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PDC 2008 – Day 1

The keynote at this year’s PDC was perhaps the most uninspiring one I’ve seen in the 15 years I’ve been attending these events. It wasn’t bad and the announcements were quite significant. It was just...

PDC 2008 – Day Zero

I arrived in Los Angles around 2:00 pm today for Microsoft’s Professional Development Conference. After a 26 mile cab ride from the Airport to the hotel, I scooted over to the convention center to pick...

Calendar Gadget Alpha Released

Calendar Gadget is an experiment in window-less controls I started back about 3 years ago. Things were humming along pretty nicely when I got distracted with this whole ASP.Net and blogging thing. I really didn’t...

Friday Links #22

ePrintableCalendars: Free Printable Calendars – Sometimes you just need a blank calendar. Simple and to the point. Ungeek To Live: Go Local for Custom Letterpress Work On-the-Cheap – This is such a cool idea. I...

Desk Drive 1.6.7 Released

Desk Drive 1.6.7 adds one minor but useful feature. Many of you have asked that the “X” button in the upper-right corner of the dialog hide the program rather than close it. I have to...

Calendar 2.2.2

Calendar (not to be confused with Calendar Gadget) was one of the first .Net applications I wrote years ago. It started out as a C++ application named FreeCal and then later as a .Net 1.0...

Live Mesh at Day of .Net

I spent the morning at the Ann Arbor Day of .Net (AADoDN). What are Day of .Net events you ask? The Day of .NET’s are a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by developers...

Friday Links #21

[FeedIcon20: Generate Feed Icons For Your Website or Blog MakeUseOf.com](http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/feedicon20-add-feed-subscription-icons-website/) – Produces a feed icon by simply entering the URL of the feed. Simple and efficient. Sara Ford’s WebLog : Did you know… How to...

Desk Drive 1.6.6 Released

Desk Drive 1.6.6 adds language support for Dutch (Netherlands). The Dutch (Belgium) release a few days ago proved to be quite popular. The Netherlands may be small but they sure are mighty when it comes...

Windows needs your permission

I’m a fan of Windows Vista and I like the extra security measures. At home, I run my laptop full on with UAC and logins. It rarely causes me an issue. But even a die...
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