October 2008 Entries
For those of us developers addicted to our computers 24/7 and unlucky enough not to have made it to Microsoft PDC 2008 the mood can still be exciting as we do our best to follow the event online and on Twitter. Its really great that Microsoft is making all the sessions available online for free through Channel9 as the week goes on (yes all sessions not just the Keynotes!), this really makes it possible to “be there” when the time or money doesn't let you visit California.
If you didn’t even know that the sessions are being posted online, well...
One of the really exciting technologies coming out of PDC 2008 is Live Mesh “Developer Experience”. I plan to start posting more on this subject after I do my first public presentation on Mesh in NJ next week. For now though here is more info on my upcoming presentation and links to all the Live Mesh PDC 2008 sessions on Channel9! (Recording and PowerPoint Decks!) My Presentation – Thursday November 6th, 2008. Microsoft Office, Iselin NJ Cloud Computing! Windows Azure and Live Mesh – (Presenters: Sujit D'Mello & Dmitry Lyalin) Wikipedia defines Cloud Computing as...
Today I had one of those moments when while working I opened some random link from a Twitter post that seemed interesting. What I saw literally blew me away. The screenshot above shows a clip from a Channel9 video posted on Adam Kinneys blog, yes you’re seeing the original Quake but what's really impressive is that its running inside a browser using Silverlight 2! Wow, thats just freaking cool. So the credit here goes to Julien Frelat, a 31-year old French developer with experience in game development who ported the Quake engine to C# and...
I recently purchased a DELL 9 Mini with the maximum specs running Windows XP as my vacation/couch PC. So far I am very happy with it but as with any geek I want to find a way to push its performance higher. Memory Upgrade The most obvious upgrade to this machine is a memory upgrade and is the simplest to do. After doing some research I determined that the following memory module (ordered from Crucial) should do the trick: 2GB, 200-pin SODIMM, DDR2 PC2-5300 memory module (Part #CT25664AC667). I quickly ordered the memory for...
As I begin to speak more at various upcoming events I have decided to put together a public calendar that people can examine if they are interested in attending my sessions. Here is the Web and RSS versions for your consideration:
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Really great video, just watch it.
As posted by ScottGu , Phil Haack and of course Scott Hanselman it is our proud pleasure to announcements that MVC project has reached the milestone of Beta! This release also includes a go-live licenses that should finally help people get over an excuses that might have kept MVC out of production. If you know exactly what ASP.NET MVC is then click on the link below and go straight to the download page: Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta MVC? Huh? If you really don’t know what I am talking about then be sure to check out the...
I want to thank everyone who attended my presentation today at the NYC .NET User group on Silverlight 2. It was really great to see such a large crowd and so many familiar faces. Above is a link to my presentation including all notes and links. I plan to post the source code for the demos as well at a later time, simply no time to do so today.
I am excited to finally be able to say that Silverlight 2 has been Released to Web! (RTW). I don’t need to talk about this in detail as a lot of great post are coming online from some key folks, check them out here: Scott Gu: Silverlight 2 Released Tim Heuer: Silverlight 2 Released: New controls, tools, announcements! Jesse Liberty: Silverlight 2 Release Guide Also: If you’re a Mac developer for Silvelight check out Peter Laudati’s post that talks about it:...
My online buddy Greg was flying a small plane in his home state of Oregon and saw some interesting “presidential” crop circles. Pretty funny I must admit. This is now a front-page iReport on CNN. Go and check out the video!: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-113628 and his related blog post.
Today while installing Enterprise Library 4.0 on my Windows 2008 “desktop” machine I received the following error towards the end of the installation: “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation” After clicking OK to acknowledge this error the prompt closes and the installation completes successfully. I quickly looked to see what had happened and it seems everything installs except for the Source and Samples. I then tried to run the Enterprise Library 4.0 - May 2008 - Source Code.msi file again (this is what fails and can be found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Enterprise...
As a lot of you probably already know PDC 2008 is coming soon and will bring with it a ton of exciting announcements. Some of these announcements though will be made available before the event, so here are a few of them in case you missed it! The next version of Windows codenamed Windows 7 finally gets an official name, Windows 7! http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/10/13/introducing-windows-7.aspx Its official, Silverlight 2.0 is going Release To Web (production) tomorrow, Thanks Jesse! http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/10/13/silverlight-2-releases-tomorrow.aspx Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0...
This gave me a good laugh, enjoy, Source: http://www.basicinstructions.net/2008/10/how-to-advertise-windows-vista.html
It seems the MSDN Forum now has a new home at this fancy “social” address: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/categories/ Enhancements The changes do look impressive and includes such enhancements as: Questions answered / Questions open counter for each forum Top “Answerers” in the MVP and Microsoft Employee category Generally nicer looking forum post listing In question filters for specific replies that either have code or were posted by a specific user Migration in Progress The migration...
Carl and Richard just interviewed my buddy John Skeet on .NET Rocks! I am very excited that John is finally getting a voice as he had a lot to say. I hope you check out the show Jon Skeet on C# 3.0 and if you like it show your support to bring him back to talk on more topics like C#! Show Description Carl and Richard talk to author and developer Jon Skeet about his work with C# and Java at Google and elsewhere. Jon Skeet is a C# and Java...
I can only say WOW after reading this engadget story about the roaming webcam robot from WowWee. This robot can: Stream wireless video and audio over your Wifi using its built-in 640x480 webcam encoded using MPEG4 format Be remote controlled using various Internet capable devices such as your PC, mobile phone or game console Broadcast your voice using the built-in speaker for full two-day interaction Be pre-programmed to “patrol” a home using a designated path (Avoid obstacles using built-in sensors) Check...
On Sept 26th the Virtual Earth Platform Team Blog made an exciting announcement that I only discovered today, the release of Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Service SDK 1.0. This new SOAP-based Virtual Earth Web Services provides access to the Virtual Earth platform with a completely developer-defined user interface! The platform supports: Mobile-optimized static map images Direct map tile access One-box search Reverse geocoding Routing This is very exciting as it truly enables developers to create custom solutions on...
Admit it, you don’t use Live.com as your search engine, instead you “Google”. I tend to be a very honest person and admit I didn’t use it much either until fairly recently. I never avoided any search engine because I was a Google fanatic but I simply wanted what everyone else did, the best results. When I did try Live.com again I noticed something fairly interesting, the results improved, a lot! I now find almost no difference between the search results of Live.com VS. Google.com. Background Images = Some amazing shots Another big change that...
During my time at Web 2.0 conference someone had brought up the lack of a Microsoft store for its products. I had the same thought a while ago but was corrected by one of my colleagues that we in fact do have a store that is just poorly advertised. http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/ Unfortunately I totally forgot the URL and actually had a real hard time trying to find this link until today. I found it thanks to a Microsoft blog that talks mostly about our free software offerings but also mentions the store. Free Software...