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micro.isv - a detour
For over a year now I have been working in my spare time on a digital asset management system, I have been very serious about this and did quite a bit of competitive research out of the gate which I have refined over time. It got the to point where Outlook notes and scratch pads hobbled together where getting out of hand so I spent a few hours throwing something together to manage the information. made changes, spent more hours (big for loop here) and after way too many hours had something respectable for managing the information. I have showed this to a few people and got a pretty curious reaction, instead of "that’s nice" or "good idea" the response was more like, "why aren’t you selling that?"
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OT: JibJab
Noticed today that the JibJab site is running ASP.NET and they have a hilarious new video out. Check it out sometime.
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New Rule and Old Rule
New Rule (for blogging on this site):
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VS2005 RC is here
I just noticed that the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2005 is on MSDN downloads!
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Where is the real interface?
OK, I went and downloaded Vista Beta 1 and played for a while. There are some nice things but all in all incremental improvements over XP. My beef though is with the interface and the hype. For years I heard about this super secret 3d interface being developed, it was supposed to make OSX users jealous and makes users want to run out and buy the product when released.
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443 <--> 80 - Seamlessly moving requests in and out of SSL
Sometimes you feel secure, sometimes you don’t. Better put, sometimes a page needs to be secured and sometimes it does not.
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AppleMatters: How Microsoft Will Die...
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Address to Microsoft and The Development Community
Wrote this a few years back; I never posted it for some reason. I have been working on my blog entry for the PDC contest which is a parody of the Gettysburg Address and I thought I would post this for laughs.
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Will Atlas slow the move to smart clients…?
I have been building applications on the web for almost a decade now; real applications used everyday by real people, not web sites you touch every once in a while. In my experience I have learned many things but one important element can be summed up in two words – browsers suck.
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OT: US Supreme Court: Litigous open season on P2P File Sharing
Dont like getting into political issues but this has an effect on software development...
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OT: Microsoft and China
Microsoft censors words like Freedom and Democracy
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The irony of the matter
Apple moving to Intel processors...Microsoft picking up PowerPC
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INTELligent Fruit...
The story of an Apple/Intel relationship is everywhere now so I assume it is a legit story. Apple will in some form be moving to chips from Intel. But what does that really mean? All stories have been essentially the same, long on speculation and short on details. Mid 2006 the switch will begin, that is about all the detail that exists at this point. Jobs is supposed to tell more at his WWDC keynote this morning but certainly the speech will create a cabal of questioning.I find it interesting that no reports have specified something that I think is a bigger issue here than manufacturer; architecture. No report that maintains a 'source' specifies that the move involves the use of X86; there is speculative coupling of the tidbit that Apple has had OSX running on X86 in a lab for some time. This should not be news to anyone who has paid attention as OSX is rooted from an X86 build based on BSD. The move also does not seem to make sense, if Apple is going X86 then why go with Intel - AMD is kicking their butt in so many technical categories...!?Why do we automatically assume that Apple would toe the Intel line, any agreement such as this will have a give and take. In most cases this is going to be economic but since we are all just guessing at this point I will insist that it is possible that Intel will manufacture a chip designed with an instruction set compatible with existing OSX apps. If they dont, could it also be possible that Intel will now exercise the HyperVisor virtualization technology to help the move? Maybe someone smarter than me could answer if these things are possible.Could it be possible that Apple will make and sell PCs? Forget their software which has become a niche for the 13 people who use it, the bulk of their revenue is based on their hardware which quite frankly is both aestetically and technically excellent.Could the chips be used as part of a new home entertainment appliance, an IPod for the living room?Could the story just be a bunch of speculation run amock? The NYT reported on it so truthfulness and bias need to be examined.How many people will walk out of the keynote in protest? Childish I know but we are talking about Apple fans.Scoble: Is it possible that Jobs saw a sneak peek of Longhorn and decided to abandon Apple's traditional business model in Mid 2006 (tentative Longhorn release timeframe!) and start selling Longhorn ready PCs!!!!!! (note to flamers: that was a joke) -
Is PDC 2005 worth it?
For Joe Schmo working at some big bank whose IT group gets saddled with a nice training budget the question of PDC attendance takes on a more colloquail form of begging the boss to send you away for a week. For a group of developers in a software shop like SourceGear, PDC takes on a unique position in that their success is tied closely to that of MSFT and their customers are the type of people who will be at PDC.
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Creating Unattended installs of VS 2005 Beta 2
Performing unattended or "silent" installs in VS 2005 Beta 2 was surprisingly easy. Last night I downloaded the team suite iso from MSDN Subscriber downloads and then extracted the iso to a folder on my computer. In the root of the image there are 4 folders, one of which is the VS folder. Inside VS we find lots and lots of cabinet files, several folders and a setup.exe and vs_setup.msi folder. These launch a guided installer which includes MSDN but in my case I just wanted to automate the settings for my VS installs.
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Now you see it, now you dont...
Beta 2 bits were on MSDN Subscriber downloads this morning and now they seem to have disappeated. What is the story, why the pull?
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Peter Blum breaks out version 3
Almost anyone who uses my web application notices the slick client side validation as well as other various goodies. Most of this stuff comes from an excellent set of validation and input control developeed by Peter Blum.
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Fox’s 24 and Microsoft
If you don’t watch 24 on Fox you don’t know what you are missing. In a world of predictable shows and boring writing it just stands out above the rest; I think Microsoft should sponsor some elements of the show 24, here is what I am thinking…
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VS.NET 2003 Unattended Install
Aaron Stebner wrote quite the helpful entry on unattended installs with VS.NET and it's accompanying components; find it here
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web.config: debug=false
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Code Camp - Kentucky
Registration is now up and available for the Kentucky MSDN Code Camp.
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Microsoft to create SVP award
This is a repost; I thought with all the new MVP awards I would bring it back.