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SLAR v2 is out!
Volume 2 of the book that Brad affectionately calls the "SLAR" has been published ! He stopped by my office with a copy last week (since I contributed some annotations to it). It looks like a great book! Congratulations, Brad! Read More...
Posted 06 September 05 08:46 by Adam Nathan | 1 Comments   
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Could YOU be the next Microsoft Idol?
Every year that I've been at Microsoft (except last year!) we've had a huge company meeting in Safeco Field that is unlike anything else I've ever experienced. This year there's a new item on the agenda. From the company meeting website: "Do you have Read More...
Posted 06 September 05 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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The transformation of Jim Miller
Jim Miller, one of the CLR's brilliant architects, has been known to go months being clean shaven and go months being the exact opposite of clean shaven. He just switched modes again, and nobody at work recognizes him. He claims he did this because needed Read More...
Posted 02 September 05 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 16 Comments   
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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 | 3 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 | 5 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 | 2 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 | 6 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 | 10 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 | 11 Comments   
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Goodbye Longhorn, Hello Windows Vista!
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx Longhorn = Windows Vista With product names, my feeling is that anything new takes awhile to get used to, especially after using a codename for several years. It's hard to imagine a creative Read More...
Posted 22 July 05 06:18 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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Mind-bending "two-way viewing-angle LCD"
Check this out: www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/07/14/sharp_develops_two_way_viewing_lcd The fact that it costs twice as much as a standard display is unfortunate, but I've heard two interesting ideas for future applications. Imagine Read More...
Posted 15 July 05 09:48 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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PDC talk descriptions & the game of Hearts
Today Raymond talks about marketing tweaking PDC talk descriptions and some little-known history on Microsoft Hearts , both of which made me smile since I'm going to be doing a PDC talk primarily based on my Internet Hearts project . Of course, Internet Read More...
Posted 14 July 05 10:04 by Adam Nathan | 1 Comments   
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I (heart) ATL
I just got back from a vacation to the east coast, and in one restaurant bathroom I saw an interesting piece of graffiti: I (heart) ATL Actually, that wasn't the only interesting insight written on that stall wall. There also was: Continental breakfast Read More...
Posted 12 July 05 10:19 by Adam Nathan | 9 Comments   
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