Avalon March CTP Documentation Update, Brief Change Log From Personal Observations The documentation for the March CTP of Avalon has been released. I assume we can expect the actual SDK to be released soon. Here’s a brief change log that I’ve started gathering on my own, I will continue to expand the article over time. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Aero Not Based On Avalon? Scoble says Aero is not based on Avalon. I’m not so sure about that. To the best of my knowledge it is. I mean, it’s entirely possible that it’s not since it could skirt around Avalon and talk directly to DirectX and/or the Longhorn Display Driver Model (LDDM) itself, but then that would mean that I’ve […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Avalon: March ’05 CTP Change Log Commentary There have been several changes between the November ’04 drop of the Avalon CTP and the March ’05 drop. This article aims to offer a list with some insight on each of those changes. For a list of what’s changed with each update I make, click here. Update List: (hide) 3/16/051:20AM Added VisualBrush detail Added […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
A Rebuttal Of Mr. Grimes’ Avalon -> Win32 Ties Accusation I’m sure we’ve all seen Richard’s commentary on the state of .NET as well as Dan Fernandez’s rebuttal. If not, go read those first. Since the subject has already been talked to death from the .NET framework perspective, the only thing that I wanted to address is the assertion that Richard makes in his follow up comment […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Shipping Apples Vs. Oranges Ok, so I was reading /.’s coverage of Mark Lucovsky jumping ship from MS to Google. Naturally I expected the typical anti-MS spin and of course it was there, but in the form of link to an entry on Mark’s blog about Microsoft not being very good at shipping software. In this entry Mark analyzes the way […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Mozilla/FireFox Not Written By Magical Software Elves After All Now, I loooove Mozilla/FireFox and am so happy that there’s such a great alternative to IE (especially since it’s available on other platforms) so this isn’t a knock on the technology. It’s targeted at the people who like to pretend that the Mozilla/FireFox codebase is somehow blessed by the software gods to be completely free of flaws/vulnerabilities. The realists in this industry […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Adobe Open Sources Adam and Eve Adobe has open sourced a couple libraries they’re working on called Adam and Eve. From my brief skim through the overview, both libraries essentially sound like they aim to provide a cross platform architecture that is somewhat equivalent to what Avalon is going to deliver for Windows. Adam, for example, sounds somewhat like the DependencyObject + DependencyProperty + Expression features of […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? So what do you do when someone blantantly wants to rip off your company’s entire service? Here’s a google cache just in case it disappears. My favorite part of the listing is that the lister expects the whole thing to be done in 30days. Good luck I say. 🙂 Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
JScript[.NET] Support for E4X? This post goes out to whoever in Microsoft might be able to shed some light on the subject: When, if at all, can we expect to see support for E4X in JScript[.NET]? My main reason for asking is because Mozilla recently added support for it to their ECMAScript implementation and I can already see the same […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Yahoo Web Service APIs Well Yahoo has released their search engine web service APIs. The fact that they chose to ignore industry standard communication protocols (SOAP + WS-*) was just a bad decision IMHO. Now all the toolkits that exist for various languages/frameworks are useless in helping the programmer develop against these APIs and everyone must roll their own […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail