A f a n t a s t i c writer. His stories so delicate and deep and geek appealing. Got to read him through Hofstadter, I loved his work; even before getting to profoundly appreciate his people. He’s gone. Thank you for the nice moments you gave the world, pan Lem.
With the new Vista Carousel control we discover that Windows are not tied to a 2D plane, but they can happily spin around in 3D space. Probably thanks to a really bad digestion, yesterday I found myself wondering how the back of a window [should] look like: if you rotate it more than…
I was just presenting to my wife the material for my next webcast on Infocard, and I realized I haven’t blogged about it! Actually, the webcast is going to be on WF, WCF & Infocard in Financial Services. This time the most excellent Marc will take care of the first 2, while for Infocard…
Longhorn Server. The ideal host for all the stuff I usually preach about from here, as we all know architecture can’t live in a vacuum… and if you thought that it is still too far for thinking about how to leverage it, well, it’s probably the right moment to reconsider [:)] 2007 is…
You asked for it, it’s here. Check out the excellent article from our own Mike Jones about how to use Infocard within web apps and with the browser: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/infocardwebguide.asp
The p2p capabilities in Vista and WCF are going to have a HUGE impact. The chance of leveraging physical proximity for setting up spontaneous meshes is truly mind boggling: imagine what you could do by walking in a crowded waiting room, on a train, in a hotel lobby, at Starbucks… even when you’re…
I’m on a crazy schedule on a trip in Asia, but this deservers stopping few minutes a blogging about it 🙂 Some weeks ago I had Kirill and Jorgen in my office for talking about the WCF Interop Plug-Fest: me and Marc took them by surprise, by pulling out a videocam and recording…