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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:38 AM

Caring for GUIDs

I've been meddling with WIX for a week now, which is all new to me. I'm forming a good opinion of it, though there is an awful lot to learn. It's straightforward to build simple installers for typical .NET apps, or websites. Installing Votive so that
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Monday, June 25, 2007 5:58 AM

Surviving the Digigirlz

I barely made it out alive, but the first UK Digigirlz day seemed to be a success. You can see some pictures of the tough crowd below and an apprehensive Scott and David waiting for our bit: As Eileen says , it's the volume levels that are staggering.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:38 AM

Digigirlz and technical leadership

This Friday sees the first Digigirlz day in the UK. I'll be getting involved and probably presenting on the day, which I always look forward to. Right now, I have a work experience student in the lab who is working with XNA Game Studio (seems to be enjoying
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:03 AM

Job 2x2

Part of my role is to "Synthesise and Simplify" concepts and so on. As you can imagine then, I'm a big fan of the 2x2 matrix to describe pretty much anything. James has an interesting post with a 2x2 matrix (time vs location) to describe jobs. Are you
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:55 AM

BT SDK

I also had a look at the BT SDK in the last week. Wow! This is a shining example of a) some great functionality to exploit and b) a really well produced SDK, samples and service package. What does it do? Take a look at the site, but essentially it allows
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:54 AM

Working with MCML

It's a bit like working with WPF when you're drunk... it's sort of the same concepts, but a bit different, and confusing, and I can't quite do what I think I can. Slightly more helpful comment now (hopefull). Actually, I didn't expect to get a lot out
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