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.
Blogged on a Tablet PC
more ...Tablet PC Coding Contest: \$15,000 first prize. But you're going to have to get by me to win...
more ...I won't be at the PDC until tomorrow morning, but sitting at home hitting "Get news now..." reveals that information about the Whidbey release of Visual Studio is beginning to appear: http://www.asp.net/whidbey/
more ...Talk about creeping featuritis: there I was working on adding image annotation to my ink-based blogging tool when... Well, who wants to alpha-test an Outlook 2003 Contacts to FOAF generator? If you don't know what FOAF is, this isn't the release for you. Lemme' know if you want to try …
more ...I'm expecting some heat about my latest SD Times column, where I talk about my experiences working on 3 airline reservation systems: one written in J2EE, one written in J2SE, and one written in .NET.
more ...Smart: utility software linked to a hardware device. The Migo is a \\(150 128MB USB chipdisk. That's about a \\)100 premium over what at first glance appears to be a similar device. But the Migo has a custom driver that grabs your Outlook settings, your Favorites folder, etc. Now, let's …
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