May, 2007

I'd seen prototypes of this technology , but the demos are just awesome: And if you look carefully, you can see a Zune in the title screen and at 2:04...wonder what that could mean? Here's part of PM's take: The product behind the Milan project is called...

These look pretty cool: Let the music flow—from your stereo Bluetooth enabled mobile phone—and never miss a call with the Plantronics Pulsar 260 headset. As you jam to your favorite tracks, you’ll never be out of touch. Catch all your incoming calls with...

There's some partner training coming up that you may want to be aware of if you're interested in learning more about the new Microsoft Expression Blend product for creating rich Windows applications using Windows Presentation Foundation. The training...

Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism division and the Mobile and Embedded Division (MED) will be running a series of Mobility Touchdown workshops in over 12 cities in the United States and would like to invite you to attend. This workshop is open...

The next code camp in Raleigh, NC is coming up next month: The Second CodeCampRDU, a free .NET community sponsored event, will be held on Saturday June 23 rd , 2007! Our previous event was a huge success with attendees including 4 tracks of .Net content...

Charlie Owen shows how . via Sean Alexander

Robert Scoble : When I first saw this demoed a few months ago the Microsoftie who showed it to me literally built TwitterVision in two minutes right in front of me without writing code. TwitterVision’s inventor told me he took four hours to do the...

Welcome to the Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group! http://www.phillysharepoint.org . The next meeting of the Philadelphia Area Sharepoint User Group will be on May 30th at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA District office...

Here's an announcement from Dean Fiala, who's one of the driving forces behind a new .NET user group in Rockville, MD... RockNUG . I'll be presenting on WPF at the first meeting, which will be on June 13th at the Rockville campus of Montgomery College...

The ASP.NET Team has released the May Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the ASP.NET Futures, which includes ASP.NET Silverlight integration, browser history management, expanded dynamic language support, and more. Here's some info from Simon Calvert...

FYI, the RVSSUG meeting I posted about earlier in the week has been canceled, due to the speaker's flight being canceled due to weather. They will have a local speaker in June, so check their web site for details.

Think that you missed it all because you didn't make it to MIX 07? Think again...the http://www.visitmix.com/ web site has tons of videos, as well as downloadable session materials, including recorded presentations in Silverlight (as well as in both iPod...

Okay okay... so for all those Windows users with Mac jealousy, now you can have the fancy icon bar with animations too. Check out Rocket Dock. It's free, and it works well. So begins a post by my colleague Peter Laudati , in which he describes Rocket...

Are you using Windows Live Writer for blogging? If not, why not? In addition to supporting rich WYSIWYG creation and editing of blog posts, it natively supports inserting pictures and automatically uploading them to your blog (if your blogging software...

Here’s a nice concise roundup of a bunch of developer resources on MSDN, as well as for Vista and Office: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/events/bb288458.aspx Published with BlogMailr

This week, I'm in a class on .NET 3.0, and already getting some useful tidbits. For example, there are a couple of very useful tools for building services in WCF. One is the Service Configuration Editor, which provides a visual editor for .config files...

This Thursday, May 17th, at 6:00pm, the Roanoke Valley SQL Server Users Group will hold its next meeting. The topic will be database maintenance in SQL Server 2005, presented by Andrew Kelley. Details here: http://www.rvssug.org/events/

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/property-of-unsc/first-pics-of-the-zune-halo-3-special-edition-259877.php Published with BlogMailr

This is way cool: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab Published with BlogMailr

Sorry for the sudden slowdown in blogging, folks. Unfortunately, my father passed away late last week after a 2-year battle with leukemia. So blogging will probably be light for the next couple of weeks as I deal with arrangements, and also some travel...

Cool…soon you’ll be able to easily convert SWF to XAML for WPF and Silverlight , so you don’t have to start from scratch. Published with BlogMailr

This is good stuff to know if you blog: http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/ Thanks to my colleague Bob Familiar for pointing this out. It should be obvious, but IANAL , so my pointing out this link should not be construed as legal advice...