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WinFX Runtime Components and Windows Vista Beta 1 Available

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:22 AM by johnmont
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Shareware Starter Kit

Posted Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:22 AM by johnmont
Dan got picked up by Mary Jo . This project has been a total labor of love for Dan, whose full time job is C# product manager. The theory we had behind this Starter Kit was that the "micro ISV" was in decline due in part to the difficulty of getting paid Read More...
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A Three-Hour Walk

Posted Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:09 AM by johnmont
Walking the Seattle Night and Day Challenge. Read More...
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Drywall Screws Work on Drywall: Who Knew?

Posted Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:52 AM by johnmont
Last weekend, I spent two days helping out a local charity, L'Arche Seattle . My version of helping is to go over and do some of the various light construction projects they need. A couple of months ago, for instance, I cut through a load-bearing wall Read More...
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More Headlines to Love: "China to send pig sperm to space"

Posted Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:51 AM by johnmont
Check out the story , especially the picture. Read More...
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Brad Evidently Needs a Job

Posted Friday, July 15, 2005 9:56 AM by johnmont
Brad Abrams seems to want a job . I do have openings, but they're going fast. Read More...
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Another Amsterdam Bathroom Observation

Posted Monday, July 04, 2005 11:08 PM by johnmont
At the RAI, I noticed another thing in the bathroom. They have created a peculiar hybrid hand-drying machine. It uses paper (like paper towel) but puts it on a giant loop (like those towel rollers some bathrooms have), so you get the worst of both experiences: Read More...
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The Fly

Posted Monday, July 04, 2005 8:19 AM by johnmont
I went to the men's room here at the RAI in Amsterdam. As I stood before the urinal, I looked down. There was a fly in the urinal. Not on the urinal, but actually etched into the porcelain in black ink. Ugh. Read More...
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Scalable User Experiences

Posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:56 PM by johnmont
I had a thought on the plane on the way over after we announced Atlas . The past ten years in programming has seen the rise of a huge number of ways of building similar-looking applications – from using VB6 to build a rich client experience, to dynamic Read More...
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Aaah, Amsterdam!

Posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:51 PM by johnmont
Whenever I arrive at a new location, I want to check it out. Primarily, I want to know where my hotel is, and where my meetings are. To accomplish this, I've been trying to bend MSN Maps to my will (Google Maps doesn't have enough European coverage). Read More...
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