The Media Center Sandbox

I'm pleased to announce the addition of Steven Harding to our Community Dev Expert team joining Niall and Andrew.

Steven is the author of Yougle, MoreWithMyMusic and EMUCenter for Windows Media Center in Windows Vista and several other experiences built for prior versions of Windows Media Center. He also has created a poker game timer which tells you the current blinds, the current ante and how long until they next go up -- all with text-to-speech announcements of blind increases and warnings when they are getting near.

In addition, he is a contributor to the The Digital Lifestyle Developer Blog (part of the excellent group of resources made available by Ian Dixon over at http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/).

Steven has contributed over 400 posts to our developer forums over at http://discuss.mediacentersandbox.com making him one of the most prolific and helpful individuals in the community. His passion for Windows Media Center and the platform shine through in his postings and advocacy on behalf of other developers.

You can identify Steven in the forums by his rather esoteric alias of IgnoranceIsBliss in the forums (perhaps he'll comment here on how he decided on that moniker) as well as a new banner in his postings that looks like this:

Congratulations, Steven -- certainly well deserved.

Congratulations Steven. Well deserved!!!

Just your tutorial on the digital lifestyle blog is enough to deserve it, let alone the rest of your work!

I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member... 8)

But seriously - congratulations!  - and very well deserved!...

I'd better start posting some more to catch up!

cheers

Niall

Congratulations Steven - although I'm not sure exactly how three people make a circle - perhaps more a triangle?

Cheers,
Andrew

Eh, geometry was never my strong suit - and I was counting Charlie, who may not wear the badge, but certainly rates as one.

Even then, we've got ourselves a sqare...

"Even then, we've got ourselves a square..."

In more ways than one. :-)

I've thought about that and arrived at this: The community volunteers (especially folks like our Community Dev Experts) make this place special -- not Microsoft employees. I'm happy for them to get the recognition they deserve, and have 'Softies just remain a regular part of the community. I'd also be willing to say that our Community Dev Experts know more about our platform than most of the Microsoft folks (including me) -- very much so from a 'real world usage' perspective.

Just my two cents...