February 2004 - Posts
DevDays 2004 is nearly here. The Smart Client track looks really interesting - they are going to cover all sorts of things like security, deployment and application design. Check out the Smart Client track info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/devdays/agenda/smartclient/default.aspx
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Check out this very interesting case study for a medical diagnosis smart client application... http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=14952 A nice example of leveraging local resources - AI and Bayesian decision theory
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Greg Robinson has an interesting No-Touch Deployment scenario. From what Greg has said on his blog , and the comments he has posted to my blog ( here and here ), it looks like he has a couple of interesting security related issues to resolve – the
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I did my first web cast the week before last. A colleague and I, Brenton Webster, who is also a solution architect in the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team, co-presented a session on Smart Client Architecture. Now, Smart Client Architecture is a big topic
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This morning I was recorded on video as I gave a presentation on Smart Client architecture. Gripping stuff I’m sure you’ll agree and a surefire contender for next years Oscars (category: Best delivery of a PowerPoint presentation on Smart
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I just changed the tag line for my blog to a quote from Nicholas Negroponte’s book “Being Digital” . I think it succinctly conveys the fact that, whether we geeks like it or not, computing is becoming ever more pervasive. I’m not
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I just found this article about Egg, a UK based online bank, and how they are going to use smart clients to provide better services to their customers, such as video conferencing features, to clients running Longhorn... http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5150019.html?tag=nefd_to
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I got some great feedback on my article on what a smart client so smart. Thank you everybody. I also got a couple of questions about No Touch deployment so here are some more details... There is a quirk with NTD in that it does not check the version of
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One question I get asked a lot is “So what, exactly, is a Smart Client and what makes it so smart?“. Well, OK, that's two questions but you get the idea. Hmmmm.... After much deliberation, soul searching and speaking to customers and partners
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