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Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:38 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

I've not met Frank, but I know about his shirt.

I've not met Frank Arrigo in person, but I know about his shirt. In the latest episode of the 'Frank and His Shirt' reality show series, the hunt is on for an apparent posuer . The background to this rather potracted saga is a story unto itself, even Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:18 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps

Somasega introduces the ' Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps ' 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich the user experience 3. Enable users to visualize, organize, and search 4. Run securely 5. Design for reliability and manageability Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:58 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr

Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs. Kevin, one way of displaying Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:37 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Windows Live WiFi - beta testers wanted!

Laura John (who I used to work with while we were both at MSDN / TechNet), has blogged about something I've not heard of before...Windows Live WiFi: "We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 10:10 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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IE7 - RCs, Changes and CSS

As you probably know by now, Dean Hachamovitch announced this morning that Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is ready for download . So what is the difference between a 'Release Candidate' (RC) and a 'Beta'? Here's the short answer from Dean's Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:04 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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150 cool Windows XP downloads

150 cool Windows XP downloads . via JoshBlog Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 8:00 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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1 line in XAML

Tim Sneath asks : "What's the most impressive WPF demo you can construct in a single line of XAML? Can you improve on these?" Read More...
Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 10:00 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Meet Erik Meijer on Channel 9 (and why he keeps a penguin in a box)

Meet Erik. Erik Meijer is an Architect in Microsoft's Data Programmability team. As you can see from these pics he let me shoot in his office, Erik keeps a penguin... I first knew of Erik when he was starring as the 'Head in the Box' on VBTV . (I wish Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:41 AM by alexbarn | 6 Comments
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Instant IM Translation and other winners

The Made In Express Contest is reaching its conclusion - there are a total of 10 finalists' projects and now it is time to pick the winners...Who will win? Well, that's really up to you . My personal favorite is the Instant IM Translation . I confess Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:55 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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ADO.NET vNext - a load of links....

The ADO.NET vNext Community Technology Preview ('CTP') went live today...Hopefully I can convince Tommy Williams to write up his 'from the trenches' post once he's recovered ;-) Anyways, on to the LINQs links: Today Announcing: The ADO.NET vNext August Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:44 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Plugins and Atom for Windows Live Writer

A few more links for you... 'Hirlpoo West' points out one of the two plugins Tim Heuer has already developed for Windows Live Writer - a plugin that makes it a doddle to insert Flickr images. The other plugin Tim has developed is a Technorati tagging Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 1:59 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Good luck Niall :-(

Well, I just read Niall's post explaining that he is leaving Microsoft . Niall was recruited in April to help the Windows Live team build an RSS / Atom based syndication platform for consumption across devices. Like Scoble , I'm sorry to see Niall go. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:50 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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LINQ to Amazon

Yes, you read that right. LINQ to Amazon . "This example introduces Linq to Amazon , which allows querying Amazon for books using Linq! It uses Linq's extensibility to allow for language-integrated queries against a book catalog. The Linq query gets converted Read More...
Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 1:06 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Programming Language Trends and more

Tim O'Reilly's series of posts on book sales are giving up lots of interesting data and trends from the Nielsen Bookscan's top 3,000 Computer Books report (means: all publishers not just O'Reilly sales, but US sales only). Yesterday's post was no different Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:58 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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