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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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Windows Vista border issue and SP2

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:15 AM by YAG
We've figured out the Vista border issue (we think). We couldn't reproduce it here, but Jim Slater noted that it happens for him when he changes the bordertype in the init. As Calvin mentioned in these blog entries: Windows Vista Aero BorderStyle Paint Read More...
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SP2 comments

Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:10 AM by YAG
I've been reading the comments here and on some sites about SP2. I wanted to give my point of view about it and ask for a few things from the community. Milind, Calvin, Aiwen and I have been going thru the reports and trying to reproduce them here on Read More...
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Updated SP2 now online

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:53 AM by YAG
It may take around a 1/2 hour to propogate to all the servers, but it's now online. Read More...
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Whoops!

Posted Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:02 PM by YAG
As some of you have noticed, we had a bug in our SP2 release. We forgot to update the file with the splash screen in it. Nice getting back online to messages about it. My thanks to those of you who mentioned it nicely. <g> Anyway, Milind and I have Read More...
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Free DBI Controls with VFP9 SP2

Posted Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:12 PM by YAG
Now that SP2 is out, you can go ahead and download the free ActiveX controls being made available by our friends at DBI. The controls include the following: ctTray Offers developers direct access to the standard Windows System tray for presentation of Read More...
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Devteach in Vancouver and Party with Palermo

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 3:41 PM by YAG
I'll be speaking on Silverlight at Devteach in Vancouver the week of November 26th. Devteach is an awesome conference - and this year has a full track on XNA - which should be interesting. And improving on things this year, Jeff Palermo is throwing one Read More...
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VFP9 SP2 Ships!

Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:18 PM by YAG
As stated in the latest monthly letter , we just shipped Service Pack 2 (SP2) for VFP 9! You can download it here . We've also made the bug list available . The source code to the VFP and VB.NET components will be made available next week. My thanks to Read More...
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German VFP, SQL Server and .NET conference in October

Posted Saturday, September 08, 2007 10:51 AM by YAG
I'll be speaking at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany on November 8-10. I'll be keynoting the VFP conference and doing a session on VB.NET (including things like LINQ, Silverlight and future releases). This is one of my all time favorite conferences 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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