David Findley's Blog
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LearnExpression.com is live.
We recently launched our video tutorial site for Expression Web Designer. Dustin, our resident graphic artist is pumping out the video tutorials as well as designing the site using the tool. It's good to have some how to vids from a designers point of view. Watch this site throughout 2007 as he continues to expand the content.
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Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG
Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ rather than LINQ to SQL). I'm still not sure how all this got packed into a little over 2 hours. :)
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Parallels adds "Express Windows Installation"
I just ran across this over on parallels site:
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Using IronPython for Dynamic Expressions.
We recently had this question posted to our forums over at LVS:
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Suggestions for distributing CTPs as VirtualPC images
I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to release CTPs in the future here are a few suggestions:
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ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (excitement builds)
I just downloaded beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX today. Wow! Lots and lots of changes. The type system has been greatly simplified. I like this. The move to prototypes over closures was a good decision. The core scripts are much easier to read and comprehend as well. The CTP download has been a 404 for me this evening so I haven't had a chance to dive into it.
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What's in a name? The developer vs programmer non-issue.
I remember seeing the "Developers vs Programmers" article on digg recently. I did think at the time that it was a bit over the top. Mike has managed to capture my exact feelings on this subject in this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/miked/archive/2006/10/13/_2200_Developers_2200_-and-_2200_Programmers_2200_.aspx
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Apple finally delivers some of my most wanted features...
Looks like the new iTunes will have the cover art browsing that I've been wanting. Also the iPods (and iTunes a guess) now support gapless playback. I have alot of music that really needs this (Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Rush etc...)
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Great interview on IronPython...
I just watched this interview on IronPython: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/screenroom/ironpython_flv.html
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Convert Thunderbird Email to Windows Mail
I've been converting my thunderbird email boxes to Windows Mail on Vista. To do this you need to use a tool that convert the mbox format to .eml format. I found this free one that seems to work pretty well: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php