August 2005 - Posts

GooglePark
I came across this on Channel9 and couldn't resist linking to it: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=104073 Read More...
Posted 28 August 05 07:02 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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Poorly-Named Dialog Buttons
David's comment on my last post made me think about one of my pet peeves that seems to be pretty common: Cancel buttons that don't really mean cancel. For example: Open a text file in Notepad. Do a "Replace" (Ctrl+H): After replacing some text, press Read More...
Posted 26 August 05 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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Windows Vista: It's the little things...
…that make all the difference in the world to me. I've been using Beta 1 a lot recently, and although " most of the stuff that we would expect that tech enthusiasts and consumers will be interested in will happen at Beta 2 ," every once in awhile come Read More...
Posted 25 August 05 09:38 by Adam Nathan | 18 Comments   
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Back to Internet Hearts
Scoble and Ernie Booth stopped by my office today with their camcorder so I could talk about and demo Internet Hearts -- now with the power of WPF! -- for an upcoming Channel 9 video. Look for it during the PDC timeframe. I've been so busy preparing for Read More...
Posted 24 August 05 11:57 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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Looking back at the Windows 95 Launch and wondering about the Windows Vista Launch
Raymond , Craig , and others are talking about Windows 95 today since today is its 10-year anniversary. I had just gotten a new computer a few months prior (since I was heading off to college) and I vividly remember getting Windows 95 in the mail. (Stores Read More...
Posted 24 August 05 11:42 by Adam Nathan | 1 Comments   
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From the CD Scrapheap
In the corner of my office, I've got a bunch of CDs: Rather than throwing away CDs that have outlived their usefulness, I started decorating with them. I know, it's a stretch to call a pile of CDs a "decoration," but they give a nice glow to the room Read More...
Posted 22 August 05 03:57 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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Bizarre college flashback
Every once in awhile I come across a blog post that mentions my Interop book or pinvoke.net, but this one is a first: For some reason, someone who goes by " Benzado " recently found and linked to a so-called "artificial intelligence" CS project I did Read More...
Posted 20 August 05 05:53 by Adam Nathan | 6 Comments   
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More code names disappear
In case you missed it, the official name for "Avalon" is Windows Presentation Foundation and the official name for "Indigo" is Windows Communication Foundation . Hmmm. I guess this is the answer for folks that felt the Vista name was too creative and Read More...
Posted 02 August 05 03:23 by Adam Nathan | 6 Comments   
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