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introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite
At the 2008 PDC, Kam Vedbrat and I introduced two brand new DirectX APIs, to be included in Windows 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite. Direct2D is geared towards high-quality vector and bitmap graphics, with the performance characteristics of hardware-acceleration Read More...
Posted 02 November 08 12:55 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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C# for dynamic programming!
Anders Hejlsberg demonstrated the dynamic programming features of C# 4.0. Very cool was C# calling JavaScript code without extra casts, calls to Invoke, and the like -- just straight function calls in C# that happen to be implemented in JavaScript. Even Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 12:10 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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Windows Azure
PDC 2008 day 1: Ray Ozzie unveiled " Windows Azure ", our operating system for the cloud. After years of thinking of "operating system" as something that runs a computer, it's weird to think about the meaning of the term with respect to a large set of Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:36 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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at the PDC again
I'm back in Los Angeles for this year's PDC. It was a long shot, given that the group I happen to be on is sending a smaller percentage of people to the PDC than the WPF team did back in '05, but thankfully I have an opportunity to present, which means Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:08 by lblanco | 2 Comments   
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taking the bus
Microsoft has been offering bus service in Redmond for about a year now. The idea is that the bus has a dedicated, direct route from close to your house to the Microsoft campus and back, with no stops in between, and that the route times are not only Read More...
Posted 16 October 08 09:32 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
Windows 7 will be called... "Windows 7"
It seems we've settled on an official name for the next version of Windows, codenamed Windows 7, and that name is (drumroll...) " Windows 7 ". Read More...
Posted 14 October 08 10:01 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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in LA again
Los Angeles, here I come again. The conference is WinHEC 2007, and this time I'll be participating as a speaker, presenting an overview of the graphics architecture in Windows Vista. For people who have seen the graphics overview presentation last year, Read More...
Posted 12 May 07 11:40 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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where did Leo go?
It's been just over seven months since my last post, so I'm happy to inform that reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated :). What's been going on this whole time? Since the 2005 PDC I've been very busy getting Windows Vista (and, more specifically, Read More...
Posted 24 April 06 08:05 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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PDC recap
It got crazy at the PDC in terms of hours -- I was getting in by 8am, wrapping up at 11pm, and starting over at 8am the next day. That taxed my blogging abilities, so I never put together a "day four" or "day five". The theme for the two days was "answering Read More...
Posted 16 September 05 09:30 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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WPF forum open for business
If you've been posting to microsoft.windows.developer.winfx.avalon then you should check out the brand-new MSDN forum for Windows Presentation Foundation . The forum lets us do a couple of extra things we can't do with newsgroups, such as maintain ratings, Read More...
Posted 15 September 05 09:54 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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day three at the PDC
Another day at the PDC, another set of exciting events. I started the day early again, though we made it to the morning's keynote a couple of minutes late. We did see, however, the introduction and demonstration of various designer tools, including the Read More...
Posted 15 September 05 01:12 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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day two at the PDC
Though this was my second day at the event, it was actually the first full official day of the PDC, with everything fully staffed and attended. It was a packed day, with lots of great stuff to talk about. Let me start at the top. Opening keynotes The Read More...
Posted 13 September 05 10:33 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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day one at the PDC
Today I registered and got my badge at the PDC. The conference doesn't officially start until tomorrow (other than the "pre-conference" sessions), but several Microsofties were at the Convention Center to make sure everything is set up and ready to go. Read More...
Posted 12 September 05 11:32 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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in LA for the PDC
It'd been nice and warm in Redmond right up until this past week. This morning it was pouring rain. Now, some of you may know Seattle as the city where it rains nine months out of the year, but what's not necessarily generally known is that the constant Read More...
Posted 10 September 05 10:26 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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se o Pablo pode, eu também posso :-) (PDC05)
Hoje descobri que Pablo Fernicola está escrevendo o seu blog em não um, não dois, mas três idiomas -- e um deles é o português! E por que não? A gente pode morar nos Estados Unidos, mas têm muitos brasileiros aqui (aliás, "aqui" é o mundo todo quando Read More...
Posted 10 September 05 12:02 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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