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January 2004 - Posts

On Jon Udell, RSS, and RSSBandit

Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 9:56 AM by johnmont
Jon Udell mentioned that one of the things he wants is for the RSS community to keep its focus on users. Of course, what user are you trying to keep the focus on is always a question, but I'll leave the question of user profiles and personas for a later Read More...
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Mary Jo Noticed

Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 9:42 AM by johnmont
For those of you who remember, a while ago I asked informally what we should call the Longhorn subsystems on my blog. More recently, we ran an informal poll and Mary Jo Foley picked it up . In any event, the net-net of the customer feedback was that we Read More...
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Latest WebMatrix

Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 9:37 AM by johnmont
I noticed this morning that the ASP.NET team had posted the latest WebMatrix . I pulled it down. Nice stuff -- the better table editing helped me a lot. Read More...
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Moving from MFC to Managed Code

Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 9:33 AM by johnmont
Sitting on my desk is a new book: “Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework” by Archer and Sivakumar. It's one of the best books I've seen about Managed C++ and how to get there from your existing MFC applications. Managed C++ is Read More...
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More on the Coffee and Beer Diet

Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 9:31 AM by johnmont
Yesterday my father in law and I did some side-by-side taste testing of Dunkin' Donuts coffee: French Roast vs. regular. We're both black coffee guys, so to us it matters. The verdict: we both preferred the regular. Now what do I do with the rest of a Read More...
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On Phatnoise and Cables

Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 9:30 AM by johnmont
For those of you who followed me at my old home (on gotdotnet using Chris Anderson's BlogX software), you'll remember that I purchased a Kenwood Music Keg, which is really an OEMmed version of the Phatnoise Phatbox . In a nutshell: it's an in-car digital Read More...
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Measuring Namespace Complexity

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:28 AM by johnmont
One of the nice things about the .NET Framework (particularly vs. Win32) was its discoverability. There were 108 namespaces and about 3,800 types. There were just a few top-level namespaces and really only a few you needed to think about (System.Web, Read More...
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Coffee and Beer is All You Need

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:27 AM by johnmont
I was born and brought up in Boston. Consequently, I was born and brought up on Dunkin' Donuts and Dunkin' Donuts coffee. It's hard to express the joy of DD's coffee if you haven't had it. There's just something about it that's really good. Tasty. I mean, Read More...
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Interesting Outlook Plug-Ins in Managed Code

Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 12:21 PM by johnmont
I know of two: DateLens and NewsGator . What are the other cool ones? Read More...
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The Cable Man Cometh

Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 12:12 PM by johnmont
Today, I got High-Definition cable. This is after my Christmas present to myself of a 43-inch high-def-capable Samsung DLP projection TV. I just have to say that HD is amazing -- when the cable guy turned on ESPN-D to an NBA game, I was amazed. That said, Read More...
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Welcome To Your New Home

Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 12:10 PM by johnmont
With blogs.msdn.com coming online I get to start afresh after a long hiatus (during which I was helping get XP SP2 beta out the door and dealing with a few other issues, including ten days in Hawaii). I also get to experience Scott's .Text application Read More...
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