July 2004 - Posts


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Edward Tufte course on Presenting Data and Information by Tim Marman

I went to Presenting Data and Information yesterday, a one-day course taught by Edward Tufte . The course was based on three of his books ( Envisioning Information , Visual Display of Quantitative Information , and Visual Explanations ), each of which...

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Books and other things to occupy my free time by Tim Marman

I was hoping to meet up with Don and Scott after VSLive! on Tuesday, but the lack of concrete plans and the weather nixed that. It was raining pretty hard when I left the office at 8pm, so I took refuge momentarily at the local pub. I thought it had finally...

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Things come to a close... by Tim Marman

A lot of things came to a close over the last week or so. We delivered the first production version of my project on Friday, and I had to complete my employee reviews (we have a rather comprehensive reviews program where I have to review everyone I work...

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NY Times has RSS feeds by Tim Marman

I just noticed today that NY Times now has RSS feeds . Some googling tells me that these are recently launched . Cool. Syndicated from NY Times has RSS feeds from Loosely Coupled . Please leave comments on original post.

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Interesting: Corporate Sponsorship of Subway Stations? by Tim Marman

As heard on NY1 and seen in the NYT , the MTA is considering selling the naming rights for subway stations, bus lines, bridges and tunnels. Very interesting idea. I have mixed feelings about this, and I'm going to wait and see how it develops. On the...

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Lookout 1.2 available from Microsoft Download Center! by Tim Marman

Good news - despite (or perhaps because of) our fears , Microsoft has made the newly acquired Lookout available. Get it here . Syndicated from Lookout 1.2 available from Microsoft Download Center! from Loosely Coupled . Please leave comments on original...

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Web Session Hijacking by Tim Marman

Foiling Session Hijacking Attempts , a pretty good article in the new MSDN Magazine where Jeff Prosise walks through a solution using HTTP modules to thwart session hijacking attacks. I thought he addressed some of the risks better than Basic Web Session...

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New Security Features in ASP.NET 2.0 by Tim Marman

New Security Features in ASP.NET 2.0 : “ASP.NET 2.0 includes a number of new features to make securing your ASP.NET applications easier than before. See how you can use the new controls, tools, and APIs to control access to pages, and make it easier...

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Tablet Watch: Dell Tablet on the way by Tim Marman

It's about time, but some news over at Engadget that we should be seeing a Dell tablet for the holiday season. No detailed specifications or pictures yet, but it is apparently a 12.1" convertible running the forthcoming Tablet 2005 OS. This is obviously...

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Madden 2005 . . . gone gold! by Tim Marman

Madden 2005 has gone gold , and will be released on August 9th (pushed up from an initial Aug 15th release I think). On a related note, I just ordered a Radeon 9600. I wanted to get a bit better card, but unfortunately this was the best I could find to...
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