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2005 286 posts
- Dec 29Dirty Publishing Secret: Indexes Suck
- Dec 29“Conjure our spirits in a magical language called Lisp”
- Dec 29George Carlin’s Incomplete List of Impolite Words
- Dec 28PM Skill #2: Building Consensus
- Dec 23PM Skill #1: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Dec 22PM Skill #0: Know Your Job
- Dec 20MSDN Mag: Top Ten UI Breakthroughs In WPF
- Dec 18How come nobody says “impeach?”
- Dec 16Windows Forms 2.0 Book Samples Posted
- Dec 16Windows Forms Programming 2005 in C# Submitted!
- Dec 9Windows Template Library (WTL) 7.5
- Nov 26Wasting the Prince of Darkness
- Nov 23Wasting the Prince of Darkness
- Nov 23A C# 2.0 anon delegate “gotcha”
- Nov 22Use IM to Ask Encarta
- Nov 21WinFX November 2005 CTP
- Nov 16Lots of WinForms 2.0 Chewy Goodness
- Nov 15Turning off special features in DVDs and CDs?
- Nov 13Dilbert on Trial Redundancy
- Nov 13USB HD w/ OS/Apps + FolderShare = Portable Computing?
- Nov 11Best Exam Answer Ever
- Nov 11Best Exam Answer Ever
- Nov 11WPF: Handling Button.Click or defining a command?
- Nov 11Wahoo2!
- Nov 11After the writing is done
- Nov 10Windows Forms 2.0 UI Clones
- Nov 8Have I missed anything?
- Nov 8Using VS05 to build .NET 1.x apps
- Nov 611/10 PND Topic: What does MDD mean to you?
- Nov 4Generics Q: Best way to convert a string to a T?
- Nov 4WinFX in the BackRow
- Oct 31What’s a group of geeks called?
- Oct 29Testing ASP.NET 2.0 port of sb.com
- Oct 27Scraping old versions of VS05 off your system
- Oct 27VS05 Has Shipped! Wahoo!
- Oct 26The Most Amazing Consumer Experience
- Oct 26I’m all ready for 9th grade
- Oct 24PDC05 Sessions Online
- Oct 24Petzold on “Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?”
- Oct 24WF Activity Context
- Oct 24Typed WF Communications Details
- Oct 22Samwise Gamgee was the ultimate Program Manager
- Oct 21I’m starting to speak in numbers
- Oct 21@ MS, We Share Your Pain
- Oct 20I’m the “with” @ the Redmond P&P Summit
- Oct 20Top 10 List of Top 10 Lists
- Oct 18Retaking the holy land
- Oct 17Web Services and Data Binding?
- Oct 16More Workflow Communciation Spelunking
- Oct 14Quote of the day
- Oct 14Workflow Communication Spelunking
- Oct 13His Outsourced Life
- Oct 13How is “workflow” different from “visual programming?”
- Oct 11What interests you about Windows Workflow Foundation?
- Oct 10It’s a Windows Life
- Oct 10Open Office is a “real” thing
- Oct 10Shepherd Book Wasn’t Always A Shepherd
- Oct 9John Gossman on Model/View/ViewModel
- Oct 8I’m also a huge Ian fan, as you should be
- Oct 8I’m a fan
- Oct 8Wise Advice from Tyler Brown
- Oct 6The Competition
- Oct 6How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love the Reboot
- Oct 3I don’t ever want to unpack my books
- Sep 30I need Outlook’s new anti-phishing support
- Sep 30Looking forward to “Serenity”
- Sep 29Light Sabers You Can Actually Battle With?
- Sep 28Indigo Road Show @ PADNUG Tonight
- Sep 26MS Dogfooding Avalon
- Sep 22My Product Group Fun: 2
- Sep 18Please Post Reviews of Avalon Book
- Sep 18Tracking exceptions thrown by your apps worldwide
- Sep 15Double Wow
- Sep 15WPF Book Sold Out Again, More Coming on Friday
- Sep 14Programming WPF: Sold Out @ the PDC, More Coming
- Sep 11WinFX Hearts
- Sep 10Remove the slow “Compress Old Files” option!
