I wanted to demonstrate the SpamBayes plug-in for the school, and I realized I ought to try the screen-capture feature of the free Windows Media Encoder 9. The results were stunning. via [Jon's Radio]
I used that codec for a video on programming the Tablet PC I did last year …
more ...Neowin is reporting that Microsoft has broadened the alpha test of its next-gen Tablet PC operating system, "Lonestar," to all BetaPlace testers. Last week, Microsoft execs told us to expect Lonestar to go beta in late February or early March. The final Lonestar release target is still June.
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... this reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend a few days ago in which he asked if I knew of a company that provided technical support for LAMP-based small businesses. "Don't know of any," I said, dollar signs appearing in my eyes. (Which relates to my suspicion …
more ......It's a common theory that the reason that Apple isn't where Microsoft is today is because of their refusal to license the MacOS during the mid 80s....Sun's refusal to embrace native client side widgets is what allowed Microsoft to catch up to where Java is now with .Net....via …
more ...On my 30th birthday, I left Tina, whose hair was just beginning to grow back from her bone-marrow transplant, at 7:15 in the morning to commute into San Francisco to a job I'd get back from at 6:30 at night. On my 40th birthday, Tina and I went …
more ...Language divergence in Whidbey
more ...Language Divergence in Whidbey -- my latest column for SDTimes
more ...Don Box, in a comment, clarified that it's "that having to define a new type just to write a program [is] the daunting part," for casual programmers. Absolutely. There's a certain amount of bookkeeping that takes the casual programmer out of the task-solving "flow." This is a perfectly legitimate beef …
more ...Danny Boyd has written an open letter to Microsoft challenging them on the subject of scripting languages. More specifically, he worries about the "need to produce simple, procedural, functional web-based database applications. I'm talking here about HTML forms that post or retrieve data for editing."
Don Box, where I got …
more ...I normally like to be quite specific when reviewing software, and I'm still under NDA regarding Lonestar, but I can make some general comments safely: the handwriting recognition in Lonestar is transforming the way I write. It's a combination of three things: dramatic improvements in handwriting recognition (I doubt many …
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