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Review Quantum Whale editor..
[this honestly was unsolicited.. I can’t believe I missed this gem amongst the upgrade notices that I periodically get..]
Several years ago, I somehow was given a license to Quantum Whale’s Editor.Net. It was part of one a “freebie” program that a tools catalog that I used. Since that time I have been getting a free updates. Today on a whim I decided to take a look at the product (it only took me 4 years I think).
All I can say is wow! I knew it was an editor component (and now so do you), but I figured .Net 1.1 with...
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MiX09 personal note..
I feel a need to talk about something probably because my intense Introvert side is totally exhausted from the parties i have been in recently (or rather socially exhausted). So, there is a joke that someone around me keeps saying to me just to give me a hard time. He keeps implying that there are those on the internet whom i’ve so offended with some of my stances that i am hated.. The exchange usually is something along the lines “you know that really hate me..” the first time my response was with great alarm and then i...
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why we do love ScottGu..
i’ve been thinking about something.. After the MIX09 keynote yesterday, i have been pondering my own general love/like of ScottGu (aka Scott Guthrie aka “The Gu”). What is it about this guy really. i actually tweeted as he arrived on stage after a hilarious video that “ScottGu arrived like the rock star he is!” What is it that evokes this kind of emotion from me? i think it’s how unassuming he really is. i mean the guy doesn’t strike you like say Scott Hanselman (ScottHa) does. If you ever meet ScottHa you will instantly recognize that he is...
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MIX09 Keynote with ScottGu and Bill buxton (live)
It’s starting! Bill Buxton is now on the stage… WOW! great speaker! Industrial designers are related to design today. Time for innovation in design. Most of these guys he mentions are during the great depression. Today is the time for design. Industrial design is experience design. We need to refocus.. on experience. You don’t aspire to have a thing. You aspire to use it. Where is the adrenaline in that object? That is what you want to evoke. You can sketch. (Asks us to draw his phone and then its interface). Design is about rapid iterations/concepts...
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Web state backup/restore..
This is an item that i just thought of that is on my wish list of tools to find. i’m sure that if you maintain a web site of any size you have a service that emails you errors or logs them into a database or there is a combination log with an emailed report. At my day job we have something like this. We have a couple issues where we have no idea what they are. Mainly because data can change a lot in this particular area, but we’re not 100% sure that this is the case. ...
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TUX Tomorrow night
Tomorrow night at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30) I am presenting on MS Ajax and Services. This is a pretty important topic in the Ajax space because it’s sometimes the difference between a slow web site with Ajax and a fast one. Shawn Cady will also be presenting the next talk in his “What is UX” series (which is defining what TUX is all about). Also, newly minted (first ever Silverlight MVP) Bill Reiss will be with us. Bill has a really cool new project that he’s going to show to us as well (if you...
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The most infruriating SQL server issue…
Tonight, I’m trying to put together a few demos for my talk on Wed. As I’m working on it, I realized that one of my demos requires SQL Server and Northwind… I’ve faced this one before with SQL 2005, and thought I knew everything I needed to know. You might be scratching your head thinking “what the heck is he talking about.” I’m talking about how SQL 2005/2008 use a couple users that you might not be aware of. You find out about them when you go to attach an older DB like Northwind. What happens is that when you...