- Sep 9MS Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
- Sep 6Stumped
- Sep 6I’m in
- Aug 29MS Interns Out of Sync (Video)
- Aug 29Early WinFS beta posted for MSDN subscribers
- Aug 26No DevCon This Year
- Aug 26Avalon + Indigo = Magic @ the PDC
- Aug 24PND For You And Me
- Aug 23Show Off @ The PDC
- Aug 22New Contractor Advice: Time Estimation
- Aug 20The List
- Aug 19Cool New IVR Feature
- Aug 12Very Cool Nullable Fix
- Aug 12The Half Monty
- Aug 11What should I do w/ the metadata?
- Aug 5Fight Club Rules 9-16
- Aug 5I Love Arguing with Ian
- Aug 3WinFX Beta 1 Online SDK Docs
- Jul 28Don Box Slept Here
- Jul 27Limiting/Monitoring my sons’ access to the ’net?
- Jul 22Cool Avalon Default Style Trick
- Jul 20Have Sex With Prostitutes at the PDC
- Jul 17I don’t know who has time for this stuff @ work…
- Jul 16My First MsBuild Task
- Jul 12Amazing XAML Tool: Adobe Illustrator -> XAML
- Jul 12Eric Sink: The Game is Afoot
- Jul 12Looking forward to the Portland Code Camp, 7/23-24
- Jul 10Is it creepy that I think this is valid?
- Jul 10Enjoying This Moment
- Jul 6Old Man’s War
- Jul 5Taking a break from writing on Saturday to see FF
- Jul 5Register for COM Interop and VS05b2
- Jul 5Grid: The King of Avalon Layout
- Jun 28Avalon and ASP.NET, Together At Last
- Jun 28Portland Code Camp, July 23-24, Reed College
- Jun 27The scientists never survive this kind of thing…
- Jun 27New Monad Build Available
- Jun 23My Worst Job
- Jun 21On the road to the PDC via Twin Peaks
- Jun 20Theoretical Computer Science
- Jun 20My Weekend
- Jun 16The logicial conclusion of spam
- Jun 14The End of an Era
- Jun 13Me and the Star Wars Gang
- Jun 13Love Reviewers; Hate Reviews
- Jun 11Ajax.NET
- Jun 9Never Give Up, Never Surrender
- Jun 9Col. Jessup on the .NET Performance Team
- Jun 7Q: What is “funding the clubbing of baby seals?”
- Jun 7Career Path for Developers?
- Jun 6@this freaked me out
- Jun 4More Skype Love
- Jun 4Realistic Conference Expectations
- Jun 3IanG Interview on ServerSide.NET
- May 31Every PC Should Have A Camera, Mic + Stylus
- May 31Blogging is not marketing copy!
- May 30URLs in the Footnotes?
- May 29IanG Builds a Real Magnifying Glass in Avalon
- May 28Darth Vader vs. Yoda?
- May 27Studs from Microsoft
- May 27The Logic of Logic
- May 26I am a Gauntlet Adventurer
- May 25XBox 360 Game Videos
- May 25C++ is dead, long live C++!
- May 24Frequent Flier Miles Suck (Airlines Suck)
- May 24Story-Driven Development
- May 24Cat Swimmer
- May 23Episode III: ROTS doesn’t suck and other opinions
- May 23Avalon + Indigo Beta 1 Release Candidate
- May 18Avalon Wants You!
- May 13“dumpbin” is now “link -dump”
- May 13When did the cmd shell start doing this?!?
- May 12Survey: Windows Forms Programming 2ed Length
- May 11More Better Avalon Sparklines
- May 11Damn I Love Skype!
