Carter Maslan

Regarding the Commercial Real Estate Longhorn demo , Joseph asked in email, How can the one-click install feature possibly be secure when a one click install application is e-mail? You are allowing someone else’s code to run on your machine....

You’ve got to admire the ambition of prioritizing the world’s problems – literally. Copenhagen Consensus seeks to create the grandest “To Do” list ever by assembling economic specialists to rank opportunities to tackle The...

Today a partner showed me a very cool device from Logitech based on Anoto technology. It seemed like a very promising way to bring paper and pen into the digital world – it’s like Tablet PC vector-based inking for paper forms. Perhaps Anoto...

Everyone loves the satellite / aerial fly-over shown in the Commercial Real Estate Longhorn demo . You too can fly right now by downloading the app from Keyhole .

The Department of Health and Human Services announced a plan to computerize and standardize health records. The report: " The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-rich Health Care ”. I've often...

Watch Thomas Lewis, Technical Evangelist for ASP.NET 2.0, give you his top-of-mind perspective on salient features of ASP.NET 2.0 in this 10 minute video .

It's pretty natural to think through engineering problems in terms of choices between this OR that (e.g. web app OR windows app, online OR offline, centralized OR distributed, record-oriented OR document-oriented, synchronous OR asynchronous, http OR...

Attend the WSE 3.0 SDR without leaving your desktop: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/community/events/default.aspx

When I was working with Jim Karkanias at Merck on a clinical trial prototype, he left me with two pithy comments: “the tools sell themselves” and “doing business with Microsoft is like doing business with an ant colony.” Believe it or not, neither of...

3D data visualizations, smart reflow, ink annotations on video, secure p2p with verified identities, ... it's all becoming pragmatic for everyday line of business applications. Ben walks through a healthcare patient monitoring application that shows glimpses...

Karsten just published a whitepaper and video of the North Face prototype shown in Jim Allchin's PDC keynote. Marketers like Regis McKenna have talked about the blend of hot and cool media - where your IT systems become your marketing. This demo opens...

We had guests queue up their favorite dance music for our DJ in advance of a party we hosted last month. The party site used this ASP.NET 2.0 control to call the Amazon E-Commerce Web Service to search for music and bind the selected items to a database...

Since Jeff stayed up late getting www.microsoftgadgets.com ready for today's announcement of Windows Live , I thought I'd give gadgets a try. Remembering back in the day at Inktomi when major portals were reluctant to allow a 3rd party to control anything...

Typing keywords into a search box is tedious – especially when most of the relevant search terms are staring you in the face in the application you’re using! For example, as we close the fiscal year, I’m reviewing budgets, purchase orders, invoices, and...

Steve Marx has really lengthened The Long Tail . His risky prank and SwansonVision Atlas app qualify him as the undisputed king of post-ophthalmologic-surgery geek humor.

Karsten had a great time working with the Yahoo team on their Windows Vista Messenger client. They've posted a video preview of the app with some fun features like the group skinning in the fantasy football league example. Karsten - at the risk of...

Please examine some aerial images if you can.

My personal blog is now http://blog.maslan.com

Jason's Channel 9 interview with Accruent provides some background on the real estate application shown on www.seewindowsvista.com . If you only have 10 minutes, jump to the clip of the Windows Vista application for visualizing demographic data surrounding...

Call me lazy, but I often just want to search, click, and talk. Now, this Live.com gadget lets me do it by using the Click2CallU beta service from Vonage . When you click on a search result, you receive a call that connects you automatically to the desired...

Soma's post mentioned three specific Windows Vista applications ( The North Face , British Library , and Avenue A | Razorfish ) on www.seewindowsvista.com . Since other people may also want to link directly to the videos of specific applications, here...

If you're on a web page that displays a book with its ISBN/ISSN number, you can search or reserve the book at our local library with one click using this bookmarklet: Right-click on this link: Peninsula Library System and select " Add to Favorites...

Karsten's 5-day WPF training agenda looks great. Karsten has helped partners design and develop some of the best showcase applications, so I trust his editorial judgment.

You can download PDC session content here: http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx

Tim posted some good video nuggets today. My favorite is the screencast on Data Binding , where he builds a rudimentary RSS reader using Windows Presentation Foundation in 14 lines of code.