September 2005 - Posts
BizTalk Visionary wrote:
During “Keynote" audiance advised they would have the chance to buy the iMate
JASJAR (normall $1100) for $149. This meant some people bailed out to go and
buy. The majority stayed and watched - of course. Only 1000 available so sold
out while the majority watched the keynote. This really sucks. Microsoft should
have had enough for all to buy.
I totally agree on this. While those leaving the keynote can buy all the devices, the others are penalized for staying.
Tags: PDC05
The sidebar's back. Microsoft presented it to us two years ago, but
in succeeding CTPs it was gone. Now it's back and you can add so-called
gadgets. To speak
in Apple terms, think of sidebar and gadgets as dashboard and widgets.
You can write own your gadgets using WPF or DHTML, and they even
launched Microsoft Gadgets yesterday, a site dedicated to gadget development.
Tags: PDC05
Steve Sinchak points to a post by Brad Wardell, that Microsoft has released a preliminary version of the Vista User Experience guidelines:
According to Brad Wardell's blog on JoeUser.com, Microsoft has released a
preliminary version of the UX guidelines to help developers write applications
that look and take advantage of the new Vista glass user experience.
The UX guidelines are a series of web pages that can be downloaded directly
from Microsoft. For those of you that do not want to download the web pages, I
have placed all of them up on my web server for everyone to view.
Click Here to view the
UX Guidelines
Click
Here to download the UX Guidelines form Microsoft
Read Full Story at Brad Wardell's
Blog
Today we got The Goods, almost 30GB of geek stuff. It's a box containing 6 DVD's:
- Windows Vista Beta 1 (incl. SDK)
- Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2
- SQL Server 2005 June CTP, Virtual PC 2004, Virtual Server 2005 R2 Beta, Windows Server 2003 R2 RC0
- WinFX plus other stuff such as whitepapers
- Windows Vista CTP: PDC05
- Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" CTP: PDC05
But wait, something missing here. There are only 5 discs in my box, no Longhorn Server. I think I have to object that tomorrow.
Anyway, lots of cool stuff to play aroud with.
Update: I was informed that we'll get the sixth disc tomorrow. Sorry for any inconveniences.
Tags: PDC05
The journey was a mess. My flight from Düsseldorf on Saturday was
scheduled for 7:15am. Unfortunately, it was cancelled, and the next
flight was at 2:05pm, so I had to kill nearly 7 hours at the airport. I
arrived in LA at 19:00 local time, more than 28 hours after I get up in
Germany. I used Sunday and Monday for some sightseeing, I visited the
Rodeo Drive, Hollywood, Venice, and Santa Monica. If someone wants to
offer me a job in LA, well, don't hesitate to contact me ;-)
Anyway, meanwhile it's Tuesday morning, and I already had my breakfast
in the LACC. Thirty minutes left till PDC officially starts with the keynotes of Bill Gates and
Jim Allchin...
I'm cleaning up my desk at the moment and preparing my laptop as I did the last time before I'll leave tomorrow.
BTW, I'll stay in the Omni Plaza.
In an addin I'm writing for CommunityServer I'm using a job. A
job in the CommunityServer perspective is a task which is executed
periodically. Since I have had some trouble with my job, I needed a way
to monitor whether my job is executed properly. Scott Watermasysk has posted a simple ASPX page
some time ago to get the status of all jobs configured in CS. Since I'm
a lazy guy I integrated this code into the CommunityServer
administration interface and additionally added a page for displaying the email queue:
You only have to copy the two ASPX files to /admin/system/tools/ and add them to the /admin/Tab.config. Additionally, you have to add the following entries to the end of your resources.xml, right before the closing </root> element.
<resource name="Admin_Jobs_Title">Jobs</resource>
<resource name="Admin_Jobs_SubTitle">Here you will find a list of all configured jobs.</resource>
<resource name="Admin_EmailQueue_Title">Email Queue</resource>
<resource name="Admin_EmailQueue_SubTitle">Here you will find a list of all enqueued emails.</resource>
You can download the ASPX files and the modified Tab.config file here.
Two days ago my girl friend and I returned from our vacation on Fuerteventura.
Most of the time we were hanging around at the beach or the hotel's
pool, but we have rented a Jeep for three days to explore the island.
Though Fuerteventura is a relatively deserted island, I love this
minimalistic landscape. If you're looking for quiet and recreative vacation, I can really recommend this island.
I'm now back in Germany for three two days. On Saturday I'll take
off to LA to attend the PDC. I'll arrive on Saturday afternoon, so
after having a good night's rest I am going use Sunday and Monday to
explore LA before the PDC starts on Tuesday.