Archives
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Silverlight gets Photosynth
Photosynth (using the Seadragon technology) has been added to Silverlight. (announced at MIX07)
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MIX07 - Keynote
Live webcast is available here.
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[MIX07] Dinner with Miguel, Guitar Hero defeat by Hanselman
Phil Haack and I drove out Sunday afternoon. We met up with Miguel de Icaza and talked for a long time. As time went on, we added John Osborn (senior editor at O'Reilly) and Eric Kemp (Rob's right hand man on SubSonic) to the party, and headed to dinner.
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Going to MIX? Get Twitter and Twitteroo!
Twitter is a simple program which lets you see what all your friends are up to - you enter a short message and all your "followers" get the update. Normally I don't care what all my friends are doing, but this kind of thing is perfect for a conference. The MIX conference folks have set up a Twitter account, so by "befriending" the MIX07 account you can get hooked up with other conference attendees.
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Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror) on DotNetRocks
Jeff Atwood's inteview on DotNetRocks is out. I've listened to every single episode - over 230 of them - and say this makes my top ten. Excellent show, and worth the listen. -
Search queries to find Silverlight and XBAPs apps
Silverlight and XBAP serve the same purpose, but in different ways. Both allow for viewing for WPF (XAML) based applications in a browser. Silverlight is a self-contained, cross-browser plugin which supports a subset of the .NET framework, while an XBAP (XAML Browser Application) requires that WPF be installed on the host operating system.
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The 9 things Microsoft SHOULD be announcing next week at MIX07 (but won't)
Microsoft has said they'll have some kind of big surprise to announce next week at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas. If you want to hear some good guesses as to what will actually be announced, you've come to the wrong place. If you'd like some good guesses, try the following: - Miguel de Icaza - speculation on MIX07, including a dynamic language runtime
- Mary Jo Foley - Microsoft to roll out dynamic-language layer for .Net
- InternetExplorer8 - General info on what's known about IE8
- Channel9 Forums - Speculation about dev.live.com updates
But accuracy's not what this post is about. No, this is good old armchair quarterback time. I'm not going to talk about idealistic things like firing half the marketing and legal departments, I'm going to focus on product direction and long term vision things. Ray, if you've been procrastinating on your keynote, I've put together a few talking points for you. Style point: remember that the great speakers of history were men of passion. Wave your arms a lot and bang on the podium.
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SQL Puzzle #2 - Paging through a table with GO 10
I just wrote about using GO 10 to execute a T-SQL batch 10 times in SQL Server Management Studio. Could you use it to page through data?
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[SQL] Using 'GO 100' to execute a batch 100 times
The GO statement is used by SQL Server as a batch terminator. It's recognized by by tools which run scripts like SSMS, SMO, and SQLCMD, but it's not technically T-SQL. SQL Server 2005 added a new little trick to the GO command which lets you specify a number of times to execute the batch: GO 10
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First draft of our ASP.NET book is done. Whew!
You wouldn't know it from the recent posts on my blog, but I've been writing a lot lately. Last week I turned in the first draft for the final chapter of the book I'm co-writing with Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, and K. Scott Allen. It's an ASP.NET "tips and tricks" book, but I think the content is a little different than most cookbook style programming books. The information is geared to strong intermediate to advanced developers, and the topics include things like binary content, search engine optimization, troubleshooting slow queries, log4net, ASP.NET AJAX, etc. -
Looking forward to SilverlightGallery.com
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SubSonic 2.0: Kick the tires on Beta 1!
SubSonic 2.0 (the zero code data access layer) just hit Beta 1 today. Download it, marvel at all the cool new features, and get your feedback in quickly because they're planning a really short beta phase with a final release as early as next Wednesday.