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Secret Microsoft Communications
HTML 5: Alice Pang, Queen of HTML 5 shows you how to cheat at HTML 5?!
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Alice Pang is trying to make a name for herself in the world of blogging, which is a sad thing for me as she does a better job than me at blogging. And today she presents some useful Cheatsheets on HTML 5. Now normally Alice is honest as the...
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How to become a technical evangelist
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This is an important job for many companies and Alice has written a great blog on how to become one, make sure see it at: Becoming a technical evangelist That is how Alice Pang became a technical evangelist. My road was completely different, as...
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Great Expression Design: A Simple Compass Control
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Christine L_ really knocked it out of the park with their “a Simple Compass Control”. http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/compass This is a great add to any boring user interface, it actually does something and adds an interesting item for the...
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5 top things that work together: Kinect, Windows Phone 7, Expression Design, Expression Blend and Visual Studio
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Hey Clint Eastwood said Detroit is showing us how it can be done on that Bowl Game last Sunday, we all can work together. How about the way design tools are working together. So if you want to design for Windows Phone 7, but you also want to design...
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Simply Dragging in WPF, WP7 Silverlight and Silverlight 5
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Gee, I just want to drag an ellipse in WPF or Silverlight 5 and all of the blogs/technical articles did a great job if you want to drag and drop things that were data, etc. But what about just dragging a simple ellipse or image. If I use Expression...
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Speech Recognition using Visual Studio: Determining the BNA
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My original title was Stochastic Determination of BNA, but seriously who would read that. Also, I was giving some thought to one of my managers (it takes many people to manage me) who is going through an eye operation, and it gave me an idea...
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CPSLO: Saturday info
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Programming Office 2010 using Visual Studio (not VBA): Burn before reading
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See the previous blog: Office 2010: C#, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Burn before reading Back in the day (1972) when I was a bureaucrat in uniform (Air Force dude), we had this printer that would print real fast, but occasionally caught on fire...
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Check out this student’s Windows Phone App
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Vincent Swayne, a student at Cal State Dominguez Hills told me about his Winter Puzzle app, and I know there are other student apps out there from SoCal. Like Vincent I would like to post the deep links for all of the students I have worked with...
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Office 2010: C#, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Burn before reading
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This is a follow on to the post at: Office 2010: C# and Office! Secret stuff. Strictly burn before reading Deploying Your Solutions: Deploying Office Solutions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386179.aspx Preparing Computers...
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Office 2010: C# and Office! Secret stuff. Strictly burn before reading
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This information is strictly code level: Burn before reading (for translators the previous phrase was a joke, or perhaps this whole blog is a joke, you decide) Is there anything cooler than programming for Office 2010, no one is doing it, but it could...
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Academic pricing for Office, $99.95: As a CS Student why should you buy MS Office?
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Since my numbers are pretty good this month, I thought that I would write about something that is less interesting to most of my readers, but something that you can use to make money off of. CS students often rely on OpenOffice, etc. for their word processing...
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Imagine Grant announced! Good work LifeLens!
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Check out these Grant announcements, good job LifeLens! The Imagine Cup Blog The Citizenship Blog The Microsoft Blog (this entry might not be active till 1/28/2012) The Imagine Cup Press room Good work LifeLens! Bill Gates has been passionate about...
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Top 10 sharks using Expression Design, Free Blend & XAML
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In a previous blog I discussed using free for commercial and non-commercial use Office ClipArt, in my example I used a shark that I converted to a XAML usercontrol. In this example my goal is to show you how to present 10 sharks on your Expression...
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Lambda, Lambdee, Lambduh: Methodically Anonymous
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In the past blog: http://bit.ly/csharpdelegatessimply Now let’s get methodically anonymous, see, methods and anonymous, I really crack me up. In our previous Lambda, Lambdee, Lambduh blog, I may have used code that I read from someone else's blog but...
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Lamda, Lamdee, Lamduh: Delegate first and then do the Lambda
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So you take your Java classes, you take your C++ classes and you take that data class, then you take that Operating System class that is cranking hard. Now you are having fun with a great job and some boson shows the boss that it is much more efficient...
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Building software for a ship: Explanation for the Costa Concordia blogs
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Some questions have come up about the my several blogs using the Costa Concordia disaster as a theme. Is this what the blogs on MSDN are all about and how do they apply to the nature of technical blogging. Hopefully the rest of this blog will...
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Expression Blend: I made a copy of a UserControl and now it throws an error
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Don’t you hate it when you are going to do a simple thing like copy a UserControl and then it doesn’t work? Seriously, how can you steal other peoples work if you have to redo all of their code. Well first of all, make sure you tell others about...
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Free ly: Gaming the system: Moving an object on the screen
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We all know that guy who is always gaming the system, it’s so irritating, you don’t quite know how he does it, and his career kind of sucks, but somehow he figures it out. Of course in software there are a lot of people who game the system...
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Valentines? Cute Silverlight project download and make a comment
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19 days ago
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Christine has made a very cute little app, a true joy considering the way that most of the Lords of Complexity like to complicate things. Check it out, download it and enjoy it at: http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/dancingHeart?SRC=Home Good job...
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Check out this plug-in for Expression Encoder
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Check out this free plug-in for Expression Encoder, it saves a number of steps by quickly uploading your video to YouTube. Now how about one that does this to the skydrive video? http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/publishyoutube?SRC=Home Freaking...
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Free software with registration! WHY?
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You download Windows Phone Express or whatever stupid name it attached with the Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone, and after a period of some days you get this message, or similar: Why the F… does Microsoft make me register the software I am using...
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Free: Links to APIs and information about SkyDrive
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21 days ago
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Doing some research on how to build an app that uses Skydrive, think leaderboard for games, and the search for useful items turned up a bunch of flotsam (which is different than jetsam by the way). So here are some of the links I think might...
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USC: Totally cool index of How-To for Windows Phone 7
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Not being terribly creative today, out at USC I discovered that there was a complete how-to cheatsheet at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg278408(v=vs.92).aspx Which for the most part is shown below, of course you should go to the link above...
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Costa Concordia: Software Quality Engineer Certification
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So the Bridge Crew may have made an error, we don’t know yet. Do we know if the software on the Costa Concordia wasn’t at fault and can you build a career around doing software quality control? If you are detailed oriented, then read on, if not...
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