June 2007 - Posts
Hi... some time ago I met Korby Parnell and was really impressed by the ideas that he and the team around him have had. Some of which is live and I will start to use it. Example Tagspace: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/beta/tagspaceoverview.mspx
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Hi... Oli Scheer and I did some video art. We did a little Silverlight player around it(Oli is in the process of making V2.0 ;-)... Have a look... My favourite is the Drawings video... See http://www.xtopia.de/ , Section Kunst... CU 0xff
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Hi... they recently posted a cool collections of photos done in cooperation with the BBC and other partners. This gives you a real impression what can be done with Photosynth. http://labs.live.com/photosynth/bbc/ CU 0xff
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Hi... when I started developing software it was all about saving memory and processor cycles. Ladies and Gentlemen, this changed dramatically... I am in the process of learning Ruby. Since I do this in little steps (10 minutes here, 15 minutes there)
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Hi... I found a nice video about the Research which is done in Cambridge. See the original page here http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/videos/cambridge.aspx It is nearly 29 minutes long but gives a nice intro. CU 0xff
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Hi... while zapping through the channels seeking for "Monster Garage" (my favourite series) I heart one sentence which really made me think: Todays' consumers don't by products, they buy dreams. This really expresses the difference between two portable
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Hi... I found a nice music video on IEEE Spectrum done by a EEngineer. Have a look: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/video?id=40 The text underneath the video says that a purpose of the video is to make engineering hip again. This is in my sense a very noble
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Hi... today I learned that I am a Missouri-kind of Developer. I heard that Missouri is the "show-me" state, ok, guys, I am like you If you are like me you certainly like this offering here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb495180.aspx where
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Hi... have you ever heard about the effect the first broadcast of "War of the worlds" had?? Well, some Czech guys did it during breakfast TV by hacking into a live webcam On the other hand it shows how far we rely on news... CU 0xff
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Hi... I made some thoughts on Web 2.0 Security and Privacy and scetched some things (see www.cu-0xff.de/web20sec/ ). I used the Windows Journal to Silverlight exporter. First I tried to develop a model for the information gathering in the Next Web usage
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Hi... I thought I have a scheme to identify typical Expression users. Designers tend to look specific. Now this designer (and IT admin by the way) looks very specific and somehow different to what I am used to. Lori did a video with her and I can tell
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Hi... since there is no "build-in" 3D engine in Silverlight it makes sense to build some kind of engine. The project Balder ( http://www.codeplex.com/Balder ) addresses this. And having a look on the first demos gave me a good feeling on performance ;-)
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Hi... life is funny: At the STC I talked about Microsoft itself more and more adopting agile processes within its own software development. My example was SCRUM and how it is used within Microsoft. Now we have an implementation called eScrum on the web
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HI... recently I found this article http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun07/5119 in the IEEE Spectrum. It is about the renaissance of the Do it yourself style of building things. There I found a new word called MacGyvering. Since I am a fan of MacGyver I thought:
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HI... every little thing has its own story. So does the video which Lori just posted on www.on10.net ... The video is on her blog here http://www.on10.net/Blogs/lorigros/mix07-goodbye-mix-hello-xtopia/ When we started recording we thought it might be
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Hi... Daniel Walzenbach - the brain and the power behind MSDN Solve - just made a mashup using a GPS sender, his mobile, Live Local and .net 3.0 to build an application which tracks him automatically... So if you ask yourself "where is Daniel?" just say
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Hi... this is funny because it is true... http://www.davidairey.com/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/ The video is a real killer... CU 0xff
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Hi... not I am not relating to the times when certain runtime enviroments stalled because they were measuring the CPU by counting ticks in a certain amount of time and got an overflow in the counter... I am relating to an industry workshop done by the
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Hi... Security is a topic which will not leave us for the time of our existance, I think. Recently I was playing with some technologies like Astoria , Silverlight and ASP.NET Futures . My idea was to build something special for the XTOPIA conference.
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Hi... thank you Scott for the comment... ;-) YES, I forgot to mention that there are a ton of useful plugins for LiveWriter available. I just found the smiley plugin... Like it :-) http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?bt=9&pl=8 CU 0xff
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Hi... blogging is mainstream. My manager (Said Zahedani who is part of the German Leadership team of Microsoft) started his official blog. It is in German and may provide some insides into the highest ranks within MS Germany. http://blogs.msdn.com/SaidZahedani
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