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Two collegues of mine at Avanade , Hong Tan and Greg Ferguson, did a demo of WPF for the students at UCI . For the demo they took the Kevin Button and modified it with pictures of Hong. They also created a javascript only version of the button to see
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One of my side projects at work has been a social website for the SoCal solution developers. I decided the site would be a great chance to learn more about WPF/E as well as ASP.NET AJAX so I've been making heavy use of both on the site. One of the last
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I've always thought that Flash was cool. When I was in college I purchased a copy of Macromedia studio at the academic price and tried to create some Flash animations for a website. However, I'm not a designer and the learning curve was too much for me
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I now have another blog in addition to my main blog . My new blog is hosted by Avanade and I'll be cross-posting to both when it makes sense. There are a bunch of other Avanauts blogging on the new site , take a look and you will find some valuable stuff
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In my life as a developer I have somehow never been on a project where I was creating a windows forms application (or a VB6 UI for that matter) AFAIR. Somehow I was always doing either ASP, ASP.NET, or some backend application with no real UI. My current
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Well I'm back from vacationing in New York and Connecticut for a week (which was great) and I just found out that I passed the 553 and 554 exams which I took while they were in beta. Passing these two exams not only gives you a MCPD:EA cert, it also gives
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From a new avablogger comes a first look at the Avanade Enterprise Library Integration Pack : I've been working on a small side project to integrate Enterprise Library with Visual Studio. The end result of the project, tentatively named Enterprise Library
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From Andy May : OK, so again it's nothing to do with Sharepoint but I've got to give a shout to Flagr which just has to be my favourite Googlemap mashup to date. Very easy to use and very cool. That is a very cool site. I played with it a little yesterday.
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Yesterday I received an email from Tyson Hartman the CTO of the company I work for ( Avanade ) and it had a link to his blog . On his blog he is using Technorati tagging to keep a list of all the Avanade bloggers . How cool is that? This company I work
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GDN is still down, but I was able to get a copy of EntLib 2.0 from my fellow Avanadian Tim Shakirian . I'm using the data access portion and it is working in my application, but I was unable to turn on instrumentation. In the docs it says: To install
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Last night we released the version 1.0 of the software I've been working on for the last six months. Hopefully that means I'll have more time for blogging and more time to explore all the new stuff that has been released recently. One of the things that
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Today I needed an Internet connection on my laptop to send in my time report, but I couldn't plug it into the network at the client. After some searching I found this article on Smart Phone Thoughts which worked perfectly: Smartphones, in spite of their
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I am at the PDC have a great time. I haven't posted anything simply because I've been way too busy and so I'm just soaking everything in. I'm planning on posting my thoughts soon (if you care). In the meantime here are a few links that point to things
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Here is my current schedule for the PDC. Most of the time slots have two sessions only because I either haven't had time to decide or I want to keep my options open. I'm hoping to take notes and post them here. Schedule for Bryant Likes Monday, September
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From Clemmens talking about technology overload: Enter VS2005 and the summary of trying to achieve the same knowledge density is: “Frustrating”. I feel his frustration. I remember going to PDC 2003 and realizing that it was getting very hard
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