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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 | 15 Comments   
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WinForms, Vista and Glass
TimS does a great post on getting the Vista “glass” look and feel in a WinForms app... http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/04/18/578637.aspx This is a cool little “light-up” feature you can do in your WinForms app to make them look even cooler when Read More...
Posted 04 May 06 10:28 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Information on Offline Client applications with .NET Framework 2.0
Steve posts some good information on getting offline client apps developed with VS2005 and .NET Framework 2.0... I’d love to hear feedback or success stories... From Steve’s blog.. Using SQL Server Mobile w/Visual Studio 2005 – 7 minutes A quick walkthrough Read More...
Posted 02 May 06 07:40 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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What customers ultimately buy...
Amazon has a cool new feature on many of there pages called “ What do customers ultimately buy after viewing items like this?” Seems pretty self-explanatory... After folks view one item, what item do the eventually buy... Joe Wikert noticed this as well Read More...
Posted 23 April 06 09:15 by BradA | 11 Comments   
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Live From Redmond...
INETA (the .NET User Group People) just created a virtual user group called Live From Redmond … We will have Microsoft folks give Live Meeting talks every week on topics we hope you will find interesting. These are open to anyone. We hope you will come Read More...
Posted 11 April 06 07:04 by BradA | 4 Comments   
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A rare moment in history is passing you by... What were you doing?
A very rare moment in history is passing you by --- the time is: 01 02 03 04 05 06.... that is the current time is: 01:02:03 04/05/06 To mark this otherwise forgettable occasion, I’d love to find out what you were doing at exactly this time... please Read More...
Posted 05 April 06 01:02 by BradA | 36 Comments   
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Novice tip for doing Ajax development
I spent a little time over the holiday break experimenting with Ajax development specifically with the December Atlas preview . Overall I am very impressed with what you can do with zero client impact. One problem I ran into fairly quickly was that I Read More...
Posted 26 December 05 12:12 by BradA | 7 Comments   
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Peanut butter and software planning
One of the reasons planning software projects is so much fun is that there are tons of inputs… customer requests, what the competition is doing, what the business needs to grow, supporting other groups at the company, our own personal pet peeves about Read More...
Posted 21 November 05 02:56 by BradA | 7 Comments   
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from Features to Value Proposition
One thing I love about software is that there are very few limits to what you can do. Basically if you can imagine it, it can be done. After all it is all ones-and-zeros. One implication of this is that it is easy to think up new features for a software Read More...
Posted 15 November 05 03:49 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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TV over the internet -- not yet...
A was really excited to see Apple would host some ABC TV shows on iTunes . Clearly the has to be the wave of the future.. with the advent of DVRs the days of overtly commercial sponsored TV seem to be numbered… and Apple ’s foray into on-demand TV download Read More...
Posted 29 October 05 08:36 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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DavidTr's interview on DotNet Rocks
Ok, Ok, I am a little behind. But I recently finished listening to David Treadwell’s interview with DoNetRocks . It is a very interesting look back at this history of .NET and windows generally as David has been deeply involved in the platform for a long Read More...
Posted 27 October 05 08:26 by BradA | 0 Comments   
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