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Friday, Aug 13, 2004, 4:06 PM in Conference
Register Now: Applied XML Dev.Conf. 10/20-21
Here.
Every year it gets harder to pick speakers for the DevCon. This year, I had 4x the number of submissions for which I had available slots. So, while it's hard for me to pick, it makes for a fabulous line up for attendees:
For speakers, we've got keynotes from Tim Bray (co-inventor of XML) and Tim Ewald. We've also got Don Box, Sam Ruby, Jeff Barr (of Amazon.com), Keith Brown, Scott Hanselman, Chris Anderson, Doug Purdy, Ted Neward, Rich Salz and more.
For subjects, we'll hear about the present and future of the blogging community, how MSDN plans to expose it's huge store of content via web services, Schematron, XSLT2, web services versioning, how 3rd parties are making use of Amazon.com's services for profit and how the Navy is using XML to test their missile systems.
For venue, we've got the site of my first technical talk ever, Skamania Lodge, a beautiful resort just 40 minutes from the Portland Int'l Airport. And since the conference is Wed-Thu (10/20-21), bring the family and extend your stay over the weekend!
All of the previous 4 DevCons have sold out, so you should register quickly (and don't forget to make your hotel reservations, too)!
For all the conference and hotel details, click here.
Friday, Aug 13, 2004, 3:50 PM in .NET
Ohhhh... Imaginary Flying 3D Donut...
Karsten Jzkdliguloiuski has updated his Avalon 3D Donut to be more delicious and interactive and to fly! Enjoy.
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 10:29 PM in .NET
.NET DJ Interviews Don "The King of COM" Box
Here. In the interview, Don answers questions like "How did you get started in computer technologies" and "What's your favorite vegetable," but he also answers much more interesting questions like "I'm perfectly happy using ASMX for Web services - why should I care about Indigo?" and "So, how will Indigo be better than WSE 2.0?"
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 10:12 PM in .NET
"Windows Forms layout coming out of your butt"
Mike Weinhardt lists his favorite new features in Windows Forms 2.0, not only bringing my "butt" into it, but making it sound like a good thing. : )
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 8:07 PM in .NET
Eric Gunnerson Can't Resist The Pull Of Longhorn
Apparently Eric Gunnerson, confident that C# is now perfect (and who can blame him?) has decided to work on the Longhorn Movie Maker team (and who can blame him?).
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 6:05 PM in .NET
Scott's .NET Zen
I find these strangely compelling, especially this one:
Languages Zen Koan:
"One day Fred was working with .NET. He overheard a programmer say to his superior, "Give me the best programming language you have." "Every language in .NET is the best," replied the butcher. "You can not find any language in .NET that is not the best." At these words, Fred was enlightened."
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 5:56 PM in .NET
3D for the Rest of Us, Part 2: Transforms
Daniel Lehenbauer, SDE on the Avalon team, posts another article on Avalon 3D with fabulous figures. As a guy that relies on screen shots and the kindness of his friends for such luscious figures, I've very jealous. Check it out.
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 5:50 PM in .NET
Monad Architect Presents on the Monad Shell
Only4Gurus.com has posted a presentation by Jeffrey P. Snover, a Monad Architect, entitled "Monad Shell – Task-Oriented Automation Framework," in which he covers the Monad mission, the overall architecture and key developer and admin concepts. I'm a huge Monad fan and so should you be.
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 11:20 AM in .NET
"Avalon is not going to replace the browser."
Joe Beda, development lead on the Avalon team, talks about rich vs. reach and where Avalon fits into this picture.
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 9:08 AM in Fun
I'm With David: Doom 3 Ain't All That
I can't tell you how much I loved Doom. I've probably played all of the Doom games back-to-back all the way through a half a dozen times over the last decade. And I was so excited about Doom 3, but David's right: Star Wars is to Phantom Menace as Doom 1 is to Doom 3: much prettier but much less fun.
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 9:00 AM in .NET
DonXML Updates His SVG2XAML Tool For WinHEC LH
DonXML has ported his SVG to XAML conversion tool to the WinHEC build of Longhorn and provides the source as well as the binary on his GotDotNet workspace.
Eventually, we'll be awash in real tools that output XAML, but until then conversion tools are important so that real artists can use the tools with which they're already familiar, output them into a vector format supported by that tool and then convert them to XAML for use in Longhorn apps.
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004, 8:25 AM
UCLA Prof. Interviews Chris Sells
Adjunct Professor Aleksey Nudelman for UCLA extension interviews Chris Sells on the history and future of the Windows Forms Programming book, which he uses as the text in his Windows Forms extension course.
Monday, Aug 9, 2004, 5:36 PM in Fun
It's Best To Ignore Rory on IM
If you ignore Rory on IM, you get fun stuff like this:
Rory [Shut up] says:
Hey - are you really away, or are you faking it so that people like me won't write to you?
Rory [Shut up] says:
Well. I guess you're really away.
Rory [Shut up] writes:
Rory [Shut up] writes:
Rory [Shut up] writes:
Rory [Shut up] writes:
Rory [Let's get stinky together]] writes:
Thursday, Aug 5, 2004, 12:15 AM in The Spout
Mensa Has an Open Enrollment Day
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx
I must fit into some kind of quota (Windows programmers? Authors? Norwegians? Big, Dopey, White Guys?) for Mensa to let me in...
And don't forget to steal the new flair, Rory... : )
Tuesday, Aug 3, 2004, 5:01 PM in .NET
XAML: Smooth & Satisfying
Peter Stern strikes again, this time with fun XAML t-shirts, coffee mugs and laptop stickers. Ordered.