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Watch Channel9 Videos on your TV

Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 3:42 PM by YAG
Pretty cool. I have my XBOX 360 playing Hulu, YouTube and other videos via MediaMall's PlayOn software. Channel9 posted the source code to a plugin that lets you watch C9 videos, screencasts, etc., via the TV too. The video is pretty clear - I could see Read More...
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Cool! VPC and USB

Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:34 PM by YAG
Joe Homnick has an awesome blog entry on keeping your VPCs on a USB key (your undo drive on your hard disc). He says that he's getting great performance, and it's easy to keep your VPCs with you wherever you go. Great for training classes. Check it out Read More...
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To Linq or Not To Linq, that is the question...

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 4:20 PM by YAG
Jim Wooley just posted a great entry on his ThinqLinq site. It involves using Linq to XML and VB9's XML Literals to query Shakespeare's plays. He first joins all the plays on his drive together into one big XML file and then gets the top 50 characters Read More...
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Community-based music producing

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 9:47 AM by YAG
Many years ago I saw Jill Sobule do a show - and I enjoyed her sense of humor and stage presence. Bought a few of her CDs to check them out. Anyway, was looking around today and found this site . It's called Jill's Next Record! and asks the community Read More...
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For your weekend programming theory watching pleasure...

Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 3:14 PM by YAG
There's a new video on Channel 9 about functional programming. Erik spends most of it on his whiteboard. Make sure you're in a quiet room for an hour. <g> Read More...
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Volta preview is released

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:25 PM by YAG
Erik Meijer and I have discussed Volta a number of times - very exciting to see it released on Live Labs . A few links that should be interesting: Erik's announcement post on LTU. The Volta team blog Wes' blog - with a "Hello, World" walkthrough HarishK's Read More...
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Did Blogs save Microsoft?

Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 5:02 PM by YAG
Here's a great post about blogging and its usefulness in corporations. The quote I wanted to point out: What did Microsoft do? I don't know if they had it before, but it takes certain organizational cultural values. It's not about process, or rules. In Read More...
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Cool new social Silverlight game: Zero Gravity

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:18 PM by YAG
Tim Heuer has been working with a team on testing out Silverlight. They created a game called Zero Gravity . It's unbelievably addictive. The music won't leave my head... <g> Anyway, they've included support for a number of social networking sites Read More...
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This is pretty cool!

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:35 PM by YAG
Here's a blog entry (with video) by someone who hooked up a web cam to have one computer play another in pong - totally thru the camera capture. Really a lot of fun to look at. Nice job, Ashish! Read More...
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They were where?

Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 2:32 PM by YAG
Took this off the front page of MSN today. I love this stuff... <g> I just picture the judge slapping vonage in the middle of a junction... <g> Read More...
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An amazing video on the developing world

Posted Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:22 AM by YAG
This is an amazing video - showing how to present data to people to explain what's happening in the world and how many of our preconceptions are based on old information. This is from the TED conference in 2006, and via Krzysztof's blog . Read More...
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Interview with Erik Meijer

Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 2:49 PM by YAG
One of the best things about working on the Linq project was getting to work and have dinner with Erik Meijer . He's not only incredibly smart - but a fun person to hang out with. Mary Jo Foley has an interview with him in Redmond Developer News . Read More...
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Web 2.0, Generation Y and a new blog

Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:43 PM by YAG
Sean O'Driscoll has a new blog that I think will be a really good one. Sean is the General Manager of Community Support and MVP, and I work closely with him and his team. He has a post up on community transparency and the driving forces behind it. He Read More...
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Monarch v9 ships - a trip down memory lane

Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:53 PM by YAG
Doug points out the fact that Datawatch has shipped version 9 of Monarch and talks about his memory of the product. I remember it well also. I was on Compuserve then and someone posted a request for beta testers of a new tool that converted reports to Read More...
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Theory of Constraints and TDD

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 4:37 PM by YAG
While on my recent trip I was doing a lot of talking about Test Driven Development and Agile approaches in general. One night I was having dinner with someone and I was introducing him to Eliyahu Goldratt and his Theory of Constraints . In his book The Read More...
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