PDC Week: Too Much Information!
This week is Microsoft’s PDC, and I, regrettably, am not there. So I’m following along from a distance, watching the keynotes live from the main site and reading a lot about Microsoft Azure Services Platform and in it’s various incarnations … and trying to follow some of the best coverage: Ars Technica BetaNews Beyond Binary [...]
Seeking DVR & cable-spliter recommendations…
I’ve been looking at building myself a mega-media-center PC. Maybe a Linux MythTV, or Windows Vista MCE, or whatever, I haven’t really decided yet. Right now we have 3 or 4 VCRs hooked up in various rooms, and my wife tends to use a couple of them to record shows each night while we watch [...]
WPF Window “Native” Behavior: The Base Class
I wrote yesterday about the WPF Snap-To Behavor that I created, and showed you how simple it is, but I skipped over where the magic happens, so I thought I’d go through how I created the Native Behaviors collection class, because there are a few cool tricks in here that I wanted to share with [...]
Silverlight 2.0 and other things
Image via CrunchBase Well, Microsoft couldn’t wait until the PDC to release Silverlight 2, it’s out now! You can get Silverlight or you can get the developer version, and there’s tons of tools, including an Eclipse-based editor. Oh, and, did you hear that the next version of Windows is going to be astonishingly named … [...]
WPF Window “Native” Behavior: Snap-To Screen Edges
There are many desirable behaviors for Windows applications that are just much harder to do than they should be with the tools that Microsoft has provided in the .Net Framework. In WPF, many of these behaviors are even harder to create than in Windows Forms because the necessary hooks take a bit more work to [...]
On user interfaces, and command lines
I just discovered ubiquity, a Firefox plugin from Mozilla labs which is really just a sort-of alpha concept preview of a new command-line interface for the web browser that they are working on. It’s extremely cool Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. You should watch the video, the stuff they’re doing already is [...]