March 2006 - Posts

• Xbox 360 Retail Store Inventory Tracker - Interlude

  Today, I was demonstrating the Xbox 360 Retail Store Inventory Tracker to the Longhorn Server Ascend Application Platform workshop in Toronto ... and it actually found an Xbox in a retail store: a Circuit City in Delaware!!! So the things actually do Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:11 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 2 Comments

• Xbox 360 Retail Store Inventory Tracker #2

  The Windows Workflow Foundation Synthesizes the Components of a Solution If you want to know how the Xbox 360 retail store inventory tracker described in my previous post works, then you just have to look at the code. I don't mean that you have to read Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:35 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 0 Comments Attachment(s): workflow.bmp

• Xbox 360 Retail Store Inventory Monitor #1

  This post is the first in a series about my application for finding the very rare Xbox 360 on retail store shelves in the United States. It uses all three of the core WinFX technologies and demonstrates how the Windows Presentation Foundation can be used Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:36 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 12 Comments

• The Economy of Identity

  Canadian writer, William Gibson, is one of the most important science fiction authors of recent years, and generally considered to be the greatest practitioner of the cyberpunk style. Several movies have been made from his works, the most well-known being Read More... Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 12:45 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 5 Comments