February 2009 - Posts
The MVP Summit starts on Sunday ( http://www.mvpsummit2009.com/ ). I want to warmly welcome all MVPs, and please let me know if you'd like to get in touch with while you're here. See you soon!
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The MIT campus map at http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg has some very, very funny messages displayed as you zoom in and out. Even despite the comment on large Seattle-based companies (thankfully Microsoft is Redmond-based), you'll surely appreciate the humor.
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Pawel recently looked into a customer report about XslCompiledTransform failing with a StackOverflowException after an upgrade to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Same stylesheet, same everything, but now the exception was showing up when it wasn't before. There
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Some data one would expect that will be around for a long time . Longevity however has some interesting challenges associated with them. At the physical level, the piece of hardward on which data lives may deteriorate to the point that the data is unrecoverable.
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Gorgeous text is something I have long been passionate about . This recent Engineering Windows 7 blog post talks about Windows 7 improvements in text rendering and typography. I love the variations on the Gabriola font, and the stuff they do with the
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Phani , master and commander of all things Astoria, has in his posession pictures of the latest ski trip... (yes, the team definitely knows how to have fun) This is just my way of publicly calling unto him to post them. Peer pressure in action!
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In case you haven't seen the ads on TV, it turns out that Kylie (4 1/2) can you show in a few seconds of ultra-cuteness how to auto-correct a picture and send it to your family. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/rookies/kylie4/
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Beth Massi has written a couple of very good posts involving ADO.NET Data Services, which I strongly encourage folks to read. Using ADO.NET Data Services (the fundamentals, great walk-through) Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8 (awesome
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Yes, yes, yes - I've been busy. I'm sure you saw that one coming. Also I've been working on things which are top-secret, yadda-yadda. To reduce my lameness level, however, I'm back to writing for 2009 and I'll begin by linking to a very nice article which
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