza wrote a blog post in Spanish about CMA’s Be This Close, a cool game developed on Silver... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Jun 4, 2009
Microsoft releases Search Engine Optimization Toolkit
The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform d... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry May 20, 2009
Ramp Up: Program of Free Classes
Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills. It's free! Starters for PHP... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry May 14, 2009
SuperPreview changes the way to test rendering on multiple browsers
If you haven’t seen this technology, check out the MIX Day 1 Keynote video. Very cool stuff. Now, you can download a trial edition of Expression to try this out. Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer is a stand-alone visual debugging tool that makes it faster and easier to migrate your sites from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 7 or 8. With Expression Web SuperPreview for I... more »