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Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:48 PM

PDC 2008 Conference Scheduling Using a Genetic Algorithm

If you read my What Do I Do post, you'll know that I'm the Content Owner for this year's PDC 2008 in Los Angeles. MIX08 is behind us, and I've just recently transitioned away from my Web GO role. This means that I can now focus 100% of my time and attention
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:21 PM

MIX08 Show Off Winners

It's hard to believe that MIX08 is over. I was involved in so many aspects of the event that it seems like I attended in some parallel universe! At least I got to see many of you there. Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry for Show Off . Thomas and
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:07 PM

SEAMonster Loosed to CodePlex

Well, I had good intentions. Ever since my first post about SEAMonster in October, 2007, I've wanted to refactor and clean-up the code for release. In the meantime, I've received many, many e-mails asking when that would happen. To everyone who has patiently
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:57 PM

What Do I Do? Top sites, MIX08, and PDC08.

A few days ago, I received the following e-mail: Help me out here. I've been reading your blog off and on for years and I can't figure out what it is you do. Your obviously involved with the PDC and MIX conferences, you send a lifesize cardboard cutout
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Monday, January 14, 2008 9:20 PM

Programming Collective Intelligence

I tend to read a lot of books , and most of them have a technical focus. Every once and awhile, I run across a gem that is timely, coherent, unique, and well written. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:59 PM

TiVo Gadget v1.0.2 Enables Video Download

I made a very minor update to my TiVo Now Playing gadget that allows you to download recorded shows to your computer. While viewing the show details window, simply click on the title to begin the download. Because the video files are protected, you'll
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:34 PM

Silverlight Slide.Show

Our friends at Vertigo have created a free application for Silverlight 1.0 called Slide.Show . If you have Silverlight installed , you should see a slide show of my photos within the body of this blog post. Most of them are from my collection of wallpaper
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:57 AM

TiVo Gadget for Vista

For awhile, I've wanted to try my hands at writing a gadget for the Windows Sidebar in Vista, but I could never come up with a project idea that was small enough to accomplish and useful enough to justify. Since we recently added two TiVo HD units to
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:23 PM

SEAMonster: A .NET-Based Seam Carving Implementation

To avoid any potential confusion, this is a personal, spare-time project that has nothing to do with the cool Seadragon technology. Before you read my post, you should watch the short 4 1/2 minute video that demonstrates an image resizing technique called
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:06 PM

PowerPoint Slides in 3D

This past week, we had an offsite brainstorming session at the new Novelty Hill • Januik winery in Woodinville to discuss our upcoming MIX08 event in Las Vegas. Jennifer Ritzinger (who still doesn't have a blog for some reason) challenged each speaker
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:12 AM

Introducing Microsoft Surface

We're announcing our first surface computing product today at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California. The product is called Microsoft Surface , and it's a table that integrates a 30-inch display that allows
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Friday, May 04, 2007 4:59 PM

MIX07 Session Recordings

It's been awhile since my last post! The group I'm in, Developer and Platform Evangelism (otherwise known as DPE), is responsible for both MIX and PDC. If you hadn't heard, our sold out MIX07 event took place earlier this week in Las Vegas, and the weeks
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Monday, April 02, 2007 3:29 PM

WPF Ribbon, 3D Conversion, and Courses

To kick things off, Actipro recently released their WPF Actipro Ribbon control which is based on the new Office 2007 UI . According to the site, their control "implements all of the core required parts of the Microsoft Ribbon UI Guidelines along with
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:24 PM

My Current Bookshelf #2

Almost three years ago, on June 25, 2004, I wrote a post titled My Current Bookshelf . It inspired a number of similar posts from other bloggers, and I received a lot of great feedback. The last set was decidedly developer-focused. This set includes some
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Friday, March 30, 2007 2:27 PM

Canon RAW Codec for Windows Vista Released

I used to be a Nikon guy, but I decided to dabble with the Canon Rebel XT a couple of years ago, and so far, I'm pleased. Most of my newer wallpaper images were taken with the Canon camera and a 60mm macro lens . Unfortunately, until now, all of those
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