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Richard Godfrey

Software Architecture, Engineering and Stuff

August 2004 - Posts

WinFX to come to W2K3 and XP too
So Avalon and Indigo bits of WinFX will be made available for XP and Windows Server 2003, Longhorn client will be out sometime in 2006 and WinFS will come sometime afterwards. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Aug04/08-27Target2006PR.asp Read More...
New Visual Studio Team System Community Preview... coming soon
At TechEd Europe this year I had the pleasure of spending most of my time on the Visual Studio Team System Ask the Experts stand. As we handed out the first VSTS beta bits there we were predicting a new community preview sometime in August/September. Read More...
Time gentlemen please
Just heard a lovely quote (from a TV programme that Mrs G was watching) which I can't wait to try out for myself when I next have a meeting about a project which is over-running due to scope-creep... "Time is just nature's way of making sure everything Read More...
Roll up, roll up - Hot off the press...
The latest copy of the Architect Journal has just hit the MSDN shelves. Go on, you deserve it :-) http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj3intro.asp Read More...
The camera never lies (2)
Kevin asked to see the photo I mentioned in the last post. Here goes... http://www.richardgodfrey.co.uk/home/gallery/albums/1/1.aspx Read More...
The camera never lies
Last time I was over in Seattle I popped into the company shop and bought a copy of Digital Image Pro 9. Well, it blew me away yesterday when chose a photo of my kids holding arms and decided to edit out the eldest's legs to leave her hovering in mid Read More...
Patching Praise...
Nice to see some praise for the efforts we're putting into the trustworth computing stuff from one of the guys who is really in a position to comment. From http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39162560,00.htm ... [David] Litchfield Read More...
Help for partners when pulling bids together
When talking to partners I often get asked about where they can go for information to support bids they are pulling together. Some recent good news is that Microsoft UK have created a site to help provide just this kind of information, including: Microsoft Read More...
Nice all-round smart client examples
A while ago Lester Madden gave me a DVD he and some other folks have been working on called We Rock 247.Net. It sat on the shelf for a few weeks, but I dusted it off and took a look the other day. If you're into building smart client apps using .NET, Read More...
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