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A Live Mesh Moment
While I was out in the bush near Krueger national park in South Africa recently I found a great use for Live Mesh ...  After a full day of seeing some excellent big game I had a ton of photos to show for my effort. Later that night, back in the lodge, Read More...
Posted 15 July 08 09:35 by BradA | 10 Comments   
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Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code
When I was working the update for my Ajax demo , I needed to create thumb nail from a director of photos. There are tons of tools out there to do this, but I thought I'd share the very simple code I used. It takes all the jpgs in the root path and creates Read More...
Posted 10 July 08 09:15 by BradA | 8 Comments   
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I have a theory... help me prove it!
I have a theory that you can't build amazingly great products if you don't deeply know the customer. An d the best way to get the visceral and lasting impression is to physically go see the customer work in their own environment. This where I need your Read More...
Posted 20 September 07 09:48 by BradA | 10 Comments   
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Ready for Houston TechFest Tomorrow?
Well, I got into Houston late last night and now all I have to do is talk to a few customers and fix up my demos for tomorrow’s TechFest 2007 ! This is a FREE event, brought to you by the good folks at the Houston .NET Users group (and their generous Read More...
Posted 24 August 07 05:39 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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Devscovery in Redmond, WA and Silicon Valley
The good folks at Wintellect are putting on a conference focused on the latest of Microsoft technologies in Redmond and Silicon Valley (both at the Microsoft ft campus). This is a great chance to get some training from industry experts. Devscovery (August Read More...
Posted 01 August 07 04:46 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Visual Studio in Second Life
Did you know that Microsoft is investing in Second Life? That is right... we recently bought an island and have developed it with some really cool stuff. Check out the details here https://www.visualstudioisland.com/ I am all for new, cutting edge stuff, Read More...
Posted 28 June 07 09:19 by BradA | 16 Comments   
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Help! My hard disk crashed
The kitchen laptop crashed today with a few weeks worth of unbacked up information (including pictures of the kids recent birthday party, and the like…) I tried booting off the XP recovery disk and running chkdsk, but about 60% of the way in I get an Read More...
Posted 22 June 07 10:32 by BradA | 44 Comments   
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Defy All Challenges - Video Posted
I love the new VS " Defy All Challenges " theme.. One of the thing that gets me up in the morning (ok, more likely staying up at night) is the idea that we are helping development teams across the world create amazingly better solutions to their everyday Read More...
Posted 11 April 07 05:26 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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Reason #73 that JavaScript is mainstream...
Well, I knew that JavaScript was becoming more mainstream, but I didn't realize it had reached this level.. Wired Al Yankovic's new song White & Nerdy mentions JavaScript right along with Klingon ... What's next? Ajax in a country music song? How Read More...
Posted 28 March 07 11:29 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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A .NET Valentines
A reader just sent me these two .NET love stores... They are great! .NET - A Love Story .NET Love Story Continues... My wife asked me to write her poetry, but I suspect that is not what she hand in mind... How about you, did you get or give any great Read More...
Posted 15 February 07 09:50 by BradA | 0 Comments   
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Are you wearing?
On the way back from a week of vacation in Europe after Teched Barcelona I finished Rainbows End . In this book Vernor Vinge has influenced my view of what the technology should\can do in the future. A few trends from today that Vernor picks up on and Read More...
Posted 19 November 06 03:27 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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Speaking at the Patterns and Practices Conference
I was honored to be asked to speak at the Patterns and Practices Conference in October here on the Redmond campus. I am still locking down exactly what my content will be, so if you plan to come and you have suggestions please do drop me a line. Read More...
Posted 06 September 06 09:17 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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My team is going to TechEd....
Unfortunately I can’t make it to TechEd this year, but a fair number of folks from my team are going. If you get a chance please go check out these sessions! I bolded the sessions given by folks directly on my team, so if you make it to any of those sessions, Read More...
Posted 08 June 06 09:26 by BradA | 0 Comments   
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Standard Microsoft Icons
A customer recently asked me if they can use the standard Microsoft explorer icons in their applications. The answer is yes! In fact Soma blogged about the extended set of Icons we have in VS2005 , but basically you can find the VS 2005 Image Library Read More...
Posted 06 June 06 04:55 by BradA | 12 Comments   
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What's my job?
Last months Dr. Dobbs has an interesting article on the changing face of software development jobs which rings true to me. As the software development discipline matures you might expect the roles to become better defined and specialized. Just like Eskimos Read More...
Posted 04 June 06 02:49 by BradA | 11 Comments   
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