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June 30, 2008
There has been a bit of pot-stirring on the blogs this weekend. Dare Obasanjo reflects on recent migrations of Google engineers to Microsoft, using the “e” word (exodus). Dion Almaer fires back, pointing out that people move between companies all the time, hardly justification for the “exodus”.
Both are right, and both are wrong.
First off, I [...]
Tags: career, Google, jobs, Microsoft, recruitment, workplace
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June 26, 2008
In the midst of writing some Silverlight code, something struck my funny bone: .NET has an Application.Current.
“Current” suggests “now”, and its existance suggests there was a need to distinguish “now” from something else. Does that mean there could be an Application.Next? Application.Future? Application.Past? Those could save me a lot of effort. How will I fix [...]
Tags: .NET, silliness, Silverlight
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June 25, 2008
In getting back up to speed with Silverlight, and in particular the new Silverlight 2 beta 2, I’ve been surfing through the many quickstart topics on various web sites. While skimming “Receiving Plain XML Messages with Silverlight” these words lept out at me:
note: The WebClient class does not currently support cross-domain calls.
Say what?
The article then [...]
Tags: cross-domain, Microsoft, Silverlight, XDR
Filed under: Programming, Web, Work |
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June 21, 2008
So here I am configuring my dev machine in Redmond from my laptop in my home office in Santa Cruz. I’m all VPN’d and security card authenticated up the wazoo, installing this and configuring that on the dev machine via Remote Desktop. (Praise be to RD!)
I get Hyper-V set up on the dev machine so I can [...]
Tags: Hyper-V, Remote Desktop, remote management, telecommuting, virtual machine
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June 18, 2008
Carnegie Mellon researchers have devised a photo analysis engine, IMG2GPS, that can make a guess as to the location of a photo based on similar photos found on Internet photo sharing web sites such as Flickr. The image analysis technique doesn’t dwell on identifying specific objects in the photo, but looks for similarities in lines and colors. Since [...]
Tags: computer vision, flickr, photography
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June 13, 2008
Latest figures from CDF are 600 acres burned, 10 homes destroyed, currently 25% contained. CDF says it’s likely they’ll reach 100% containment by Saturday, unless there is a major wind change. The burned acreage number dropped from last estimate because the air spotters can see more of the fire now that the smoke has thinned [...]
Tags: Bonny Doon fire
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June 12, 2008
For friends and family concerned about our proximity to the Bonny Doon wildfire: we’re ok. The fire area is about 5 miles south of our home (as of this writing) and heading south / southeast. It’s on the west side of Empire Grade Road that runs down the spine of Ben Lomond ridge, we’re on the east side [...]
Tags: Bonny Doon fire
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June 9, 2008
In all the excitement of getting oriented in the new digs at Microsoft, I almost missed the news that Silverlight 2 beta 2 has been released! You can get the goods from Silverlight.net. I found a nice overview of what Silverlight 2 and beta 2 have over on the GeekValley blog.
Lots to dig into in Silverlight [...]
Tags: Microsoft, Silverlight
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June 9, 2008
PicLens features prominently in this article in The Economist about the growing interest in rethinking how we visualize and interact with information on the web.
Tags: CoolIris, PicLens, reviews
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June 4, 2008
Om Malik notes YouTube exec Sashi Seth is now Cooliris chief revenue officer.
I’ve had the pleasure of talking with Sashi for the past few weeks at Cooliris, and have been impressed with his knowledge of the online advertising space and his drive to make things happen. Cooliris intends to pay the bills using advertising, but has been hampered by [...]
Tags: ads, CoolIris, PicLens, YouTube
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