Carter Maslan

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK does a great job making the platform discoverable and easy to use. The SDK is organized by the things you want to do , and each of those things is correlated to a live running sample, source code, and reference documentation...

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...

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.

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...

My therapist wife Mimi is literally my exact opposite on the Myers-Briggs personality type test. I think one of the reasons she’s so good at what she does is that she’s very grounded – results-oriented with a pragmatic assessment and prioritization of...

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...

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

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...

Tim published a great overview of WPF on MSDN yesterday. It's a good place to start exploring.

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.

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...

They’re a bit dated, but these Longhorn Windows Vista Concept Videos are back online now. Apologies to those of you that had broken links, but at least they’re up again. Thanks to Laurie Moloney; Kent Sharkey; Matt Powell for resurrecting them after...

JPEG Hammer is a great utility to correct JPEG EXIF information (e.g. Date/Time a picture was taken). I had hundreds of old photos without any date information and wanted them to show up on my flickr calendar-view correctly. A few "Edit/Select All" operations...

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...

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

Avalon, XAML, Metro, Express Apps, Indigo, ... a veritable candy store of next-generation technologies, and the chance to work closely with Karsten and Tim on our most exciting Technology Adoption Program (TAP). The position posting is here: ...

Artists are constrained by their medium - both in the limits of what it can express and in the methodology of its practice. Karsten loves art, and I think it shows in the way he describes Avalon. He sees the convergence of digital media, flexible UI elements...