May 2007 - Posts
Our team at Applied Information Sciences (my employer for the past 11 years), just completed the certification process for the add-ins they wrote for MOSS 2007. AIS had a signficant amount of development to do to make MOSS compliant. The faith Microsoft
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My wife got me interested in learing about vaccines when she was pregnant with Ben. I became interested when I saw that some of the vaccines I had when I was a child were later pulled from the market because of the number of nasty effects. I've had
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If you do any Silverlight or WPF/E work, you've likely run across a control named "AgHost" or the prefix "Ag" used in various places in the code(moreso in WPF/E). That naming looks like it is slowly going away in favor of using
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This was an interesting weekend. We had the AIS company picnic on Saturday, which was a lot of fun. I couldn't believe how many young kids (under 2) were there. My son love the ballons and whatnot. Unfortunately, he picked up a deer tick so we're
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Mark Lindell gave a great intro talk on WCF tonight at the BaltoMSDN meeting. He also has some interesting content on his blog. Check it out .
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I just won a close-to-mint condition APC ar2100blk 42u server rack on eBay. I need to pick it up in the next week or so from a person in Baltimore. I had been waiting some time now for a good black server rack with sides and doors to show up locally on
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Over the weekend, I seriously looked into what I could do to have a centralized media server in the house and a HTPC setup in the TV room. It turns out, it's a lot more difficult to get a good experience than you would think. Ideally I'd like
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This site has a pretty decent set of links to various internet radio streams. It's grouped by genre and also by state. The quality is hardly CD quality (or even regular broadcast quality), but it is very helpful for those of us who live in areas that
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Vishwas turned me on to this article , by Jesse Ezell, pointing out some of the shortcomings in Flash that are addressed by Silverlight. Unlike most blog posts out there, I found that the comments actually added a lot of good material to the discussion
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The productivity messaging hasn't changed much since last year. I argued last year that these unrealistic start->full app timelines tossed out during the keynotes really hurt our industry as they set out very unrealistic expectations. Last year
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High resolution (720p and 1080p) HD sample WMV files at Microsoft.com. These include some of the samples used to demo video encoding at the Silverlight media deep-dive session today. You can also find lower resolution but amusing public domain videos
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The MIX07 photos are up here .
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When I attended MIX last year, it was all about WPF, with only one real session talking about a future technology called WPF/E. At the time, I was focused primarily on WPF and viewed WPF/E as something that was interesting, but too limited to be very
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