You've reached the internet home of Chris Sells, who has a long history as a contributing member of the Windows developer community. He enjoys long walks on the beach and various computer technologies.
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, 8:08 PM in .NET
See MSBuild.exe at the PDC
Here. "MSBuild is the next generation build engine that delivers scalability and flexibility for the entire range of build scenarios, from the basics to complex build-lab scenarios. Drill into the capabilities of this universal build engine for Visual Studio 'Whidbey' and the 'Longhorn' operating system"
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, 4:57 PM
"MP3s Are Not the Devil," by Orson Scott Card
Here. One of my favorite authors speaks out on a controversial topic.
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, 3:38 PM in .NET
The Future "Longhorn" Developer Center
Here. Watch this space.
Monday, Sep 15, 2003, 7:23 PM in .NET
Be Interviewed by Sys-Con Radio @ the PDC
Here. Got something to say about Longhorn or .NET at the PDC in October? Sign up to be interviewed with the likes of Ken Getz, Jonathan Zuck, Scott Hanselman and Ingo Rammer.
Monday, Sep 15, 2003, 2:51 PM in .NET
Longhorn Rocks!
Here. Just testing...
Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, 1:37 PM
That's just freaky!
Here. "aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are..." [blogs.gotdotnet.com/EricGu]
Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, 1:33 PM
FoxTrot pays homage to Tim Ewald's new blog
Here. I mean, what *else* could Bill Amend *possibly* be referring to?!?
Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, 8:25 AM in The Spout
Google is Scary Smart, or Just Scary...
Here. The one where Google is enormously useful and enormously scary at the same time.
Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, 12:00 AM in The Spout
Google is Scary Smart, or Just Scary...
Saturday, September 13, 2003
When I was a kid, the source of universal knowledge at home was
the set of dusty encyclopedias that my Mom inherited from somewhere. Today, it's
the Internet, via Google. That in itself makes Google the fulfillment of most
sci-fi novels' description of the the-store-of-all-human knowledge (I wish the
text of all books were up, but that'll happen in time...).
Anyway, it
didn't hit me just how comprehensive Google was 'til I typed in '"Joe Grammer"
wife' yesterday (I was calling and wanted to be prepared to address his very
nice wife by name in case she answered the phone). In 0.39 seconds, Google gave
45 results, the 3rd of which contained Joe's wife's name! It was Joe himself
who'd mentioned his wife's name in a mailing list post but still, that's pretty
damn scary...
Friday, Sep 12, 2003, 5:47 PM in .NET
Where do you want to go today, fritter?
Here. Hilarious PDC03 Red vs. Blue video!
Friday, Sep 12, 2003, 5:26 PM in The Spout
"Move over Petzold, Sells is here."
Here. I'm sure it won't last, but the WinForms book has broken 1000 (908) and has an average 5-star rating with three reviews, saying very nice things like: "This book rocks! ... All chapters are brilliant." "The localisation and resource usage in the managed world are clearly described and you won't lose hours trying to access resources in your code anymore!" "I stayed up all last night reading Chris' new book... I enjoyed every single page." And, of course, the quote that makes my life complete: "Move over Petzold, Sells is here."
Friday, Sep 12, 2003, 1:00 PM
Hard Core Messaging with WSE 2.0, Pt. 2
Here. Keith Ballinger from the Applied XML Developer's Conference, part 2.
Friday, Sep 12, 2003, 10:40 AM in .NET
PDC2003 Blogging Site
Here. Speaking at the PDC? Going to the PDC? Missing out on the PDC? Check out the PDC Bloggers site, which should keep you neck deep in news (but if you're not there, you're still missing a massive love fest... : ).
Friday, Sep 12, 2003, 9:33 AM in The Spout
Respect for Marketing
Here. The one where I take a look at all of the things that the typical marketing guys has to balance and thank goodness I just get to think about developers. : )
Friday, Sep 12, 2003, 9:02 AM
Why is the taskbar at the bottom of the screen?
Here. Raymond explains why the taskbar defaults to the bottom of the screen (because old apps would position themselves under it a lot when it was on top). Since I defected from the Mac, I always move mine to the top and like it, but did have problems for *years* about apps moving up under there. For those few that still do, I've long since memorized the key sequence: Alt, Space, M, which flips a window into "Move Mode" and lets me use the arrows to move it down. I can understand why MS didn't want to teach everyone that and instead just put the taskbar at the bottom. : )