March 2006 - Posts
You have to love reporters. Or perhaps I just need to be more clear with them. On the way out of the WPF/E session at MIX06 in Las Vegas last week, I was approached by a reporter, presumably because I had asked several questions of the presenter. She
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Ok, not really Vista or .NET, but could be. Here are a couple links to the Origami Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPC) Overview from some folks: http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5019.html Samsung UMPC: http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/09/samsungs-q1-ultramobile-pc/ Teaser
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The demo and whitepaper have been updated for the February CTP of WinFX. You can get to it here .
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Just a quick thanks to Robert Ingrebretsen and Filipe Fortes from Microsoft for spending some time during the MIX chat with me. Among other things, they helped alleviate my concerns (somewhat) regarding WPF and WPF/E diverging from each other, causing
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One other session I attended on the last day of MIX06 was the sparsely-attended 8:30 AM RSS Platform Presentation. One of the folks from team RSS was there presenting about the new RSS functionality in IE7 as well as the new RSS API which will ship with
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Every conference seems to have a sleeper hit - something which was underplayed and ended up drawing huge crowds, or as in this case, something which was added at the last minute and which didn't appear on the schedules, but still filled a whole ballroom.
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I've overheard conversations at MIX06, as well as at other gatherings such as the PDC. I've also helped answer questions on several difrerent mailing lists. A common theme I've heard is that IT folks are trying to work around browser limitations in order
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At MIX06 we were given a bootable DVD with the latest Vista bits. Since dual-boot is not an option right now, I thought I'd try it out in a VPC. I knew the performance would be poor as the VPC has no accelerated graphics, and does take a CPU hit. I also
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Amazing! In just the couple days I've been in Las Vegas, my five week old son hit a growth spurt that had him, in two days, outgrow his diapers and many of his 0-3 month clothes. It's incredible how their bodies can work like that. I mean, I have almost
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(blogged to random Astral Projection tracks with a little Peter Gabriel UP thrown in) In Praise of Smart Clients Microsoft has three primary Smart Client targets: Rich WinFX applications running on PCs (desktops, laptops, media centers) Microsoft Office
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Day 1 started with Bill's Keynote and ended with a short trip to TAO (a little too claustraphobic for me), and some time at the slots. Here are the highlights from today: XAML Flow Documents One of the less-touted but still very interesting bits of WPF
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I'm here at Internet Alley in the hallway of the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. First, let me say that I have never been a hotel complex this big. Not only are the rooms huge (mine is 1200 square feet and has two televisions and a marble bathroom) but so
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I finished the bookcase for Ben's room this week. Painting and sanding took a while, as it has been pretty cold here, and I had to paint outdoors, so I was at the mercy of whatever 50 degree day I could get for a couple hours. The low temperatures
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This image shows how I retouched a photo of Ben on my lap before sending it to Kodak for printing. I was experimenting with the soft focus and some other features in Paint Shop Pro. I have used them to clean up images of trains and whanot before, but
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So, what have I been doing with my model railroad layout , and my cnc work ? The renovation work at the house here has turned both my railroad/cnc workshop and the layout room into temporary storage. I hope to get back into that work sometime soon, but
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I'll be at MIX 06 next week. I intend to immerse myself as much as possible in WPF at that time, so look here for info on the WPF sessions.
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The March CTPs of Sparkle (Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer) and Acrylic (Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer) are now available. Both are compatible with the February CTP of WPF.
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Well-meaning grandparents and even same-generation friends and co-workers often give very poor child rearing advice. While we are still very new at this, we generally try to follow solid atachment parenting guidelines, including breastfeeding, co-sleeping,
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