September 2006 - Posts

Yahoo HackDay Demos

Here is a video from the first half of the Hacks presented at Yahoo Hack Day.


The Demos from HackDay

 

posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 11:03 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Tag HackDay

 

 

 

posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:20 AM by paul with 0 Comments

ZoneTag and Upcoming Hacks

In the last session of the day at Yahoo! Hack Day Gordon Link told us about how to access the API's of Upcoming.org so we'll know where to go.

Jeannie Yang gave us the inside story of ZonTag, a Moblie - Photo - Location, Location, Location - anywhere you want it idea. 

 
posted Friday, September 29, 2006 10:15 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Yahoo! HackDay Keynote

For the first time ever Yahoo has invited developers from outside the company over to their house and we're staying the weekend with lot's of fun and sharing going on.

Bradley Horowitz kicked it off with a what are we doing Keynote and I just happened to have the video camera handy, so click on the photo and have a look.

9/29/06 at the Yahoo! Hack Day

posted Friday, September 29, 2006 6:03 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Intel Shop Talk 2.0

Here is a video of the second Shop Talk with the Intel Fellows. Intel Experts Participating at IDF Shop Talk

Knut S. Grimsrud, Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group; Director, Storage Architecture

Ajay V. Bhatt, Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group; Director, Platform Components and Interconnects Architecture

John H. Crawford, Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group; Director, Itanium Architecture

Kevin C. Kahn, Intel Senior Fellow, Corporate Technology Group; Director, Communications Technology Lab

David J. Kuck, Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group; Director, Parallel and Distributed Solutions Division

Raj Yavatkar, Intel Fellow, Corporate Technology Group; Director, Systems Technology Lab

Brendan Traw , Intel Fellow, Digital Home Group; Chief Technology Officer, Digital Home Group


posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:36 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Software Threading

From the Intel Developer Forum  in San Francisco Richard B Wirt a Senior Fellow and GM of the Software and Solutions Group gave a talk on Software Threading - making your applications multi-thread capable.

Click on the photo to see the video of the talk;

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posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:07 PM by paul with 0 Comments

User Centered Design

Creating a User-Centered Design Process
The world of engineering and technology is traditionally one of finding solutions to technical problems or opportunities. This is a world rooted in the hard sciences and expressed in numbers, mathematical equations, formulas or algorithms, where product teams often make tradeoffs in an attempt to find balanced solutions to conflicting requirements.

Herman D'Hooge gave a talk at the Intel Developer Forum on People Centered Design Innovation

 Click on the photo or here to see the video of this talk

posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:34 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Mobile Trends and Technologies

Mobile Trends and Technologies for the Future was the title of this panel and I got it recorded for everybody to see...


9/27/06 Intel Developer Forum San Francisco

posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:51 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Intel Fellows Shop Talk

Intel Fellows Shop Talk Video was an exclusive gathering of Intel Senior Fellows and Intel Fellows who discussed hard-core questions and provide answers on key technology topics

Featured Shop Talk Speakers:

Stephen S. Pawlowski, host/moderator (Technology Insight Speaker)
Intel Senior Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group; Chief Technology Officer, Digital Enterprise Group; General Manager, Architecture and Planning

Knut S. Grimsrud, Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group; Director, Storage Architecture

Ajay V. Bhatt, Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group; Director, Platform Components and Interconnects Architecture

John H. Crawford, Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group; Director, Itanium Architecture

Kevin C. Kahn, Intel Senior Fellow, Corporate Technology Group; Director, Communications Technology Lab

P. Geoffrey Lowney, Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group; Director, Compiler and Architecture Advanced Development

David J. Kuck, Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group; Director, Parallel and Distributed Solutions Division

Raj Yavatkar, Intel Fellow, Corporate Technology Group; Director, Systems Technology Lab

Click on the photo to view the video from the Intel Developer Forum


posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:36 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Quad Core

 
At the Intel Developer Forum in Sunny San Francisco today we got a look at the first Quad-Core Microprocessor, coming soon to a server then PC near you!
 
Click on the photo or here to play the video of Intel's Steve Smith at the Press Briefing on Quad Core.
posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:08 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Digital Advertising Solutions

Look who is at the center of the new digital Media.

Engaging an audience, finding your audience and making an impact.

Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions

Turn reach into relationships—target the vast pool of internet-savvy MSN and Windows Live users.

Be one of the first advertisers to engage with the highly desirable Xbox and Office Online audience.

I'm still waiting for ads by Microsoooooooft on this blog.

posted Monday, September 25, 2006 9:32 AM by paul with 0 Comments

VB.Net Power Packs

Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs

Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Components, and Tools for you to use with Visual Basic 2005 to make developing great applications even easier.

Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0
This toolkit helps you bring the power of .NET to your existing Visual Basic 6 applications, by allowing them to display .NET WinForms from within the same application. Instead of upgrading the entire code base, these applications can now be extended one form at a time. The goal is a phased upgrade, with production releases at the end of each iteration containing both Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET forms running in the same Visual Basic 6 .exe process.

Microsoft PrintForm Component 1.0
The PrintForm component is designed to bring back the ability to easily print a Windows Form. With this the new PrintForm component, you can once again lay out the Windows Form exactly as you want it and allow your users to print the form as a quick report.

Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack Suggestion Center
Do you have a great idea for a new Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack? Let us know by submitting and voting for ideas at the Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack Suggestion Center.

posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:19 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Peas in a Pod

             

    Open up the Pod bay door HAL......I can't Paul, Pod it's an Apple Trademark now.......

posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:34 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Windows Vista Developer Story

The Windows Vista wave of products and technologies renews Microsoft's focus on enabling the development of modern applications, whether they are existing applications written to Win32, the unmanaged programming model for the Microsoft Windows operating system, or new applications taking full advantage of .NET Framework 3.0 formerly WinFX, the managed programming model for Microsoft Windows Vista. Microsoft is doing this by focusing on three main concepts:

Make it simple to cover the basics. Windows Vista makes it easier to deploy, update, and manage your applications by introducing improvements that make it easier for developers to build applications that meet the needs of today's IT departments.

Enable the creation of stronger customer connections. Knowing how your customers are using the application you created—the problems they are encountering and the things that they like—is critical to improving your application from version to version. Windows Vista introduces technologies that enable developers to instrument their applications, so that they can find out what's going wrong and what's going right while still protecting user privacy.

Differentiate and explore new opportunities. Whether you want your application to stand out in the crowd or want to build an entirely new kind of application, Windows Vista has technologies that will help you. Windows Vista provides a new presentation subsystem, new technologies to integrate voice and video into your applications, and new peer networking technologies. These improvements enable you to create innovative new experiences that will excite your users and make them want more!

Windows Vista Developer Story

Windows Vista Developer Center

posted Friday, September 22, 2006 10:23 AM by paul with 0 Comments

While your Waiting

Tip/Trick: UpdateProgress Control and AJAX Activity Image Animations

One of the cool new controls provided with the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions aka Atlas is the UpdateProgress control.  This control allows you to automatically cause UI to display on a page while an AJAX callback is in progress, and also allows you to provide UI to enable a user to optionally cancel the AJAX callback if it is taking too long.  To use this control on a page, simply declare it like so:

    atlas:UpdateProgress ID="progress1" runat="server">
        ProgressTemplate>
        
            div class="progress">
                img src="indicator.gif" /> 
                Please Wait...
            div>
        
        ProgressTemplate>
    atlas:UpdateProgress>

ScottG has links to sites where you can download spinning gears and progress icons that you can use, he has a few examples ticking over on his blog.

posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:54 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Interop a Flop

In the past three years I have attended over a hundred conferences including three Interips, two in Las Vegas and the first New York show. No one did more to help Interop succeed in it's first New York show then I did, Interop is coming to Town,  Interop New York,  I also make announcements in my SQL, SharePoint and Enterprise Windows user groups.  

This year everything changed, CMP Media acquired Media Live and moved the show to September rather then December, which was a good time becaues of Christmas shopping.  Then CMP Media began producing cheesey plastic blogs of their own without any readers.  We're blogging - LOL.   What if they gave a conference and nobody came?

Less then half of the vendors who were in Las Vegas in May bothered to show up and very few people travled to New York to attend Interop.  I only bumped into two people I knew and we have a huge Tech community in New York.

You could have rolled a bolling ball down the isles of the Exhibition Hall and not touched a soul.

Just for a laugh have a look at their webcams, lots of servers and chars, but no people!

I spoke to Ben Stricker the Interop PR guy a month ago, but he didn't want my help, turns out he had cheesey plastic blogs and PodTech ready to do puff pieces for him.

posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:03 PM by paul with 2 Comments

Soapbox

make your statement

MSN Launches Beta of Soapbox on MSN Video 

 

Microsoft has at last entered the Video sharing space with MSN's Soapebox, all you need is one of those Passports to start your uploads.

Standby…

We’re glad you’re ready to try Soapbox on MSN Video.

For right now, our beta testing program is full—but we really want you to be a part of this.  So if you give us your e-mail address, we’ll let you know when you’ll be able to join in. 

Soon you’ll be able to upload your own videos, watch those made by other contributors, post comments on what you’ve seen, and much more. We'll also let you know when we make product improvements. Your e-mail address will be used only for this beta and related updates.

Important note: The Soapbox beta is only available in English at this time.

Thank you for adding your e-mail to the waitlist. We'll send you an invitation when you are able to join!     -

 BETA: "Warhol" is coming!

Is this the swan song of the MSN Butterfly? I'm suprised that this video service isn't branded with Live!

posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:50 AM by paul with 0 Comments

OneWebDay

OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the world -  celebrate the Web and what it means to us indivudialy and in communities.

This Friday, September 22 is the day set aside for OneWebDay and hopefully we'll remember to do it again every year. 

People around the world are coming up with their own ways of celebrating our Web on OneWebDay. We know the Web has changed everythying by giving us access to so much information and enableing us to conect others to information as we add to and try to make sence of it all..

Check-out the OneWebDay Wiki and see if anything is happening in your town  As it's a Wiki anyone can sign-in and create ideas for cool things to do on OneWebDay.

Hey, it's on a Friday, so we can all drink a beer and toast the WWW.

I be in New York City with that other Morristown High grad Craig, so put your name on the list!

posted Monday, September 18, 2006 7:59 PM by paul with 0 Comments

SharePoint Resource

Over on CodePlex today I found a wealth of projects tagged with SharePoint. Webparts you can use or adapt to your needs, if you have something your working on add it to the site and maybe the community can help make it better. 

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Software Development Kit may also come in handy.

Keep-up with what's going on with the SharePoint Community.

posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:57 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Windows Mobile Labs

Now all the Labs I didn't have time to take at the MEDC are up on MSDN for anyone and everyone to learn from.

The Best of MEDC Virtual Labs have gone Live!

Nice job Windows Mobile Team!

posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 7:23 PM by paul with 0 Comments