Visual Studio Live Conference – Day 3
By their own admission, the organizers tried to squeeze most interesting stuff into the first two days, so the third day was less agile and prone to repetition of the […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (the end)
jQuery vs AJAX toolkit. It turns out Microsoft ditched AJAX libraries of its own (ASP.NET AJAX, MS Ajax Library, AJAX control toolkit) in favor of jQuery. AJAX control toolkit is […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (next part)
Rocky Lhotka gave a nice and quite deep speech on how we, regular software developers, can prepare ourselves to the brave new world of Metro and Windows 8. The trouble […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (continued)
Metro UX Design Guidelines. This class gave somewhat less technical perspective on all things Metro. According to the new religion, full screen is actually good for you. Show content, not […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2
Keynote was given today by two people: a senior manager from Microsoft and a CEO of a partner company. It’s funny that they refer to the whole event as “show”, […]
Visual Studio Live New York Day 1 (Non-Technical)
I was a little late for the keynote @8AM, but I don’t think I missed much. I expected some kind of strategic speech, but it was yet another demo with […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1 (continued)
WinRT Internals. WinRT runtime is a completely new set of classes available out of the box and usable in all 3 supported Metro environments, namely CLR (with C#/VB), WinJS (with […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1
Attended a bunch of session about WPF and WinRT/Metro. A couple of points: Windows. The schizophrenic operating system with two start screens is here to stay. They openly admit it, […]
Torvalds and Git
Whatever you might think of Torvalds personally, this (Wikipedia) is downright impressive. The development of Git began on 3 April 2005.[12] The project was announced on 6 April, and became […]
LiveJournal CrossPoster test
The old Live+Press plugin is not holding water anymore. I patched it several times, but as WordPress evolves, it keeps falling behind. Time to move to something new.