Jason Mauss' Blog Cabin

I attended a one-day course by Edward Tufte in San Francisco today where he discussed his ideas about information display. It was very thought-provoking and he is an excellent speaker. As an added bonus, all attendees got to take home his 3 books, which I plan on digging into soon, they look really interesting. If you ever get the chance to attend his courses, I would highly recommend them. All I can really say is that he's changed the way I look at statistical data and data presentation in general. Definitely worth the time and effort it took to attend. Has anyone else been to a Tufte course? His PowerPoint discussion was just brilliant.

You could be working for none other than the original "angryCoder" himself - if you're interested contact Jon Goodyear through his blog at http://aspsoft.blogs.com .

One thing I failed to mention in my last post was that once DevCampus is ready for testing, I'm going to have a 3-week Beta period before I officially put it out on the net. I know that an "invitation-only" Beta probably smacks of Google-elitism but, the truth is, I'm just one person and can only handle beta testing feedback from a certain number of testers.

November has been quite a busy month for me and it looks like things are only going to get busier until the end of January.

UPDATE: Based on comments I've added a few more images if anyone wants to use them - thanks for the feedback!

When you add a MenuStrip control to your form - the Windows Forms Designer automatically sets it as the menu for the MainMenuStrip property of your form. However, when you add a ContextMenuStrip control to your form, it does not set it as the context menu in the ContextMenuStrip property automatically. You have to go set it manually yourself. I wonder what the reason is for this - anybody know?

UPDATE: I've added versions that do not include the icons for each resolution based on feedback. Enjoy.

On Monday morning at about 5:30 AM I hopped in my car to drive into San Francisco for the Microsoft Launch event at the Moscone center. To my surprise, I actually got there in an hour. (The toll plaza area can keep you for half an hour by itself sometimes...). So I took a little morning nap in my car until 7:30 until I met up with a friend for breakfast at Mel's Drive In. While we sat by the window having breakfast, we noticed several taxi's circling the block ever couple of minutes that had "Visual Studio 2005", "SQL Server 2005", "Biztalk 2006" and "November 7th" covering them - an interesting marketing approach.