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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:26 PM

A Round-up of Some Interesting Stuff

I have a need to purge a whole bunch of ‘Starred Items' in my RSS Reader. Sorry if you’ve seen them before and I’m slightly behind: WPF Karen Corby gives us a peek at the Visual State Manager for WPF . Lester releases XamlPadX 4.0 A big deal in the release
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:49 AM

Technology Review: TR35 2008

Great to see Blaise Agüera y Arcas of Photosynth fame making the TR35 list for 2008 . Blaise’s talks at TED and other events are a great source of inspiration for my own weak efforts at making technology look simple, making it relevant, and telling the
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:35 PM

Vista Ultimate on my MSI Wind (Advent)

No sooner had I said I was on the bandwagon than Ben pinged me to say he had the same machine and had been running Vista quite happily on it. That sounded positive: I've been trying hard to get used to XP again, but much, much prefer Vista. Handily I
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Friday, August 22, 2008 1:43 PM

That Photosynth Release

My feed reader seemed to have a lot of posts this morning. That’ll be the release of Photosynth then . Eileen has a great write-up of all of the useful keyboard shortcuts . Generally the reviews seem to focus on the cool factor of it. And of course it
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:44 AM

Skydiving

A quick video of my brave wife, the redoubtable LadyH, being thrown out of a plane at 10,000ft. No, I wasn’t holding the camera. If you look very closely at the take off, you can see me standing by the skip, holding Evan, shaking and weeping. Well done
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:33 AM

Remote Desktop and Mesh

On a Mesh tip, a colleague mentioned yesterday that his primary use of Mesh had been to provide remote desktop support to the family, and then Eileen mentions the same thing . As a software chap I try not to offer any support to the family, as typically
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:29 AM

On The Bandwagon

A couple of people in the office have invested in the Asus EEE PC or other "NetBooks" of one variety or another. I've been weighing up the options myself over the past few weeks, and this weekend picked up an Advent 4211 from my local PC World.
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:28 AM

Blog Awards

A bunch of Softies won awards for their blogs . Well done to Steve for being 'Best in Breed' or some such. Also, well done to fellow DPEr Mike Taulty for netting "Best Programming Blog" (or similar) and everyone else. Mike (and his blog) are
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Monday, August 18, 2008 6:02 PM

The Mesh Widens

Stevecla keeps us up to date with Mesh availability: it’s already available in the UK. If you’ve spoken to me recently you’ll know I’m very excited about Mesh – both from a Media, but also general technology perspective.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:28 AM

MicroQuest – Making a Real Map

Our test map is a bit boring and doesn't really give us the opportunity to test out the pathfinding and see it working in practice (if it does...) In this instalment, we're going to load up some XML representing a map using LINQ and then amend our WPF
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:51 AM

VS2008 SP1 Release

I think the details of the release are best covered by others, such as Katrien’s summary of all of the announcements . For my part the really interesting parts are: Release of ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria). Mike Taulty has covered this tech
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:20 AM

TechReady and Jon Landau

I’ve been in Seattle for the past week or so at our TechReady event. It’s a spectacular set-up at the convention centre with 5 days of technical content covering pretty much every technology. Hurts the brain and the eyes after a few days, but it’s really
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