Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT)

Finally... Internet access! I've been here in Barcelona for the entire week visiting the sites. Barcelona is a beautiful city! Magnificent architecture and art. I've just completed my setup for the Imagine Cup Competition . We have these really cool...

Here's a nice PDF overviewing the features of PocketPC 2003. Good stuff! Can't wait to get my hands on a new PocketPC Device. This time I want a PocketPC Phone so I can finally marry my GSM cell phone and Pocket PC together. Let's hope Pocket PC 2003...

I just finished writing and implementing the specification and namespace definition for my photoAlbum RSS Module . This now adds RSS support for my Photo Album Web Service, so if the service is on a live website, you can actually subscribe to the Photo...

This is the moment I've been waiting for for about 2 months now. Nearly exactly 2 months ago, the US Finals for the Imagine Cup were in full effect. Now, after 2 months of waiting, not idly, I'm off to Barcelona, Spain tonite. These next two weeks will...

As Julia points out, I had a difficult time telling people that I had won the Imagine Cup since there was little to no references of it. Finally there is a Press Release announced today! UPDATE #1: Here's another link to the same press release at the...

To put it plainly and simply, CeBit America sucked! Let me begin by stating that I've gone to PC Expo's in NYC since the early 90's when I was in middle school. I recall Andy Grove talking about the "Ubiqutous PC" when the Pentium chips were being just...

CNET has a good article about the "Larry Factor" and how this bid for PeopleSoft is a sign of Oracles slow demise.

One thing for sure, Java doesn't have the ECMA and ISO standardization that C# and the CLI has. If they did, they wouldn't constantly have to keep fighting with Sun's Java Community Process mechanism of "standards". If Sun just hadn't pulled their ECMA...

In the morning I'm heading on the LIRR into the city for the first CeBIT America. Will report back later in the day as to how it was. I've been an avid attendee to PC Expo since the early 90's (yes, even when I was in middle school!). But unfortunately...

Ken Getz gave a great talk tonight about Windows Forms Inheritance. This is a great idea if you're looking to save some time coding and debugging/testing. I've used some of the ideas that he mentioned today in the past and found it to be really helpful...

Someone a while a took the liberty of subscribing me to the "Java Developer's Journal". I'm not a Java developer, and honestly I hate the whole Java, Sun, and Oracle camp just as much or even more than anyone in that camp hates .NET and Microsoft. I must...

Since TechEd Europe is just around the corner, and seeing Christian's post and Christophe's post , I figured I'd join the TechEd Bloggers . Looking forward to meeting everyone at the meet up there! BTW, If you're on AT&T Wireless's mLife and...

I just clicked thourgh all the way in Stephen Forte's blog ... These photos are hilarious !

I'm heading out to the meeting tonite at 6pm @ Microsoft in NYC. Hopefully I'll get to meet up with a few of you after the talk by Ken Getz .

There is finally an official website up for the Image Cup Competition: http://www.imaginecup.com/default.htm  If you click on "The Line Up", and then click the star that's next to New York, you'll hit a profile of me...

Don Box says "If you don't want funkiness, there's little reason to use XML." I'm funky . I'm valid .

IBM has announced some Java toolkits that enable you to consume Web Services on Palm OS, Blackberry OS, and Symbian OS. Also, they support Pocket PC as well. Personally, I'm not a big Java fan, but for those of you out there that use Java these tools...

Sam points out two great articles on MSDN about Performance considerations when writing Managed Code. Good Stuff! I've taken the pledge too!

Look! Oracle is now counter-suing PeopleSoft and JD Edwards... They just don't get it, do they? When will Larry Elison ever learn?

Just a friendly reminder to all that this conference is coming up soon...

Looks like Microsoft has just released tools for writing "old VBA" applications in managed code... very cool. Here's the link .