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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Did they just brand “tagging” and “forum”?

30-Mar-07

Doug Seven : Codename: Athens - RC Almost Baked: “”
Athens is made up of three pillars, Community Discovery Services, Community Membership Services, and Community Discussion Services.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I refer you to SecretGeek’s guide to how naming works at Microsoft.

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EFF and the designer

23-Mar-07

Scott Bellware [MVP] : BlogCoward: “However, there would still be problems source control conflicts, as the entity designer changes all the GUIDs for every object in the designer’s metadata file when any change is made. When two developers working on separate features both make small changes to the model through the designer, they get [...]

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Xul, Apollo, WPF, WPF/E No more

22-Mar-07

Save me from having to type more angle brackets. Please. I’m tired of $#@$@ angle brackets. My “,” and “.” keys are worn to a nub. My shift key is floppy and has no spring left.
No more angle-bracket based UI. EVER. Angle brackets are for giving structure to unstructured data.
Please, just let me use plain [...]

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Strange habits leftover

20-Mar-07

Whenever I start up an SSH connection or am waiting for a web site to load, sometimes I hit the return key a few times. It’s an old habit leftover from the olden days of modems. You hear the connection tones but don’t see any text coming across the screen. Hit return a few times [...]

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