Stange But Real Facts

I don’t know how many of these are actually real (my left-handed son was very disappointed to hear that he’d be dying 9 years before his...

You Can Help Find Jim Gray

From Dan Rosenfeld of Microsoft Research: “As some of you may know, our colleague Jim Gray is currently missing, having failed to return from a...

Windows Servers for the rest of us

Charlie Kindel of COM fame (he’s wrote the foreword to Don’s seminal work “Essential COM”) is the Product Unit Manager (softie-speak for “butt on...

The Potential of WPF/E

Savas turned me onto an amazing WPF/E application. I don’t speak the language of the web site, but the screenshot on Savas’s site is worth a look…...

WPF XBAP App: British Library Books Online

“The British Library is one of the world’s leading libraries and the national library of the United Kingdom. By charter, it holds a copy of every...

Window Clippings 1.5

Capturing screenshots for a book used to be a piece of cake. Alt+PrintScreent and you were golden. However, sometimes I wanted to get the cursor,...

API Usability

Don has a piece up about something that I’ve always called “API Usability.” The idea when building libraries is to write client code first against...

Boogers and My Writing Process

I’m supposed to be writing today, but John (my eldest son) is also doing some writing as part of his homework. However, after watching him struggle...