Dontclick.it: Fascinating for Tablet developers

http://www.dontclick.it/ shows how effective a clickless interface can be.

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Literate Programming in .NET

DevX has posted an article that I am really pretty proud of: a literate programming tool for .NET using Microsoft's Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. By using Word styles and embedding XML tags, you can label your code fragments in a Word document as compilable (including specifying assembly targets …

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Loren starts showing ink code comments

Loren Heiny is has begun posting screenshots from his work developing IDE plug-ins allowing inked comments to be made on source code. Personally, I think this is a tremendous use of the Tablet. DevX has just put up my article on literate programming in .NET using Word (in other words …

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Arrggghghhh!!! Motion ships small-factor Tablet PC while my check for a full-size is in the mail!

Oh, I am freakin' killing myself. I bought an M1400 last freakin' week in order to get a ViewAnywhere screen and Motion ships an 8” diagonal-screen Tablet. I am so severely bummed words can't express...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I live in Hawaii, see …

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tcserver.exe memory leak fixed!

The most anticipated patch in Tablet PC OS history is now available!

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Movie Meme: Enjoyment of Top-Grossing Movies

Via http://www.agileprogrammer.com/dotnetguy/archive/2005/07/05/5488.aspx  *Italicize* the ones you've seen and **Bold** the ones you actually liked.

1. Titanic (1997) - \$600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) - \$460,935,665
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - \$434,949,459
4. Star Wars: Episode …

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Domain-Specific Language for To-Do Items

So at first you think:

To_Do_Item ::= Done Item
Done ::= boolean
Item ::= String

But then you think:

To_Do_Item ::= Done Item Due
Due ::= DateTime

And then you think:

Due ::= DateTime | RecurrencePattern | DatePattern
DatePattern -- “next Tuesday” “3rd Fridays of the Month” etc...

And you're also thinking:

To_Do_Item ::= ~~Done~~ Status Item
Status ::= Done | Pending …

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Panda Ate My Notepad

My antivirus software just deleted notepad.exe, saying it was adware. I went to Panda's Website to complain / alert them and their support site is filled with broken ASP.NET code. Boy, that really ups my faith in my antivirus solution...

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GooglePal -- Micropayment Breakthrough?

Now that news of Google Payment Corp is public, it's time for rampant speculation, such as: Will people trust Google to be the infrastructure key to micropayments? They're in an excellent position to provide the technology.

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Pixies at Dunkin' Donuts Folkfest

Doesn't that headline read like computer-generated nonsense? And yet, it's true. via [Jepstone.net]

Dang! Two weeks before I'm doing a NY-Boston trip, too.

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