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Windows Live Suite Home Page

Thu, 2007-12-13 14:23 — jfnadeau

Try it now at http://home.live.com!

  • Principal back-end developer behind the brand-new - http://home.live.com – home page which provides a unified view over all Windows Live services for millions of users.
  • Successfully devised and implemented from scratch a portal-like architecture where performance, extensibility, security, accessibility and long-term maintenance were core requirements.
  • Collaborated with multiple teams across Windows Live (Hotmail, Spaces, MSN Weather, etc.) to seek and refine web services API suitable for integration within the home page.
  • Technologies used: C#, Advanced ASP.NET (Asynchronous Page – Server-side web service calls – Custom dynamic controls – Internationalization – Cluster scalability), OO-style JavaScript, AJAX, REST web services, JSON, XML, RSS, DHTML, DOM, HTML, CSS

Windows Live Suite Home Page Screenshot