Archives
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The IT Crowd
So, you really liked The IT Crowd when you downloaded the first episode. But, to your dismay the channel4 site now restricts downloads to only UK visitors? You're in luck, because Google video has all the episodes just waiting for you to download:
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Flash 8 Specs in QA
Here is the latest news from JD:
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Vista a Day Late
Looks like the next Vista CTP is coming on Feb 22 instead of today:
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Stallman
Joe Stagner has some great commentary on some recent Stallman antics: http://blogs.msdn.com/joestagner/archive/2006/02/19/535099.aspx
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Windows Mobile 5.0 + EVDO = Mmmmm
So I had a couple hour drive up to big bear last week for the company's Engineering Summit. I didn't feel like listening to music, I was in the mood for some podcasts. So, I fired up my Treo 700, launched channel9 and streamed some audio and video over my phone instead of listening to the radio. It worked suprisingly well... I never would have imagined even 5 years ago that I would be able to drive down the road, streaming audio/video from the net on a cellphone instead of listening to the radio.
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SWF 8 Specs Still Incoming
JD is still working on getting the updated SWF specs out to the public. Seems to be some hang-up with the legal team still, but here is the latest related news from Emmy (via JD):
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Eggheads and the Sales Team
Thanks to Graham Elliott for passing this one along:
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Flex 2 Free
So, Adobe has announced that they will be making Flex 2 available free. A lot of this probably has to do with the fact that Laszlo has been free for quite some time now:
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Windows RSS Platform
"Hello, Walter from the land of IE Program Managers here. You might have seen or read about the RSS functionality in the user interface of IE7 Beta 2 Preview. There is a bit more to it then just letting users subscribe and read feeds from the IE7 user interface. The RSS functionality in IE7 is "powered" by the Windows RSS Platform. The Windows RSS Platform API encapsulates 3 main components: Common Feed List, Feed Synchronization Engine, and Feed Store.
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/01/522481.aspx
The RSS functionality in IE7 is built on top of these components. While we previously announced that the Windows RSS Platform would be available for Windows Vista, we are extremely pleased to announce that the Windows RSS Platform will also be available as part of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows XP 64-bit.
The Windows RSS Platform is available to any application. The idea is that applications can utilize the Windows RSS Platform to become RSS enabled without having to re-implement basic RSS building blocks. This can significantly reduce the time and effort application developers have to invest in order to integrate RSS into their programs." -
IE7 Still Randomly Hangs
Well, it took a whole 24 hours to get my first hang at least...
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SalesForce.Com Outages
I'm not sure what is worse, the fact that it was down all day, or the fact that they claim that it being down all day is a minor outage. I'd really hate to see what a major outage is.
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Treo 700w, Windows Mobile 5.0, and Microsoft's Stupidity
Ok, so one of the reasons I got this Treo 700w is so that I can sync my windows media protected music that I paid for to my phone and plug some headphones into it, rather than carrying yet another device around with me every time I go to the gym. Sounds simple enough. And it looked like it was working fine when I finally got around to installing ActiveSync 4.1, upgrading my USB drivers, etc. and clicked the button in Windows Media player to sync some music... that is, of course, until it got to file #26. Apparently, there is some idiotic bug that won't let a Windows Mobile 5 device carry more than 25 songs: