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Read weblogs.asp.net on your WAP-enabled mobile phone
My friend, Russell Pooley has come up with a *sweet* WAP gateway that consumes the weblogs.asp.net RSS and makes it available over a WAP-enabled phone, like my shiny new Orange SPV E200.
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I'm not a big fan of status bars...
...I find them tricky to interact with programatically, and no one ever looks at them anyway, but this morning, this quote from Chris Sells' Windows Forms Programming in C# really ticked me:
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High resolution timer
Windows' basic timing APIs tend to be inaccurate - sometimes by up to 15ms or so. Peter Bromberg has an article on Egg Head Cafe on High Precision Code Timing in .NET. The article includes a simple class that uses Windows' performance monitoring APIs to create a super accurate timer.
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"Designed for Windows XP" Application Specificiation
I've learned a *lot* about good Windows application design from reading the specification that an app must adhere to to get the “Designed for Windows XP” logo.
http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/software/default.mspx