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John Gossman's observations on Avalon development
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Tales from the Smart Client
PropertyTriggers in Avalon
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over 8 years ago
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My colleague Joe Marini has written a much needed introduction to PropertyTriggers . Another colleague of mine has just submitted an article about Storyboards to Chris Sells. Watch these spaces! These are just two of the hot Avalon topics I've mentioned...
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Mini-Microsoft's most enjoyable post in a while
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over 8 years ago
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The posting is very insider, but if you work at any company of significant size you'll probably know what he's talking about. Most people hate the review system, at MS or wherever they work. One strategy for dealing with it is to ignore it as much as...
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Working on a XAML parser
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over 8 years ago
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In the large, I can't yet tell the world what I'm working on (hint, PDC). But the past few weeks I've been hard at work on a XAML parser and serializer. Now Marc Clifton has shown you can implement a XAML parser in 300 lines of code , so you may wonder...
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I'm a client guy...in case you hadn't noticed.
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over 8 years ago
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All this web stuff is just soooooo... confusing.
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Blogs.Msdn.Com infrastructure?
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over 8 years ago
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For obvious PR-ish reasons, Microsoft encourages employees to have public blogs. For obvious ego-ish reasons, a ton of Microsoft employees have taken the company up on the deal. I had a personal blog 3 years ago before I left Visio, at a time when it...
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Wiki Spam and Page Rank
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over 8 years ago
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Within 15 minutes of my last post, Bob pointed out that the purpose of Wiki Spam is to increase the Page Rank of their sites. So, I understand the business model now, I just don't get the ethics... Bob by the way, has an interesting looking site.
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Ruby.Net and Wiki Spam
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over 8 years ago
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For relaxation purposes (yes, I am a geek) I've been playing with dynamic programming languages: Perl, Python and Ruby in particular. Recently I found a project to build a Ruby bridge so you could use it with .NET. The site is set up as a Wiki: http:...
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Enabled comments
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over 8 years ago
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Curious how long before I get comment spam.
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Avalon topics to watch
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over 8 years ago
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Avalon has made an enormous amount of progress in the nearly 3 years I have been working with it. I've had some little projects at work recently, and it is increasingly a pleasure to do them in Avalon...whereas in the past, the stability and incompleteness...
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Amazon Developer's Conference
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over 8 years ago
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Came across the AWS blog coverage of the Amazon Developer's Conference . It's a very different business from what I do, but I love the speaker list and the discussions.
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Changes in Test
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over 8 years ago
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Microsoft announced it was laying off 62 testers today . I don't know the details of this layoff, and I certainly don't want to trivialize the situation these people are in. But but there's actually an industry wide technology story behind this. For a...
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Microsoft's AntiSpyware Strategy
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over 8 years ago
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Hmmmm...Kinda hard to tell what the business plans are, but this at least rhymes with what I wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/strategy.mspx
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The future of AntiVirus and AntiSpyware
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over 8 years ago
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Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal reviewed the beta AntiSpyware program from Microsoft. The summary is it isn't very good yet. But Mossberg makes an important point: Before getting into the details, let me say a word about Microsoft's role in protecting...
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Mozilla Wiki suffering from Slashdot Effect
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over 8 years ago
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When my colleague Joe Marini was slashdotted a few months ago, I remember a post from the peanut gallery about how Joe should switch to an open source server to get better reliability. Hmmm... who would have guessed MozillaWiki was running a crappy commercial...
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IdeaBlade is part of ObjectWare
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over 8 years ago
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Looking through some more papers at IdeaBlade, I found ObjectWare references. I briefly did a ObjectWare based prototype project about 10 years ago when ObjectWare was SmallTalk based. Cool technology then, if not exactly mainstream.
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Maxi-Microsoft -- How do we grow?
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over 8 years ago
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As much as I would enjoy tooling around Redmond on a bulldozer , I think it is fair to say Microsoft's growth potential is limited by our ability to find great candidates, in particular ones happy to endure our rainy winter months. If Microsoft wants...
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Good set of papers about Rich (Smart) Client Internet Applications
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over 8 years ago
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I know next to nothing about IdeaBlade or their products, but the white papers are right on target: Build Smart Client Internet Applications As a quibble, I do prefer the term Rich Client. I know why they refer to it as a Smart Client, but it can imply...
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Silicon Valley in a box
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over 8 years ago
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What Mini-Microsoft doesn't seem to get is that Microsoft is in an industry driven by growth and innovation. Yes, we have our share of Black Hole projects that sop up resources and never ship. But in the outside world there are whole companies like that...
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Off topic?
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over 8 years ago
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My last post is not intended to be typical of this blog. I pride myself on technical knowledge and programming skill, not business acumen, but I have worked at a bunch of different companies and am interested in the industry. Recently I've been working...
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Maxi-Microsoft
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over 8 years ago
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Mini-Microsoft is always an interesting read, for the pure uniqueness of its iconoclasm, and the odd thrill of wondering who might be the author. So it is with some reluctance that I have come to realize: Mini-Microsoft is just plain wrong. Yes, Microsoft...
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