September 2005 - Posts

Manuel is Blogging!
26 September 05 12:09 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Manuel Clement is a designer on the Sparkle team. He's set up shop over at MSN Spaces. Read More...

scratchy nano
26 September 05 12:06 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Looks like I'm not the only one who's nano screen scratched up too quickly. News.com seems to indicate that it's happening a lot more frequently than anyone wanted... Read More...

CTP Madness
22 September 05 11:50 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

If you aren't exactly sure what versions of Avalon, winfx, windows vista, and visual studio work with the system you're trying to put together, or are compatible with one another, this web page is for you. http://channel9.msdn.com/ctpmadness The good Read More...

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nano scratches
20 September 05 12:55 AM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

so it seems the one downside of being an ipod owner is that the screen scratches super-easily. since I've had the thing less than two weeks... and there's not yet a cover available for it, any suggestions about scratch remover? I found this product ... Read More...

PDC2005 Impressions
20 September 05 12:12 AM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Wow - what a week at PDC! Lots to summarize from the week. The keynotes were all great! I was especially proud of the Windows Vista demo on day 1. The demo opened with three of my features - thumbnail-previews in the taskbar, filp, and flip3d! Scoble Read More...

love that nano
12 September 05 11:56 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Scoble points out that people are excited about the new ipod nano. I got one on Friday at the University Villiage Apple Store in Seattle. It was actually the last 4GB one they had in stock. It's everything I wanted that Rio to be in terms of usefulness Read More...

Going to PDC!
10 September 05 12:59 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Next Monday, I'll fly down to Los Angeles for PDC05! I'll be presenting on some of the graphics capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) - my talk specifically covers 2d & 3d graphics, and some of our text api's and how they can be Read More...

New Avalon Videos on Channel Nine!
07 September 05 08:51 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

If you're heading to PDC to learn about Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as "Avalon"), these videos will give you a nice introduction / preview to what you're going to see at the conference: Introduction to XAML Databinding in Windows Presentation Read More...