Looking for a new job
Some internal changes here at Microsoft finds me looking for a new job. I am focusing my search on jobs still here at Microsoft, but I guess I need to…
Silverlight Slideshow control
I’ve been looking to change out my Flash-based slide shows that appear on my personal blog with a Silverlight-based slide show control. A quick Internet search revealed First Floor’s Silverlight…
Verizon DSL redirects bad URL requests
I use Verizon DSL. Verizon just activated a service that gets their DNS server to lie in response to requests for non-existent domain names. Instead of returning a "domain not…
Visual Studio 2008 RTM today
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is done, and can be downloaded today to MSDN Professional subscribers. See a previous post for some of the most exciting features of this new release.
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to ship this month
In a press release today, Microsoft announced it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 this month. This is a truly remarkable landmark release. My favorite new features…
WPF Gmail clone: end of the road
Due to patent and copyright concerns and trying to avoid any trouble from Google, I cannot release the source code to the WPF Gmail clone sample. I have decided instead…
Advertising bubble to burst or a new tax: take your pick
The dot-com bubble burst I fully expected the dot-com bubble to burst. The entire premise driving all the enormous bank loans, the promise of huge returns from the newly discovered…
Back to Blogger
I left Blogger back in October 2005 to switch to Community Server as my blogging platform. I had the fortune of working at an institution that was happy to lend…
An update on the cloned Gmail interface using WPF
I’ve spent a couple dozen hours now working into the details of the Gmail clone I began about a month ago. I’ve been learning more of the ins-and-outs of WPF’s…
New WPF developer clones Gmail interface in 4 hours
Although Visual Studio 2005 and the appropriate extension can enable WPF development, with the release of beta 2 Visual Studio 2008 we have a seemless integration of Windows Presentation Foundation…