yag: Community and Architecture

It's been a while since I've posted on the blog - as I moved to more internal teams, I haven't had as much to talk about. That's all about to change. Below is an email I just sent out. You can find my new blog (actually, my old personal one) at http:...

Pretty cool. I have my XBOX 360 playing Hulu, YouTube and other videos via MediaMall's PlayOn software. Channel9 posted the source code to a plugin that lets you watch C9 videos, screencasts, etc., via the TV too. The video is pretty clear - I could see...

Joe Homnick has an awesome blog entry on keeping your VPCs on a USB key (your undo drive on your hard disc). He says that he's getting great performance, and it's easy to keep your VPCs with you wherever you go. Great for training classes. Check it...

Jim Wooley just posted a great entry on his ThinqLinq site. It involves using Linq to XML and VB9's XML Literals to query Shakespeare's plays. He first joins all the plays on his drive together into one big XML file and then gets the top 50 characters...

Many years ago I saw Jill Sobule do a show - and I enjoyed her sense of humor and stage presence. Bought a few of her CDs to check them out. Anyway, was looking around today and found this site . It's called Jill's Next Record! and asks the community...

There's a new video on Channel 9 about functional programming. Erik spends most of it on his whiteboard. Make sure you're in a quiet room for an hour. <g>

Erik Meijer and I have discussed Volta a number of times - very exciting to see it released on Live Labs . A few links that should be interesting: Erik's announcement post on LTU. The Volta team blog Wes' blog - with a "Hello, World" walkthrough...

We've figured out the Vista border issue (we think). We couldn't reproduce it here, but Jim Slater noted that it happens for him when he changes the bordertype in the init. As Calvin mentioned in these blog entries: Windows Vista Aero BorderStyle Paint...

I've been reading the comments here and on some sites about SP2. I wanted to give my point of view about it and ask for a few things from the community. Milind, Calvin, Aiwen and I have been going thru the reports and trying to reproduce them here...

It may take around a 1/2 hour to propogate to all the servers, but it's now online.

As some of you have noticed, we had a bug in our SP2 release. We forgot to update the file with the splash screen in it. Nice getting back online to messages about it. My thanks to those of you who mentioned it nicely. <g> Anyway, Milind and...

Now that SP2 is out, you can go ahead and download the free ActiveX controls being made available by our friends at DBI. The controls include the following: ctTray Offers developers direct access to the standard Windows System...

I'll be speaking on Silverlight at Devteach in Vancouver the week of November 26th. Devteach is an awesome conference - and this year has a full track on XNA - which should be interesting. And improving on things this year, Jeff Palermo is throwing one...

As stated in the latest monthly letter , we just shipped Service Pack 2 (SP2) for VFP 9! You can download it here . We've also made the bug list available . The source code to the VFP and VB.NET components will be made available next week. My thanks...

I'll be speaking at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany on November 8-10. I'll be keynoting the VFP conference and doing a session on VB.NET (including things like LINQ, Silverlight and future releases). This is one of my all time favorite conferences...

Here's a great post about blogging and its usefulness in corporations. The quote I wanted to point out: What did Microsoft do? I don't know if they had it before, but it takes certain organizational cultural values. It's not about process, or rules...

As most of you know, I'm a baseball fan. MLB.COM just enabled Silverlight in their video pages. The start of great things to come! <g>

Tim Heuer has been working with a team on testing out Silverlight. They created a game called Zero Gravity . It's unbelievably addictive. The music won't leave my head... <g> Anyway, they've included support for a number of social networking sites...

I'm here in Prague , have to head back to the conference for the Q&A session, but spent some time reading my RSS Feeds. Bernard Bout has a "How To" article on using the VB Interop Control Toolkit with VFP. I showed this in my keynote here, using a...

Here's a blog entry (with video) by someone who hooked up a web cam to have one computer play another in pong - totally thru the camera capture. Really a lot of fun to look at. Nice job, Ashish!

I'll be leaving this week for the annual VFP Devcon in Prague , Czech Republic. This is the largest VFP conference in the world and I had a great time there last year. Great speakers, great price.

I wrote a little while ago about what we were trying to accomplish with our efforts. Well, the initial beta is out. This will hopefully give you some insight into what we're working on, and a place for you to give us feedback. The overall information...

Some folks contacted me and said that they'd prefer to watch the videos I mention below directly. Here they are: Bob's video: Video: It's All About Bringing People Together and my video: Video: The Architect's Perspective

Gotta run to a friend's for dinner, but wanted to point out a few videos up on Soapbox. One video is of Bob Rebholz - our Group Product Manager, and one is of me . Both videos talk about some of what we're working on.

When I left the developer division a number of months ago, people were curious as to why. I explained that this new gig was one that kept me awake at night thinking of all the cool things we could be doing. I wrote a little about this when I first joined...