Community Server

About a year ago, I got nutty and bought a beautiful 15" PowerBook G4. I had been running OS X in an emulator, I was teaching myself Rails and, to a certain extent, I was bored of XP. I gave in to some strange, the other--I committed to switching my...

I've been reading a fair bit of the Origami/UMPC hype. Alexandria actually looks more intriguing to me. Intel looks to be staging a partner site to build an enthusiast community around the device. It's running off of Community Server (hide that fav.ico...

I had really spent any time using VSTS Beta 2 bits for Whidbey--sadly enough, I just don't have the cycles lately. In putting about, however, I was really enamored with the fact that the unit testing functionality in the IDE was even more seamless...

Via Mike Gunderloy's Daily Grind, I was reading about Office 12 possibly making some of its interface elements even more task contextual. The old people-don't-use-even-a-fraction-of-Office's-functionality chestnut reared its head. And what's the point...

For whatever reason I was looking at some of the smart client work Realtime Enterprises was touting on their site.The Book Avis Outlook add-in elicited a half-typical response.Let's preface this: I think this is inherently cool. That said, it may not...

MSDN's new pattern workspace is yet another promising development from Redmond, it's nice to see them putting significant resources into the space. So yes I appreciate it... but does anyone realize that just about every dang FlexWiki site out there (with...

Well the 096 source doesn't compile, but it did take nearly 8 minutes to figure out why. There were actual syntax errors checked into vaultpub by someone random person. Once you fix those issues, remove and then re-add one reference, the whole solution...

I'm sort of oblivious to these things because my job's not as fun as Scott's, inasmuch as I don't get to work on fun things like CS during the day. Someone forwarded me a post about things people have written about 0.96 and .Text's future in general....

At work, I've been interviewing candidates for full-time and contract roles. To put things in perspective, I feel like I know a very small slice of what I need to know. Then again, I always feel like this, so maybe it's the right kind of motivation as...

We went to see one of the Pixes "last" shows back in December over at Hammerstein. Someone asked me if it was good afterwards. I made a mental note to catalog among some of the stupidest questions ever posed in my presence.Of course it was good. Double...

For the record: Google hammering the Groups interface in their new GMail direction is awful. They've been smart not to do a lot with the Groups search interface since they acquired Deja. Tried to use the new version today to track down the kinds of things...

New job, all the attendant new job ramp-up stuff; total wild west; nutshell: way busy.Randomly noted: Watched Hero the other night: better than Crouching Tiger. Thirteen is like a watered-down LA version of Kids; would have been an awesome afterschool...

I think it's semi-humorous to see serious posts all over the place about C# support for Edit and Continue being added to Visual Studio 2005. WFC?To hear people wax dogmatic about it, it's either the antithesis of quality-focused TDD development and will...

Via Mike Gunderloy (who pound-for-pound I think might be the most useful feed in all the subscribable land):Former Dot-Com Commerce One Eyes Closure - Remember Commerce One? They used to be worth $20 billion back when we were all insane. Now they're down...

I'm having a nearly endless series of Dilbert moments over here at your neighborhood technology monolith. I can say a ton of positive things about working here, I really can. I can also see why Scott Adams speaks to so many people's vocational hearts....

I went to Ground Zero this afternoon to pay my respects and to remember the tragic losses and epic heroism that the site saw on that fateful day. It's something I've made a habit of doing.Based on the crowds today, the trend towards the observance of...

I installed TestRunner for NUnit because I've never been wild about the existing NUnit add-ins available--it just feels only half integrated and when things start to get flaky in the IDE the clunkiest add-in is going to be the first thing I disable or...

James Avery wrote a BlogJet BlogThis context menu handler for FireFox. Right now it's married to a default install path on the C:\ drive. The code to pull a registry value in a FireFox extension could look about like the following right now. function...

I'll repost my thoughts about comment control here because its a horizontal notion that applies to other applications in this space....

Tomas Restrepo posted about Anonymous as a monospaced editor font. I'm always interested to see the monospaced fonts people are willing to use. As with any editing font there are some basic requirements: I don't want quirky, it needs to be legible in...

I have a self-confessed IDE add-in dependency. My mother subjected me to a cruel and unusual selectric-torture regimen as a lad that involved lots of repetitive typing, underroos and the threat of a  Burmese tiger trap. I really don't want to relive it...

I just sort of stumbled upon this patterns & practices announcement. Obviously the prospect of an "Enterprise Library" was of interest, but from reading the documents it looks just like a repackaging of the existing application blocks. In reading...

Well not really, not for this part of the world and not for me. Three things that surprised me today and one that didn't: 1. There are no real NAnt tasks for Subversion. I get by with some tasks, but I'm surprised these aren't floating around. There...

I don't know beans about developing Firefox extensions, but Stuart Hamilton's right-click subscribe-in-Newsgator extension was much welcomed over here where it seems like we're looking for any available reason to lapse back into IE. Somewhere around...

Template syntax for a timeboxed hard marker is «HardMarker(n)» where n is logically the number of seconds until expiry. Better still Mark Miller, the father of CodeRush, has a blog. I was playing with CR mouse binding and markers in my own CR plugin...