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July 29, 2008
I’m slowly gaining ground in the war against paper. I’m a packrat, which immediately calls into question the structural integrity of my house and garage. However, I’ve discovered that technology transcends the limitations of corporeal space. I can still hoard precious tidbits for posterity in digital form without risking premature burial under collapsing stacks of […]
Tags: digital packrat, Live Mesh, Microsoft, paperless billing, personal archiving, wishlists
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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 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
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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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May 28, 2008
Curious title… ring any bells? No, not the story by Edgar Allen Poe. I wrote an article a long time ago (2 years, 1 month, and 12 days) with this title to announce my joining the Windows Live team at Microsoft.
I worked from my home in Santa Cruz (California), working with my team in Redmond (Washington). […]
Tags: Chuck Jazdzewski, CoolIris, Microsoft, telecommuting, Visual Studio
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November 2, 2007
Here are a few observations from my first 10 minutes of surfing around in the Google OpenSocial API docs.
Google OpenSocial has two sets of APIs: JavaScript for web pages, and ATOM / REST style APIs for server apps or “installed client” (non-browser, presumably native code) apps.
The ATOM/REST APIs are collectively called the OpenSocial Data […]
Tags: Google, Microsoft, OpenSocial, Programming
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October 30, 2007
When I announced my departure from Microsoft, LiveSide.net observed that I wasn’t alone in my decision to make a change, nor in my timing. LiveSide noted a few other Microsofties exiting in late September/early October, as did Mary Jo Foley in her ZDNet column. Both articles were professional and well-written and stayed away from […]
Tags: Microsoft
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