- May 10A Few More Books From My Current Stack
- May 10Today’s Reading: A Semantic Web Primer
- May 4Animating Avalon Card Control Library
- May 2I am not a graphic artist!
- May 2Only Annual Time Traveler’s Convention
- Apr 30I enjoyed THGTTG
- Apr 28Another VB.NET feature that makes me jealous
- Apr 26Anyone Want To Join Us For Hitchhiker on Friday?
- Apr 26The Value of Scoble
- Apr 26I Like VC# Express
- Apr 24Status of ATL Internals 2e
- Apr 24Status on Windows Forms Programming 2e
- Apr 21Rocky on SOA Versioning
- Apr 15Now *that’s* how you want a Virtual PC to be!
- Apr 13Rory + Scott’s TechEd Video #4
- Apr 13Worth giving up the Omega Speedmaster for…
- Apr 11ZAM 3D: A 3D XAML Tool for Avalon
- Apr 11Reviewers Should Be More Like Roger
- Apr 11My First Week on a Microsoft Product Team: Wallowing
- Apr 10Hitchhiker’s Guide Is Likely to Suck
- Apr 9Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool
- Apr 8Indigo Software Design Review Online
- Apr 4The Distributed Systems Group Is Hiring
- Apr 4RegexDesigner Updated
- Apr 2Omri pulls a Julia Andrews on Indigo
- Apr 2Making XML More Aerodynamic
- Apr 1Visual Studio 2005 Linux Edition
- Apr 1Viva la IDL!
- Apr 1My First New Job at Microsoft
- Mar 31sellsbrothers.com needs an intern!
- Mar 30The *Official* Place for Avalon and Indigo Bugs!
- Mar 30Another Laugh Out Loud TechEd Video
- Mar 30Leaders and Legacy
- Mar 30I can feel Avalon changing me…
- Mar 29Translate C# To And From VB.NET As You Type!
- Mar 29Betsy’s Got Them GotDotNet Blues
- Mar 29La Vida Robot
- Mar 28Steve Maine on Indigo Duplex Contracts
- Mar 25March Avalon/Indigo CTP Available for Public Download
- Mar 22Duncan Shows How To Host MSDN Content On Your Site
- Mar 21Chris Anderson’s AvPad for the March CTP
- Mar 21A Coder in Courierland
- Mar 18Who knew the Brits were so randy?
- Mar 16Laugh Out Loud Funny: TechEd Video #2
- Mar 16I want XBOX Live virtual presence for my PC!
- Mar 15Smart Client Offline Application Block Demo
- Mar 15Updater Application Block v2.0 Released
- Mar 15Lego Star Wars Video Game: Hilarious Fun
- Mar 13When the student is ready, the teacher will come
- Mar 12Our New PND Dinner Bell Has Rung
- Mar 11Need More Chris Anderson? Don’t We All?
- Mar 11Some Of My Favorite Books
- Mar 10New Community Web Site: XAML.net
- Mar 7Day of Indigo Videos from VSLive
- Mar 3MS Survey: Partial Trust and Code Access Security
- Mar 2IT Industry’s Own Jobs Training Program
- Mar 2Super Friends + Office Space == Hilarity
- Mar 1Clemens Weekend with Indigo
- Mar 1Tom’s a Big Thinktecture Fan
- Feb 28Let MS make sure your .NET 1.x app run on .NET 2.0
- Feb 282D and 3D Chess for Nov. ’04 Avalon CTP
- Feb 23On Being Socially Re-engineered
- Feb 22Scott Hanselman’s Great .NET Developer Questions
- Feb 21The Convergence of Documents Media and Application
- Feb 19I’m with Shawn — Constantine was Good
- Feb 18Building a Tabbed Browser with Windows Forms 2.0
- Feb 18What’s New in the VS05 Toolbox for Windows Apps
- Feb 16Building Extensible Windows Forms Applications
- Feb 16Windows Forms Threading Techniques
- Feb 16Hitchhiker’s Guide Might Not Suck
- Feb 16The MS Official Story Direct to Your RSS Reader
- Feb 16Windows Metafile to Avalon XAML Conversion
- Feb 16Joe’s Codeless Avalon XAML Samples Updated
- Feb 14Fear, Uncertainty and Longhorn
- Feb 14VSLive in Vegas Has “SmartClient Live”
- Feb 12Service Contracts in Indigo
- Feb 12Airing The Dirty Laundry
- Feb 12Experimenting with Windows Alternatives
- Feb 11i-mate SP3 Smartphone: How do I love thee?
