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Friday, August 25, 2006 4:02 PM

Hitting the WPF Curve (a.k.a. Falling off the WPF Cliff)

Learning WPF can be hard. Even if you have experience with Windows Forms or SWING, many concepts in WPF/XAML are very different and require a total brainwash before you can even put a button on a form. In his blog, Karsten calls this the WPF Curve and
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:02 AM

SPARK UX 1 - 3 Oct, Half Moon Bay, CA

SPARK UX the two faces of design A FORUM TO EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF ARCHITECTURE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN Too often today, software products and interactive experiences fall short of their potential because the user experience does not serve the interests
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:54 AM

Launching Applications in Vista 5472

Scott has a great post about replacing “start/run” to launch applications quickly – I’ve used a number of the tools he lists in the past to find optimal ways of launching applications. One of the options he does miss however is the new start menu in Vista,
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:57 AM

Windows Vista 5472 - First Impressions

I took the leap yesterday and installed Vista (5472) and Office 12 (4228) on my main machine (a Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet). Although it's still been less than 24 hours, I've been very impressed so far. Both builds seem very stable and already I'm seeing
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Sunday, June 04, 2006 2:14 PM

Implementing Getting Things Done using Outlook 2007

Last week, I made the switch from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Beta 2. Prior to the upgrade I was organizing my “stuff to do” using David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology and using the NetCentrics GTD Add In for Outlook. Unfortunately, as I
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Friday, May 19, 2006 2:36 PM

Putting the User back into SOA - my first ARCast!

After the US NAF (National Architect Forum) last month, I sat down with Ron Jacobs to record my very first ARCast . The topic was "Putting the User back into SOA" - you can listen to it here .
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Friday, May 19, 2006 2:32 PM

Architecture Journal - now in 8 languages!

Issue #7 of the Architecture Journal is now available in 8 languages (English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Simplifed Chinese, Japanese and Korean). To access these in PDF format, visit http://www.architecturejournal.net and select the
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:35 AM

Cliff Atkinson / Beyond Bullet Points

Cliff Atkinson is my new hero. For those that don't know, Cliff put together an MS Press book called Beyond Bullet Points . In the book, he describes a new way of compiling and putting together presentations using PowerPoint (without bullet points!).
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Monday, March 13, 2006 8:50 PM

T-Mobile MDA

A couple of weeks ago I switched from Verizon Wireless to T-Mobile, and at the same time had the opportunity to pick up a new cell phone. After a lot of deliberation I went with the T-Mobile MDA Vario . This is the first PocketPC phone I've owned since
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Monday, March 13, 2006 8:42 PM

"Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API"

I have a Toshiba Tecra M4 with 2Gb of RAM. I've had the machine for a while now and every so often, when I went to hibernate I would see a message saying "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API" (and the machine would only go into standby).
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:34 PM

5 Options for Backing Up My Home PC - Part II

I would like to say thanks to everyone that submitted comments to my previous post. This is what I ended up with over the weekend: 1. I went out and found an external Maxtor USB 300Gb Hard Disk at Fry's for $229. At the rate we are adding photos and videos
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Friday, January 20, 2006 10:49 PM

5 Options for Backing Up My Home PC

I'm recovering from losing both the power-supply and hard disk of my home PC after we just moved house. I'll cut a long story short by saying that there was a loud bang and smoke coming out of my Shuttle XPC after I unpacked it from moving. After a couple
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Monday, December 12, 2005 9:58 AM

Is this what they mean by being "Service Oriented"?

Wes (formerly from webMethods) forwarded me this snapshot from a shopping mall in TX. (Apparently "Simon" is a retail management company :-)
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Monday, November 21, 2005 8:56 PM

Beta of Scrum Add-In for VSTS available

A few guys at Conchango (for whom I used to work :-) have created a Scrum plug-in for VSTS. Good reading if you are interested in agile development. http://blogs.conchango.com/howardvanrooijen/default.aspx
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Saturday, September 10, 2005 4:48 PM

Creating Word documents on IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic

Running IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic or another J2EE application server? Wish you could generate server-side Microsoft Word documents without any third party add-ins? With Microsoft Office 2003 and an XML reference schema called WordML, you can do this
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