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Secret Microsoft Communications
Free game to learn how to use Office and compete with your friends
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An interesting idea from one of the Microsoft Research Partners is Ribbon Hero 2. Clippy comes back and travels through time, which is fun and Clippy isn’t so annoying. This will help you become more productive, and Ribbon Hero 2 is the way...
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5 more ideas on how to make money off of Azure
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[The following material is from http://blogs.msdn.com/ devschool , if you are viewing this from another site, please switch to the original.] Create an intermediate verifier system for large code based systems. You could use some of the ideas from...
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“Get the machine that goes ping” or how to fix the “Please enableGPUAcceleration = true on your Silverlight plugin page.”
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What in the heck do you do to fix the “enableGPUAcceleration=true on your Silverlight plugin page.” Then you go to the ASPX or the HTML page and you see that both have the line: <param name="enableGPUAcceleration" value="true" />...
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How to Make money with Azure when the Lords of Complexity take over
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Let’s say you are a manager and you are trying to figure out how to use Azure to make money. As a manager you know that the tools Microsoft makes are good, Visual Studio is so slick it works with things like Team Foundation Server and Services,...
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Free stuff at Alice Pang’s blog? Has Alice fallen to my level of blogging?
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Sometimes you get old and realize that you influence others, and one’s influence isn’t always the greatest. Alice Pang who is one of the young and brightest in our team, along with Kenny Spade may have picked up on that bad habit of mine in using...
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Silverlight is dead, long live Silverlight 5: TrickPlay or Double your speed
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If you have watched any of my videos, then being able to speed them up is a great idea, now if there was only a way to get rid of the ummmmmmmmms. How do you do that? Silverlight.NET Normally you would go to http://silverlight.net and expect to type in...
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Camels, XAML and Silverlight is dead? Long live Silverlight 5!
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Silverlight is dead, but Scott Guthrie on Dec. 2, 2010, not too long ago, stated the following and about the future of Silverlight: ”… [W}e do live in a very connected world now, and there are a lot of devices out there, and users demand...
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Virtualization is virtually important for your developer virtual skills, really
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Ok, why should you know about virtualization as a developer? Especially if you are a game developer? Well you could get laid off, no, the job you are working on will eventually end, you will get tired of it or the company just gets tired of...
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Valentine on the cheap: Use Publisher to print out a valentine’s card
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Let’s face it, buying a real Hallmark card can be painful: Drive to the Hallmark store Smell the weird smells in those stores (what is that?) Pick out a card Pay HOW MUCH FOR THE CARD!:???!!! Drive from the Hallmark Store Lot easier way to do Valentine...
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5 Ways To Make Money with the Cloud!
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Number 1 with a bullet! Read Bruno Terkaly excellent article about how the Microsoft Azure Cloud works with mobile platforms and not just the Windows Phone 7. Bruno is no Microsoft Fanboy and you should definitely read his blog, I do. But it doesn’t...
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Live Writer: How to create automatic links in your blog
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This has nothing to do with my normal blogs, but this is something my teammates didn’t know about. Here is the email I sent out. As Colleagues! Sometimes it is nice to be able to simply enter a person’s name and an link to their overall...
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Colliding with Expression Design to Expression Blend to WP7 and Kinect Part 1 of 3 or so
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This is a three part series, maybe a little longer, who knows. I would if I did any planning. For my blog. I do plan when I code big projects, but with my blog I like to just goof around and have fun. So what if you ran into Gisele...
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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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