January 2006 - Posts
Expression Interactive Designer (Sparkle) is now available in CTP form. For a link and a good, quick demo, see Tim Sneath's blog .
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As discussed in my recent Windows Forms / WPF session, these are some blogs I read on a fairly regular basis. There are a ton of other related blogs, but these have been the most helpful to me Manuel Clement's Space - WPF Karsten Januszewski - WPF Jensen
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Except for filling the face-nails along the edge, anyway. All that cutting made a lot of dust. I'm glad I have the saw out on the deck. The table with the saw has been blown off several times, and the bag emptied several times more. That flooring
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This is a photo of the Amby next to our bed. (click for larger version) It is basically a free-swinging padded hammock. Among others, this is recommended by Dr. Sears . It keeps the baby near by, and helps eliminate things like the flat head you sometimes
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Week 37 starts tomorrow (Wednesday). We're almost there. Just like everyone says, these last couple months have been just a lot of waiting. I don't know where that baby is scrunched up, but Melissa is half the size of a lot of pregnant women we've seen.
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The living room flooring is almost complete. The most difficult and time consuming part was routing grooves in the ends of all the boards that touch the stair nosing. I originally tried various router bits. In the end, what worked out best was to take
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This PDF from Forrester Research is a nice high-level description of the role and importance of XAML. Pass this on to your decision makers. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Microsoft has unveiled a powerful weapon that will allow it to consolidate its control of the
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Well, except for trim and for patching the nail holes in the floor, but that will be done at the same time I do it for the rest of the house. This is the first room to have the new flooring completely installed. I have to stay that I really like the look.
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The flooring I'm installing in this house is a type of man-made flooring called Bamboo Strand. The flooring is made up of lots of bamboo fibers compressed together with an adhesive to form solid planks. These planks are harder than just about any
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The siding is almost done. All that is left to do is some final fascia work on the back, some window casing on the back and the two dormers on the front. I'm very happy with how this came out. Click the thumbnails for larger versions For comparison,
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