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I don't believe there are any outside of Microsoft who can actually call themselves a WILY developer, but I thought I'd pass on the acronym. Kent Tegels has been using it for awhile as a way to categorize blog entries on W hidbey, I ndigo, L onghorn and

Paul Thurrott of Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows fame will be speaking tomorrow night at the Huntsville New Technology User Group to celebrate their sixth anniversary. I've never personally heard Paul speak, but for all of the effort he has put

Feedster has setup a Longhorn Feedpaper It should be interesting to see the results that show compared to the basic search feed for longhorn and xaml Just the other day, I was talking about how blogs and RSS are like the first cars. It was much better

Following up on the wallpaper thread on Channel9, I've created my own version of the Channel9 avatar. Sure was nice to get back into Photoshop, its been a bit dusty lately. Available in: 1600x1200 1024x800 800x600

I just finished listening to the .NET Rocks! MS Longhorn Evangelism team episode . Let me start off by saying, I'm a big .NET Rocks! fan. I don't think I've said it before, but its definitely an entertaining and informative show. And when you're sitting

Ian Bettridge has a nice conversation going on in his comments section about Miguel de Icaza's Why Longhorn Matters post . Its nice when you can hear from Mac users who are beyond the "MICROSOFT SUXXORS!" mode. “Regardless of what you may think

Miguel de Icaza talks about Longhorn and Planning for the Future. I like how he doesn't discount Longhorn just because the features may have been done already in some form of open-source, but realizes the power, in what I mentioned earlier as implementation

Although MeetUps rarely happen in my area ( Fort Wayne, IN ), I thought I would pass along the latest MeetUp I have signed up for. http://sqlserver.meetup.com/ Currently only ten members, this must be a new group. Our user group does not have enough members

So via Feedster I found a new article on XAML entitled A Standards-based Look at XAML's Features . The problem is it looks interesting, but its a Premier Club Only article and I would have to pay $10 a month to get into the club. I guess I have become

I found out yesterday, I am on my way to Tech-Ed in San Diego this year. I haven't been to Tech-Ed since 2000, so this should be a real different experience. I've changed a lot and so have my responsibilities at work. I imagine I will be able to get a

Adam Young wrote up an article on DevX on how you can use XAML in .NET today. He has come up with an interesting solution using the classes in the System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters namespace to parse actual XAML files. A custom section is used in

There's some interesting commentary going on over at OSNews.com in response to my Chronicles of a WinFX Developer article. There's a post in their comparing the new features of Longhorn and C# to existing open source technologies. Sounds interesting,

Stuart Celarier, a man who seems to be missing a blog, has done a lot of work on the Developer FAQ for Longhorn posted on MSDN. Tonight he has initiated the development of the XAML Manifesto on Channel9. He has listed a few topics to start with, that

I am digging the new Channel 9 site. At first glance I was kind lost and thinking it was a bit disjointed, but I think it has definite potential. Some initial thoughts listed below: The videos are the best. Very original content that adds some extra Gu

I signed up to participate as the MS XAML representative in the Xul Grand Coding Challenge 2004 . The challenge includes creating a counter , calculator and one freestyle entry. Should be interesting entering a contest with pre-alpha technology…

Yesterday, Chris Sells shared Joe Marini's all XAML aggregator Bloghorn with the world. This is a great example of how a little XAML can go along way. And it leads me to wonder when Longhorn comes out how the “home hacker” world is going to

In the microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.sdk news group the Avalon SDK team has begun posting Performance Tips. They're great nice short notes that include sample code. Perfect for a blog entry. Avalon SDK team, why don't you setup a blog on LonghornBlogs

Microsoft unveiled its new XNA game development platform yesterday. The platform and tools act as a common programming environment for PC and XBOX games. Hopefully by paying attention to what's going on here, I'll find some idea of the direction of DirectX

I've seen all of the talk today about VS2005 now available on MSDN, but I am wondering how well this will work with Longhorn and the Longhorn SDK? Should I go to the trouble of uninstalling the Longhorn SDK and then installing the VS2005 bits? At this

In a Scoble-like blog success story, Marc Clifton has started a blog “to chronicle the adventures of MyXaml “, after a conversation in the comments of my MyXaml entry . Now keeping track of MyXaml's progress will be a whole lot easier. I also