- Feb 11Local Boy Does Good
- Feb 11Project Manager Leavers Suicide PPT Presentation
- Feb 10Smart Client Patterns & Practices Survey
- Feb 10Google Site Search *Is* Working!
- Feb 10Indigo Day: Mujtaba Syed’s Notes From The Field
- Feb 9VSLive Indigo Day Coverage from TheServerSide
- Feb 9Introducing Indigo: An Early Look
- Feb 9I Think VSLive Is *It*
- Feb 9Video: Soma on Visual Studio 2005 + Smart Clients
- Feb 9Clemens says “Hello, World” via Indigo
- Feb 9Watch Eric Rudder’s VSLive Indigo Keynote
- Feb 8Allowing Partially Trusted Callers
- Feb 8Trying To Be As Cool As Star Trek
- Feb 8Avalon + Scaleable Golf == Hole in N
- Feb 5Chris Sells Is Merely an Alter-Ego
- Feb 4DeepWinFX: Avalon Menus
- Feb 4Want to be able to step into the Windows Forms source? I do!
- Feb 3Keeping the Windows Forms Designer from Eating You
- Feb 3Feb 15h, Founder’s Last Portland Nerd Dinner
- Feb 3London Avalon Enthusiasts Dinner
- Jan 31Aurora XAML Editor Updated for Avalon Nov. CTP
- Jan 30XAML Experience Highly Desired in Concord, MA
- Jan 30Awaiting and Dreading Subtext
- Jan 27SolFX: Much Improved Performance
- Jan 27Schools Ban Camera Phones Amid ‘Happy Slapping’ Craze
- Jan 25Avalon Property Triggers
- Jan 25Ari Bixhorn on Indigo
- Jan 25I Can’t Promise To Answer All Of Your Prayers, But I Promise To Always Listen
- Jan 23Jason Olson’s Microsoft Interview Advice
- Jan 21Jason Olson’s Microsoft Interview Advice
- Jan 2020 is the new 30
- Jan 20Creating 2-D and 3-D Dynamic Animations in “Avalon
- Jan 20JasonW on ClickOnce Permission Elevations
- Jan 19Telling us we’re Bad and Ugly is Good!
- Jan 19The Reason For Code Access Security
- Jan 19Let Slip The Dogs of War!
- Jan 19Get Out The Vote: .NET DJ Reader’s Choice Awards
- Jan 17Formatting Web Content for Compact Devices
- Jan 17Email Throughput
- Jan 17MSDN Webcast: .NET Smart Client
- Jan 17MSDN Webcast: .NET Compact Framework 2.0
- Jan 16Getting Started w/ the Public Avalon CTP for Newbies
- Jan 15Vote for Balloon Help in .NET 2.0
- Jan 14Request for Proposal: ClickOnce Application Series
- Jan 14Nov. ’04 Avalon CTP Available for Public Download
- Jan 13A New WinFX Community Enters the Fray
- Jan 13ClickOnce Love
- Jan 13Microsoft Plans Information Bridge Update
- Jan 6Welcome to SolFx
- Jan 6Avalon Nov. ’04 CTP Sample: SolFx
- Jan 5Thinstall sounds cool
- Jan 3Seeing Stars in Avalon
- Jan 3Paint.NET 2.0
- Jan 3Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop
- Jan 1Death As A Possible Consequence