Avalon Wants You!

The Avalon team is hiring. For example, here’s a software development engineer (SDE) position on the Avalon team: “The Avalon team is developing...

“dumpbin” is now “link -dump”

Apparently in Whidbey, “dumpbin” (and some other tools that were merely wrappers around link) has been dumped. To get to it now, do “link -dump...

When did the cmd shell start doing this?!?

Imagine the following C program: If I run this from a command shell and I enter “hi” [Enter], it looks like this: If I run it again using “lo”...

Survey: Windows Forms Programming 2ed Length

There has been some publisher/author controversy around the length of the 2ed of Windows Forms Programming. WF2 has essentially doubled in size, so...

More Better Avalon Sparklines

Sean Gerety has updated his Avalon sparklines implementation, producing good news, bad news and more good news: good news: the sparklines...

Damn I Love Skype!

Skype is the thing that seems to work best for my Australian phone calls (at least once/week if not more) and I love SkypeOut for when I’m just too...

A Few More Books From My Current Stack

Here’re some other things I’ve been reading lately: “UML Distilled.” This one’s useful to figure out which way the arrows are pointing these days...

Today’s Reading: A Semantic Web Primer

I started “A Semantic Web Primer” today at the urging of a colleague. Chapter 1 seemed to say, “If web sites exposes structured data using a...