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New Blog Location (blog.maslan.com)

My personal blog is now http://blog.maslan.com Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:38 PM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

Help find Jim Gray's boat

Please examine some aerial images if you can. Read More...

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 9:39 AM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Karsten had a great time working with the Yahoo team on their Windows Vista Messenger client. They've posted a video preview of the app with some fun features like the group skinning in the fantasy football league example. Karsten - at the risk of exacerbating Read More...

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 9:16 AM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments

Filed under: Demos

Peninsula Library System Bookmarklet for my Mom

If you're on a web page that displays a book with its ISBN/ISSN number, you can search or reserve the book at our local library with one click using this bookmarklet: Right-click on this link: Peninsula Library System and select " Add to Favorites... Read More...

Posted Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:26 PM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

Deep Link URLs for www.seewindowsvista.com

Soma's post mentioned three specific Windows Vista applications ( The North Face , British Library , and Avenue A | Razorfish ) on www.seewindowsvista.com . Since other people may also want to link directly to the videos of specific applications, here Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:13 AM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

Click2Call on Local Search Results using your Vonage

Call me lazy, but I often just want to search, click, and talk. Now, this Live.com gadget lets me do it by using the Click2CallU beta service from Vonage . When you click on a search result, you receive a call that connects you automatically to the desired Read More...

Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 1:29 AM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

Fantastic Work in Data Visualization

Jason's Channel 9 interview with Accruent provides some background on the real estate application shown on www.seewindowsvista.com . If you only have 10 minutes, jump to the clip of the Windows Vista application for visualizing demographic data surrounding Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:17 PM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

The Long Tail includes post-ophthalmologic-surgery geek humor

Steve Marx has really lengthened The Long Tail . His risky prank and SwansonVision Atlas app qualify him as the undisputed king of post-ophthalmologic-surgery geek humor. Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:49 PM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments

This is the future of SDKs

The new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK does a great job making the platform discoverable and easy to use. The SDK is organized by the things you want to do , and each of those things is correlated to a live running sample, source code, and reference documentation Read More...

Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:38 PM by jcmaslan | 7 Comments

Better Search via Application Context

Typing keywords into a search box is tedious – especially when most of the relevant search terms are staring you in the face in the application you’re using! For example, as we close the fiscal year, I’m reviewing budgets, purchase orders, invoices, and Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:11 PM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments

WPF training agenda - from humility to awe

Karsten's 5-day WPF training agenda looks great. Karsten has helped partners design and develop some of the best showcase applications, so I trust his editorial judgment. Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:58 PM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

Queue-up the DJ with ASP.NET 2.0 Control for Amazon Web Service

We had guests queue up their favorite dance music for our DJ in advance of a party we hosted last month. The party site used this ASP.NET 2.0 control to call the Amazon E-Commerce Web Service to search for music and bind the selected items to a database Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 20, 2006 11:37 PM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments

Filed under: Technical

Mimi is on the Map

My therapist wife Mimi is literally my exact opposite on the Myers-Briggs personality type test. I think one of the reasons she’s so good at what she does is that she’s very grounded – results-oriented with a pragmatic assessment and prioritization of Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:13 AM by jcmaslan | 3 Comments

Filed under: Technical, Random

Windows Live Gadget for Bay Area Traffic

Since Jeff stayed up late getting www.microsoftgadgets.com ready for today's announcement of Windows Live , I thought I'd give gadgets a try. Remembering back in the day at Inktomi when major portals were reluctant to allow a 3rd party to control anything Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:51 AM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments

PDC 2005 Content Download Location

You can download PDC session content here: http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:22 AM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments