For the past two years, convergence has been the theme in Microsoft languages. Visual Basic .NET was a significant break from VB6 and is a very similar experience to programming in C#; Managed C++ gained the use of visual forms design; everything worked inside Visual Studio .NET. The theme of …
more ...more ......as the drunks say, you can't fall off the floor. Anyone offering content free gains an advantage that can't be beaten, only matched, because the competitive answer to free -- "I'll pay you to read my weblog!" -- is unsupportable over the long haul....In a world of free content, even the …
I just visited Text America's PDC Photoblog and saw Don Box's face smiling out at me. I wonder how to make photo blogs more useful. Thanks to those of you who posted photos. via [The Scobleizer Weblog]
This is why I ended up generating FOAF from Outlook the other day …
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more ...[The 1.7 refers to a new version of the Tablet PC SDK]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"}. ... [Lonestar]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"} is the codename for a Tablet PC project that should be released in the first half of 2004....and Lonestar is not supposed to be "version 2.0" anyway …
It's in the nature of BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) to be frustrating. No sooner does the ice break than the proctor comes in and announces that the last bus to the hotels leaves in 10 minutes. Oh well...
The "Alternate Programming Languages" BoF gathered a great group, but …
more ...strenuous "We have not -announced any time for new Tablet PC O's: Havens gone to the Allchin tape to confirm or deny.
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more ...Just got confirmed that my security problems having my code deploy as "smart clients Tiepin a web Page) is a known problen in The current Tablet SDK. Thank God-I was, like, "Gee, maybe I done -understand smart clients." Patched in The 1.7 SDK coming in beta RSN.
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more ...Just got a demo of the new "Dos" shell in Longhorn. Its a great idea, hugely scriptable and based on unix-typecommand piping. But instead of text being piped, You get real objects, pumped to You asynchronously, Beautiful piece of code.
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more ...Tablet PC Coding Contest: \$15,000 first prize. But you're going to have to get by me to win...
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