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July 2006 - Posts

Map Your Mind: MindMap + VirtualEarth

Here's an interesting mashup: Michael Scherotter (the MindMap guy) has added address lookup and route finding to MindManager using Virtual Earth web services. He says the idea came to him at Mashup Camp , and took root in planning a family vacation. It's Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 10:51 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Macintosh .NET

Here's an interesting little data point to put on your radar: Nathan Herring , long time Microsoft Macintosh developer, has joined the MiniCLR team , a core component of WPF/E . Now, what do you think Mike Harsh and the "Windows Presentation Foundation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:05 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

Charlie Calvert Joins Microsoft C# Team

It's official! Charlie Calvert , long time Delphi evangelist at Borland and C# developer at Falafel , and consummate writer, has joined Microsoft's C# team as Community Program Manager. Charlie is a wonderful speaker, and by his very nature has a calming Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:01 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Mashup Camp 2006 Wrapup

Mashup Camp brought together some 400 people interested in developing web applications quickly by combining mutiple data sources or services in interesting ways. This being my first "unconference", I found the just-in-time and minimal organization of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:17 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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Mashup Camp: Identity discussion

This discussion, led by Johannes Ernst, sought to explore ways to improve the user experience in maintaining personal information across multiple web sites. Multiple logins on multiple sites are more than just a nuisance for the end user - a typical pattern Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:00 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Mashup Camp Photos

Mashup Camp is rolling along, purposefully on the edge of giddy chaos. It's an interesting mix of people - independent (for pay) developers, corporate devs, passionate hobbyists, venture capitalists, press, and service providers. Everybody is interested Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:09 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Bugger

In times like these I'm reminded of Captain Jack Sparrow, who, when caught between a hoard of hungry cannibals on one side and a sheer cliff of death on the other, elloquently and concisely summed up the situation thusly: " Bugger! " The technology rollout Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:28 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Mashup Camp! And a Crack of Thunder...

I'm off to Mashup Camp this week! Monday and Tuesday are pegged for Mashup University, with a more traditional conference session structure, and the unstructured (or just-in-time structured) mashup camp is on Wednesday. I'm told that last year's camp Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 11:27 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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Windows Live at Toronto Delphi User Group

Toronto was sunny, warm, and surprisingly windy - perfect weather! Highly recommended over Toronto's November offerings. I had a day to kill between TechEd and the TDUG meeting Monday night, so Bruce McGee took me over to Toronto's Pacific Mall to cruise Read More...
Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 9:59 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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