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Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:23 PM

XNA 2.0

XNA 2.0 has finally launched! Due to the secretive nature of the date this has been fervently awaited surprise. There's alot cool new features in both the development studio and framework, but I'm most excited about Networking support. This is going to
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Friday, November 23, 2007 4:57 PM

SQL Server Data Mining Addins for Excel

You can now use excel for advanced analysis and data mining! Now, in addition to being able to import data directly from SQL Server, Excel can access the mining and analysis tools in sql server. The Analyze Key Influencers is one of the coolest features
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Friday, November 16, 2007 1:38 PM

Delaware

I've spent the last couple days wandering through Delaware to talk to the Delaware DotNet Users Group (aka dednug: http://dednug.org/ ). They have a catch-22 situation there where: They want to create more .NET developers Local developers don't learn
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:26 AM

Silverlight 1.0

Aparently, this release has yet to reach everyone, so I though to was worthy of reiteration Silverlight is Microsof'ts new dynamic web application platform. In other words Silverlight = Flash ++ Why? Basically Silverlight 1.1 will allow you to use CLR//use
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:15 AM

The I'm Initiative

MSN Messenger has released a new project (which I worked on!) that helps you contribute to charity. Just include a code in your friendly name/personal message and Microsoft will contribute money to your charity of choice! Codes are as follows (on Messenger
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:11 AM

Photosynth

Completely novel way to navigate environment based photo sets. Also, you can use the 3D visualization to see how Photosynth applies the stitching algorithms... Check it out: http://labs.live.com/photo synth/view.html?collection =sanmarco/index1.sxs PS
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:10 AM

How Ruby Showed Me Why Microsoft Wins Developers

Recently, I spent a few precious hours of my late night dev time learning Ruby on Rails. The syntax is great and the libraries are well developed for such a young community. The fun ends there... Ruby on Rails is widely touted as the easy language to
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