Jon Gallant's Blog

dev lead @ microsoft

March, 2006

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    Nikhil's Mix Breakout - The highlight of the Mix

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    Nikhil always makes everything make sense. His MusicMix breakout was the highlight of Mix for me. Check out the demo and source here: http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=113 Tag: MIX06 , MIX
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    Amazon's Mechanical Turk

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    Let's say an algorithm does what we need it to do really well 90% of the time. We have a choice to build the app to handle the other 10% which could come at substantial cost, or introduce a human workflow process. Ultimately we'd want to have true artificial...
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    Mix Day 2 - Office, Media Center, Gadgets, Atlas

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    Very cool talk with Joe Belfiore this morning. I came a little late, but caught the cool work ms is doing with ease of integration with Office Addins. VSTO makes this especially easy. He demo'd a cool add in that eBay created for monitoring auctions....
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    Mix Day 1 Part 2

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    Overview of Expression - Brad Becker Splitview and XamlPad are included in the WinFx SDK . You can use them to create the Xaml by hand, but I would stay away if you can and go with Expression ! It is way too verbose to be editing by hand. Expression allows...
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    Mix Day 1 - Part 1

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    My day started off by having a quick bite with Doug Seven of DotNetJunkies and SqlJunkies fame. Amazingly enough we work in the same building @ ms, but have never met - it's cool b/c we both started community projects for developers (him: DotNetJunkies...
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    Office 12 - What do you think?

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    Just installed Office12 yesterday....I know a bit late, but I've been working like crazy lately and just starting to get caught back up on what else is happening in this world ;) Wow - it is slick. I'm lovin the ribbon and the inline style editing...
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    Mix it up!

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    Just found out that I'll be hanging in LV for a few days next week at Mix06. For those of you that can't go - what sessions would you like me to attend on your behalf? Here's a link to the sessions: http://mix06.com/Speakers.aspx I'll post overview...
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