February 8, 2007 fun

Slide your vote in for ScottH’s Podcast

I only listen to one podcast, so casting my vote for Hanselminutes on podcast alley’s list of top podcasts was a no-brainer. Plus, when I voted,...

February 4, 2007 tools

.NET: Decompressing zip file entries into memory

I knew that the J# libraries in .NET had zip file support, but I couldn’t find any samples that showed how to decompress the files into memory. The...

February 3, 2007 fun

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...

February 2, 2007

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...

February 2, 2007 tools

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...

February 1, 2007 .net

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…...

January 30, 2007 .net

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...

January 29, 2007 tools

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,...


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