September 2007 - Posts
Every once in a while I check back in with the demo scene. I always enjoyed the cracktros on the commodore 64, and later the cool demos by Future Crew and others in DOS. This is a pretty new demo, and it is very cool, especially when you consider the
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Due to the naming conventions article I wrote some time ago, I tend to get a lot of guestbook comments on both sides of the issue. This latest comment illustrates one of the reasons I am so dead-set against Hungarian notation (or more importantly, its
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Windows ME is something Microsoft would probably rather forget. While some of its more interesting technology made it into XP (file recovery/snapshots, for example), the OS was pretty much a marketing and user disaster. At the time, most enthusiasts who
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The agenda is up for Remix 07 in Boston. Here's the information on the Silverlight session I'll be doing. For the Silverlight version, click here and go over to Tuesday. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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I wrote a small media player for my son. I wrote the original version in Silverlight, but quickly ran into a problem where no matter what I did, Silverlight wouldn't read the larger video files (encoding was fine, so I'm pretty sure this is a
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I'll be speaking at the CMAP General Meeting on Tuesday October 2, 2007. Since there will be another Silverlight introduction session covered by another developer, I will be focusing almost entirely on the Carbon Calculator and how Silverlight worked
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The Silverlight Carbon Calculator is back up and functioning. It took some doing to get it back up (not technical so much as just fitting it into their update schedule), but thanks to Steve Suing for doing all the hard work on bringing this up to the
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If you can speak at the code camp, that would be great. Otherwise, I think you'll find attending to be enjoyable and educational. The code camps always have great speakers and great attendance. From Chris Steen at CMAP : Central Maryland Association
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Are you looking to learn about Silverlight, AJAX, and WPF? If so, use this registration code to save $100 on the registration for Remix 07 in Boston : RM07EXTB Microsoft has made that code available for the speakers to share with anyone who wishes to
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This is a great control. We could have used the ability to display HTML text in the Carbon Calculator, and I've run into the limitation in other projects. If you want to display HTML rich text in your Silverlight application, and don't feel like
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I'll be speaking at this event on Saturday November 3 at the Microsoft Office in Reston, VA. Thanks to Frank LaVigne for setting this all up. Frank's Announcement Frank is looking for more speakers, sponsors etc. If you're interested, please
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What a bargain! Someone should send these folks some code to skip showing the retail price if it is lower than the current price :) The coloring is all theirs. $214 is actually a reasonable price for this item, but you wouldn't know if from their
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I'll be speaking about Silverlight and the Carbon Calculator at these events: BaltoMSDN - DuClaw in Baltimore - Wednesday, September 19 (Thanks Ed!) Detailed talk concentrating on client-side Silverlight, including the Carbon Calculator and building
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Just tonight, I was looking at rendering engines, stumbled across OGRE (Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) and thought "wouldn't it be cool if that was ported to .NET." Turns out the next search result in google was just that. Axiom
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