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2005 286 posts

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