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CTP Madness Solved (at least momentarily)
Larry OBrien
writes "All week I’ve been trying to synch up Visual Studio versions with SQL Server versions. I finally got the right combo: first..."
OneNote 12 Screenshots from Owen Braun
Larry OBrien
writes "Owen Braun discusses one of the new organizational features of OneNote 12 (multiple folders) and has a couple of screenshots.
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Hardcore enough for casey
Larry OBrien
writes "casey chesnut, who does things like integrate machine vision into videogames and writes neural nets that defeat CAPTCHAs, says that the PDC was the best conference he’s ever been to, so I guess I’m in the minority in thinking that ..."
Contention at "Future of the user experience" panel
Larry OBrien
writes "They have these special presentations in the press room in which certain topics are presented to a group vastly smaller than the general sessions. Generally, these are pretty mellow. At one this afternoon, though, the press made it clear that they are very skeptical that the Avalon / Windows Presentation Foundation technologies are in any way “the right thing.” Jerry Pournelle pulled a total ..."
Sam Gentile calls it the "Release Candidate" of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite
Larry OBrien
writes "It’s my understanding that this is the RC of VS2005, but Sam Gentile is the first place I actually saw someone else use the phrase…"
Plug in Memory Stick - Expand Memory
Larry OBrien
writes "At yesterday’s keynote Allchin demonstrated a forthcoming capability that allows a Flash-RAM memory stick to be used for system memory. Tom Murphy pointed out the killer application for this capability: “gen up ... "
Workflow is the second big announcement at PDC
Larry OBrien
writes "Yesterday belonged to LINQ, today belongs to Workflow. This is a new namespace / API within WinFX that provides a fundamental atom of Activity. An Activity can be..."
PDC phone deal?
Larry OBrien
writes "Scoble is saying that the phone deal at the PDC (a super-high-end phone for $149) was a real screw-up and not the trickle-feed that I was sure it was. At ..."
Build a managed compiler in Less Than An Hour
Larry OBrien
writes "Very much enjoyed Joe Duffy and Joel Pobar’s session on “Build a compiler for managed code in less than an hour.” Basically, they stepped through the classic compiler stages (scanner, parser, code gen), but then went into how, in the .NET world, the System.Reflection.Emit libraries work. It might have been a little too ambitious in scope – if you carefully go over ..."
LINQ Download
Larry OBrien
writes "The direct link to the C# LINQ preview is ..."
Pete Coffee On Importance Of Hardware Knowledge
Larry OBrien
writes "Peter Coffee’s pre-PDC column correctly points out that truly compelling apps such as eBay, Google, and videogames are built, not in the abstract realms of virtual machines but with painstaking attention to hardware capabilities. This is one reason why knowing C++ is the most important qualification for..."
Tablet PC Gathering at PDC
Larry OBrien
writes "Going to PDC? Be sure to drop by the Tablet PC gathering between 3PM and 6PM on Tuesday. (Los Angeles Convention Center Room 512).
Also of ink-y note: 10:15 Tuesday night is the Tablet BoF and Wednesday at 5 is Shawn van Ness and Jamie Wakeam on “Windows Vista Tablet PC: Advances in Creating Tablet Enabled Applications” (Room 501 ABC)
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Code Complete, Second Edition
Larry OBrien
writes "Code Complete achieves its victory on the basis of two dimensions: its scope is vast yet precisely delimited and its advice is bold yet supported by data."
WinFS Scaled Back
Larry OBrien
writes "According to BusinessWeek, Microsoft is cutting features in Longhorn in order to achieve a first-half 2006 ship date. BusinessWeek says that the biggest casualty will be WinFS, the metadata store that would go beyond things like size and creation date to track an enormous number of attributes about files."
New Form Factors for Tablet PC
Larry OBrien
writes "I don't usually stick my nose into hardware issues, but one of the themes of the talk I had with Microsoft's Tablet PC gang today was that the Tablet PC technology (high-resolution digitizing screen, ink, etc.) is moving into some really interesting form factors -- some smaller than traditional notebooks, some in "fixed mount" locations."
The XAML Stepping Stone
Larry OBrien
writes "The scales fell off my eyes this morning when I was answering an email to my recent SD Times article discussing InfoPath...now I see the obvious: if InfoPath 2006 (or whatever) generated XAML, the result would be the exact
'stepping stone' between power user and programmer whose absence I lamented in the article."
The Ideal Conference
Larry OBrien
writes "To me, the ideal conference would be one where the presentations were made available to attendees the week prior to the conference and when the session is scheduled, attendees walked into a ZeroConf WiFi lillypad that provided a shared workspace with the tools available and the presenters first words were 'So. How did the exercises go?'"
Tablet PC 1.7 SDK in Post-PDC Materials
Larry OBrien
writes "Waggener Edstrom's Tina Warner tells me that the Tablet PC 1.7 SDK will ship with the PDC post-show attendee kits "so timing may be another few weeks." I can't wait! "
The Witching Season and FUD
Larry OBrien
writes "The solid point of the article, and one that bears repeating, is that Longhorn and other things demonstrated at the PDC (such as Wallop) can instill "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" if taken the wrong way."
Interop and Language Fidelity
Larry OBrien
writes "At one of the CLR evolution talks, I disagreed with the prevailing notion that serving the needs of the current language community should be of paramount concern. To me, interop trumps language fidelity."
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