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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:37 PM

New hotness, random musings

Interacting with 2D on 3D in WPF Holy hotness! Check out details on the WPF3D Blog Check out the Channel9 interview Check out the CodePlex project (and download the toys ) Go build games for your XBOX Too many links. A great write-up on FierceDeveloper
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:10 PM

I'm going to be posting to my blog a lot more.

Windows Live Writer just went beta. Hot!
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Saturday, August 05, 2006 6:16 PM

KevinButton, etc.

KevinButton Robby and I were hanging out at TechEd in Boston. Randomly I say, “Hey, we should put more people in buttons.” Long story short, Robby hacks away on some XAML and gets laughs at my expense during his talk. Back in Redmond, Robby shows the
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:48 PM

Hello Tuesday

Control Licensing in Cider (WPF designer for VS) James provides some great information on supporting licensing for controls in WPF. Jamie is blogging like a mad man Jamie is going through some old posts by Bea and updating them for recent bits. He also
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Monday, July 24, 2006 9:19 PM

Random musings.

July CTP Bag-O-Tricks Wow! People seem to be enjoying it...or at least downloading it. Let me know what you think. (I don't know what to do about adding more samples, though. What comes after eleventy ?) Charles is Having Fun Animated drawing brushed
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Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:14 PM

IE 7: Cool to Wicked Cool

I’ve been happily crankin’ along with IE 7 Beta2 for a while now. I just upgraded to IE7 Beta3 . Wow! Demonstrably faster. I just feels tight and crisp. Go download...quick...now... FYI: make sure you un-install any previous IE7 Betas before you try this
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:26 PM

Reasons to submit error reports

Punish your Microsoft developer Okay, so submitting bug reports isn't quite this gratifying, but I know from a lot of first-hand experience that these reports are amazingly helpful. We feel your pain...if not literally.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:55 AM

Save the Internet!

In general, I avoid political discussion like the plague on my work blog, but since Microsoft has already taken a stand on this, I thought I’d throw my hat in. <Rant Disclaimer=”The following rant is solely my opinion and not that of my employer.”>
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:18 AM

In other news...

Our friends from Max have been busy. Not only are they cranking away at a beautiful WinFX app, but they're taking time to blog about their adventures. Ben has blogged about IScrollInfo [ Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ]. If you are making your own panel and
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:59 AM

Most powerful wizard?

I ran into my good friend Charlie on the bus tonight. Not only is Charlie a great Ultimate Frisbee player, but he's also a PM on the Excel team. Not only did Charlie introduce me to the wonder that is the pivot table in Excel, he also told me that the
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:48 PM

Great MSFT blogs not on blogs.msdn.com

Like many people, I subscribe to the agregate MSDN RSS feed to get all feeds from Microsoft. Except, there are at least a few (and probably more) amazing blogs from other softies that are not on MSDN. If you are not reading these guys, you should be.
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Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:14 AM

April 19-25 is TV-Turnoff Week

April 19-25 is TV-Turnoff Week. (CNN has an article .) When I first moved out to Seattle in the summer of 2002, I spent a month in Microsoft-provided temp housing. I'd come home from work and spend 2 hours vegging in front of the TV. When I got my apartment
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Monday, January 19, 2004 8:54 PM

Master the Skills of Influence and Persuasion

An article I'd never expect to find on a Microsoft site, but I guess it's just more proof we're a big company. Master the Skills of Influence and Persuasion The overview: How do top salesmen and leaders persuade others to act and motivate people to achieve?
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:22 AM

Hey, Don't knock Iowa

I grew up in Iowa [close to Okoboji ]. I've done my share of knocking my home state, how I'd never live there, etc. Well it turns out that Fast Company disagrees. It turns out that Des Moines, IA [the state capitol] is the best place to work in the US
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