Microsoft’s Language Choices Dare posted up the other day about Microsoft’s language choices and how they have “missed the boat” with some of today’s trendsetters. He mentions that Microsoft is too busy competing with Java and the JVM with C# and, as a result, other language/technology crowds aren’t receiving enough attention. He makes some good points, so definitely give it a read. I originally just commented on […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
IanG on the Avalon Input and Command Architecture Ian just put up a great, simple overview of Avalon’s input and command architecture. Having this type of stuff baked right into the framework just makes life so much easier for application/control developers. We get to focus on our specific problem rather than having to worry about all these silly plumbing problems. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Avalon MarkupExtension To Bind Directly To Another Element Instance In The Logical Tree This was a pretty interesting experiment. Ian Griffiths made a post to the Avalon NG asking why it wasn’t possible to just put the ID of a node into the Target property of a Label in XAML. The reason is because it’s a property that expects another FrameworkElement instance. So I created a custom MarkupExtension to provide […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Avalon Team Hiring Damn… another dream job offering. Unfortunately my commitment bars me from taking the red pill, but best of luck to anyone that attempts to pounce on this opportunity and just know in advance: I’m jealous. 😛 Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Mimeo.com Named A Red Herring 100 Company My company, Mimeo.com, has been named a Red Herring 100 company (press release). That puts us amongst ninety-nine other private companies who are changing the face of their respective markets. It’s an honor to even be mentioned as a finalist let alone actually end up on the list. I remember when this company was just a few […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
IE7 To Have Tabbed Browsing Yes, it’s official, IE7 has tabbed browsing. Personally I hate tabbed browsing. I like finding my windows via the task bar and am a very strict about my window management in general. That said, I realize I must be in the minority, so I hope the rest of the world is now happy and will […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Chris Anderson Avalon Interview An interview with Chris Anderson just went up over on Channel 9 where he talks about the “nuts and bolts” of Avalon. If you’re the type of person that likes to know how the pixels end up on the screen then this is the video to watch. Topics discussed: How Avalon sits on DirectX and User32 The Avalon stack: […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
IronPython Becoming The Official Scripting Language for AvPad Chris Anderson is jumping on the Python bandwagon and is building support into AvPad for IronPython as a scripting language. Pretty interesting stuff. In his latest post, he has extended IronPython to support ICustomTypeDescriptor so that you can interrogate an IronPython object at runtime and discover properties that may have been added on the fly. The main […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
The First Time I Can Remember Winning Anything I received notification this morning that I won tickets from a KROCK contest (local radio station here in NYC) to go see Coldplay at a private showing at the Beacon theatre. I had been trying for about a week to win and finally got lucky last Friday for the six o’clock drawing. I’ve been a Colplay fan for a […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth Any other NIN fans out there? I bought With Teeth from MSN Music when it was released Tuesday this week. Absolutely amazing… love it. The Hand That Feeds is the single for the album, but my favorite song on there (so far) has to be All The Love In The World. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
