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A real choice?

I just upgrade to my Real player to a later version. Even with some bad (real pushy) experiences many moons ago, the player has some usability features that are quite handy....

March 23, 2006
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Xbox 360 CLR Possibility

It looks like there's a possibility of the .NET CLR being available for XBox 360 development. Check out these Microsoft blogger posts from Mike Zintel and David Weller....

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March 19, 2006
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Name Change

I decided to add my name to the title of the blog. This somewhat selve serving, but hey it makes it easier for people to "put a name to the face" where the blog is my "face" on the web....

January 25, 2006
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Sparkle Extensibility API?

My interpretation of Microsoft's vision for Sparkle is as a tool for designers while developers will use Visual Studio and they both will work on a Visual Studio project/solution....

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January 25, 2006
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Sparkle Startup Time

I've just downloaded and ran the Sparkle January CTP. Congratulations to the Interactive Designer team for their first public release!...

January 25, 2006
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Lots and Lots of ...

Here's a line from Paul Allen's Official Provo Labs Announcement post that came through in my river of news last month : "In the coming months we'll be looking for part and full time developers,...

January 23, 2006
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Audible not authorized WTF?

I've been aware of the "Getting things done" approach to time management from mentions on various blogs and podcasts. Today I came across the reference again and decided to maybe buy a book on the...

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January 15, 2006
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SoapSerializer and Generics Don't Mix

After a bunch of monotonous code changes the previously V1.1 application now compiles successfully under V2.0 of .NET with generics in used for all domain model aggregation relationships....

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December 7, 2005
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Generic List Covariance

I'm currently moving an existing .NET Framework V1.1 application to V2.0 and changing the domain model to use generics for any collections and lists....

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December 5, 2005
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