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Another very interesting day at the PDC. I went to a number of different sessions across a wide range of subjects. I decided that it is important to get a taste of all the different subjects being discussed at the PDC. As always what I have really enjoyed the stimulating conversations you have with people from Microsoft and other attendees at the PDC . I am trying to look at Longhorn from a business viewpoint and starting to think what aspects of Longhorn would make a company decide to roll out Longhorn. Indigo is great and wonderful thing for developers but in the end it is just plumbing. I think of it being more important on the application server than on the client. Though I am sure the indigo people would disagree. Avalon and Aero are great but companies don't buy “cool” interfaces otherwise Apple would have much more than 2% of the market. Really it is the capabilities of winFs that could be of much more importance to the majority of companies. I find winFS very interesting as ...
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There is also an enforcement clause No Child Left Behind, which follows: A Title I school that has not made adequate yearly progress, as defined by the state, for two consecutive school years will be identified by the district before...
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| 23:35:41 October 28, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Katabasis |
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Winona Ryder turns 32 tomorrow. The probability of meeting, dating, and eventually marrying her is starting to look a little slim (yah, that's right, the generational disparity is the only barrier to our love :P)....
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(SOURCE:joehewitt.com)- I think the challenge is clear; get the non-Microsoft rich Web GUI app development story in gear well before 2006 to keep the Microsoft threat at bay. Remember that XAML will only be 1.0 in 2006, so this means 2004 and 2005 is the time to get out non 1.0 releases of XUL and Laszlo to show developers there is better cross platform way. QUOTE I think the bottom-line of XAML is that it is equally useful for creating both desktop applications, web pages, and printable documents. This means that Microsoft may be attempting to simultaneously obsolete HTML, CSS, DOM, XUL, SVG, SMIL, Flash, PDF. At this point, the SDK documentation is too incomplete to firmly judge how well XAML compares with these formats, but I hope this lights a fire under the collective butt of the W3C, Macromedia, and Adobe. 2006 is going to be a fun year. UNQUOTE
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Cool... Reminds me of that scene from Pleasantville. Very cool.... (Jazz)
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Being a software engineer, I've changed my fedora migration plans at the last minute. Basically, since the web stuff was...
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Wood Veneer Business Cards...
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| 22:24:44 October 28, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: light red |
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It's dark here and it's getting darker. I'm falling into a black hole, an Abyss. No one and nothing, I...
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Life I've resumed sport and I am slowly recovering the physical capabilities I had before my disease. I still must be very careful and patient. MlView XML editor I've been hacking a lot on MlView these days and things are coming along nicely. The gtk2 port is almost in the box and hopefully I'll have more room to hack on more functional things soon... Yeah, I know the shots on the website are terribly outdated compared to what is in the CVS today ... Unfortunately, people tend to trust the screenshots only instead of grabing the sources from CVS :) Man, I hate maintaining screenshots.
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I finally joined netflix. The laborious process of introducing myself to its recommender system combined with some recent reading on...
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Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, wrote a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Director regarding the Eolas patent, asking that the patent be invalidated. For more information, see the W3C's Briefing, World Wide Web Consortium Presents US Patent Office with Evidence Invalidating Eolas Patent and the letter from Tim Berners-Lee to Hon. James E. Rogan. The letter is quite insightful about the impact of this recent lawsuit on the Web. See also the New York Times: Web Group Backs Microsoft in Patent Suit. (114 words, 5 links)
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BILL said "Let there be Windows" there was Windows. BILL saw this and it was good. Yeah. I have Windows...
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Perhaps it was his influence that wrapped my mind in perceptiveness. Perhaps I was going crazy. My skin was pale from the rain and cold as I stood on the doorstep of what could be... I don't even know what....
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| 21:53:36 October 28, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Mindful |
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This is funny. "Same As It Ever Was" - who would have thought of that?...
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This is funny. "Same As It Ever Was" - who would have thought of that?...
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Ever since I have read The Innovator's Dilemma, I have been interested in the storage industry. Yesterday, Business Week published a feature about the storage industry called The Storage Comeback. So, what is so special about the storage industry? It sells a product that is -- at first sight --...
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I’m sure many people who visit this site also frequent the design forum YayHoooray. I’ve just been informed that Rich...
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Niels has just blogged that Roger Wolter, the Microsoft Programme Manager for the new Service Broker in Yukon has delivered a session on the technology. HOORAY Now I can talk about it :-) Service Broker is a very cool new feature that builds a reliable messaging infrastructure directly into the Yukon database engine. It handles all the hard stuff about writing message orientated systems (like message ordering, breaking large messages into fragments, recovery, etc). I'm in the middle of teaching an Essential .NET class at the moment but will hopefully write a proper piece on it tonight when I get back to my hotel.
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The NBA season started tonight, and the Kobe Bryant story that is sure to dominate the year. It is sad that so much attention will be turned to this story instead of to others that actually have an impact on...
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Another interesting point is that unlike NASA our "resources" and "budget" varies at least partially based on how interesting we are. There are thousands of really competent, untapped programmers who use GNOME: many of them may have even considered hacking on free software but never got around to it because other things in their lives are more interesting, immediate, whatever. If we started doing really cool things, more of those people are going to get "pushed over the edge" and actually get around to getting involved.
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| 21:19:00 October 28, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Read an interesting article about NASA. that basically argues the agency was an order of magnitude more productive during its Apollo-phase than during the current low-earth-orbit Shuttle-phase. The author, who admitedly has an axe to grind, compares NASA's output from 1963-1971 with its output from 1990-now. The Shuttle missions, he claims, are basically done with the argument that "we could use them for something, anything, in the future". The conclusion? When NASA was actually working toward concrete (lofty) goals, a lot more got done. I think its a very general phenomenuum in engineering (and maybe other areas too?). Both in a micro (single person across a day or two) and a macro (hundreds of people across months or years) scale... to achieve great things you need to have great goals that you really buy into. The article struck a chord with me because it reminded me of GNOME. GNOME exists in a state of perpetual shuttle-missions. It has no goal, no vision. I don't wake up in the ...
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| 21:16:00 October 28, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Yesterday Rapper Nelly's jewelry was stolen from the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas. Apparently it was close to a million dollars...
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| 21:04:37 October 28, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: poliRANT |
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I'm typing this with one hand, because I've sprained my right wrist pretty badly in a fall. I'll be wearing a wrist splint for the next ten days, I can't even hold my mouse, much less type, and I'm not happy. And how, exactly, did I hurt my wrist? By...
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| 21:00:53 October 28, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: metrocake |
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Here are some interesting new sites which I recommend ("new sites" meaning "new to me"), and which I have added to my recommended reading list. Most of them offer an RSS feed, by the way....
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