Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

September 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:17 AM

Marmaduke Explained

I did my time with the liberal arts, and I've got the papers to prove it. I'm down with Plato and Epicurus, and I've rocked the Socratic method. And yet, since I've been a child, despite numerous hours of thought, I remain perlexed by Marmaduke . But
Posted by ericgu | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:57 AM

Sandcastle - MSDN-style docs for your assemblies

For a *long* time, whenever I spent time with C# customers, I would invariably get asked, "How do I create docs for my assemblies?". And my best answer was either, "there's a XSLT file that makes the XML look a little better" or "you might want to consider
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,
Sunday, September 24, 2006 5:11 PM

SIR Mountain Populaire 2006

Today, I rode the Mountain Populaire 100K, put on by the Seattle International Randonneurs . Randonneuring is a long-distance cycling discipline that originated in France (hence the name) way back in the 1800s. It's organized around a series of rides
Posted by ericgu | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:02 PM

White and Nerdy

White and Nerdy I will not comment on how many of these apply to me...
Posted by ericgu | 3 Comments
Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:25 PM

Yellow Sticky Exercise

Yellow Sticky Exercise Take one pack yellow stickies (aka "Post It" brand sticky paper notes). Place them strategically on your hands and arms, and wave them around for 10 minutes. Wait... That's the wrong version. The yellow sticky exercise is a tool
Posted by ericgu | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:39 PM

Bugs, blogs, and surrogates

Back in 1996, I was a QA lead for the C++ compiler, and our group wanted to incent people to fix and close bugs. One of the other QA leads had the brilliant insight that lego blocks make excellent currency amongst development teams, and I - because of
Posted by ericgu | 7 Comments
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:46 PM

Dell woes...

When I started in the Video Memories group about 24 months ago, I got two new "dev boxes" from Dell. A "dev box" is a configuration that is good enough to develop on, which at that time meant a dual-proc 3.4 Gig Pentium 4 with 2 gig of ram and about 60
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:44 AM

Windows shell team website

The windows shell team has started a blog at ShellRevealed.com There's a blog, and some forums. There isn't a ton of content yet, but there is a short tutorial about the task dialog.
Posted by ericgu | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:47 PM

Fun with a ISU Inclinometer

For a while now, you've been able to buy digital levels . Amazingly, they will display angles within 0.1 degree. As some of you know, I've been on a quest for a good way of mapping hills, and I found that you can order up a inclinometer from the same
Posted by ericgu | 10 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, September 15, 2006 9:59 AM

Avalon (I mean WPF) book recommendations?

I'm looking for a recommendation for a good Avalon book. Which one do you like, and why?
Posted by ericgu | 17 Comments
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:29 AM

AV components and cable prices

Somebody on an internal alias asked, "why is a HDMI cable $60 when the DVD player is also only $60", and here's what I wrote: McDonalds sells you a hamburger for $0.69 (hypothetical price - I haven't bought a burger from them in quite a while). They charge
Posted by ericgu | 5 Comments
Monday, September 11, 2006 9:00 AM

DVD Maker, Wizards, and SuperSite for Windows

Last week, Paul Thurrott wrote a post entitled, " The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1 ", in which he discusses a few things that he doesn't like about Vista. And the first item in his article talks about the DVD Maker UI. Paul's complaint is that the "back"
Posted by ericgu | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:27 AM

xkcd

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. I really like this Venn diagram ...
Posted by ericgu | 1 Comments
 
Page view tracker