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December 2005 - Don Box's Spoutlet
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That's right, Patricia Fripp is speaking at an internal event on January 10th. Alas, the likelihood of a Frippertronics display is quite low…
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Barb got me the new Kate Bush album Aerial for Christmas and it's really fantastic. I almost fell out of my chair when she starts reciting digits of Pi in the chorus on the second track - absolutely lovely. It's strange how both Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel...
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Nice to know that I'm not the only long-hair who's committed to putting their technology on their license plate …
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Some folks in the Microsoft hardware division decided to experiment with human evolution by changing the dominant keyboard configuration from this: Insert Home PgUp Delete End PgDn to this: Delete PgUp Delete PgDn Home End Thanks to RandyKi , I've seen...
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I installed the Dec. CTP of Windows Vista on a machine at work this week. The glowing ORB effects are great eye candy. I also like Windows Media Player 11, which has some great visualizations over my paltry music library at work. I need to install it...
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It looks like Robert Burke is having fun with XBOX 360 controllers too . One variation would be to write a Tablet app that drove my piano over SOAP. ChrisAn has a Tablet, so maybe he'll hack it up. On a barely related note, another cool toy I ran into...
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John Vlissides of GoF/Design Patterns fame passed away last month. A mutual friend mentioned last year that he was ill, but I only found out this morning that he died on Nov. 24th. I didn't know John super well, but I recall hanging out with him at several...
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ChrisAn and my latest venture into public coding went live today . I strongly encourage you to turn the volume down for the last three minutes of this episode.
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Grady Booch asks for some examples of domain-specific models in the field . Here are a few examples I've encountered over the past couple of years here in the big house: XLANG. XLang is a DSL for modeling message passing concurrent processes. We shipped...
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A while back, Dharma and I wrote a piece for MSDN mag on WF. It's now online .
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Congrats to Ray McCollum and Co. for getting our first WS-Management implementation out the door. In R2, you can use SOAP, WS-Addressing, WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration from any XML/HTTP stack (including Indigo) to manage your server. I...
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Just when I started hearing "Steve Is Dead" while playing my old CORBA records backwards, Mr. Vinoski (or at least an automated blog-bot) dispells the rumors .
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ChrisAn and I filmed the third annual MSDN TV episode yesterday at my house. The first two episodes are here and here . In addition to the usual mix of code, song, and holiday cheer, this one included the must-have WinFX accessory this season: an XBOX...
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