I've finally managed to spend a decent amount of time using Windows 7 Beta 1 as my routine operating system for my usual tasks. In this blog post I talk about my experience and what I think of the new OS.

In this post, I take a fairly objective look at Vista to date, in light of recent efforts to clean up Vista's image by Microsoft including Seinfeld and Mojave.

Microsoft is set to unleash the website containing the results of Project Mojave tomorrow. In advance of that, I thought I would comment on the project and what it means for the software giant

I read Joe Wilcox's latest article entitled "What's wrong with Leopard's spots?". In this blog post are my thoughts on the obvious shillage contained in his post

I've gotten this error message using Visual Studio 2008 on virtually every single installation. Thankfully, there's a quick fix

Roughly drafted has done a review of the presentation I gave during the WWDC

Mary Jo Foley posts a defensive psuedo-retraction to her previously inflammatory article about the WWDC Steve Jobs keynote and Leopard

Mary Jo Foley claims that Leopard is just a photocopy of Vista. I run down a list of her arguments to see if they hold weight

Microsoft's WPF/E, which is now called Silverlight, is a cross-platform, cross-browser platform for RIA (Rich Interactive Application). Question is: will anyone use it??

In a previous article I explored a comparison between VS 2005 and the Xcode/Interface Builder IDEs. In this article, I explore implementing the MVC pattern in WPF applications

This blog entry contains a summary of some of my experiences in using state machine workflows to control the flow and logic of a complex WPF application

Having been a C# developer for more than 6 years, and starting to explore the world of Cocoa programming with Objective-C 2.0, I've discovered a fundamental difference in Developer Experience philosophy.

I recently ran across a huge gaping hole in WPF bindings, one that leaves me asking ...WTF??

I don't intend to declare a "winner" or say which one I like best, I merely want to compare and contrast for my own edification and to illustrate the differences (and similarities) to Cocoa newbs like me

There is an industry expression that refers to running test software in real, live situations as 'dogfooding' or as 'eating your own dogfood'. I've been forcing myself to use Vista since it hit RTM and here are my thoughts and results.

I read a Microsoft Watch article that points out that Vista will be receiving a hefty pile of patches upon installation of the January 2007 retail versions of Vista.

I've got a couple tips to speed the process of setting your Vista box up as a .NET 3.0 development machine, because God knows you sure as hell won't be gaming with this Operating System for the next couple of months at least

A little while ago I acquired a Sprint PPC 6700 phone that has EV-DO broadband access as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Not only that, but the phone can act as a USB or Bluetooth modem. Here's how I utterly abused that power.

This article contains my first draft of a networking design for my reference game, Ulysses Agenda. It includes a list of all peer meshes and standard services as well as a list of messages transmitted on those meshes

When I was in college I started a game project called Ulysses Agenda and unfortunately never finished it. Now that I've got my grubby hands on all the latest technology, I plan to finish it and use the code as a sample and guidance.

So I've been playing with Windows Vista RC1 and thought I would post up my opinions. I will try and keep this as objective and unbiased as possible, as there's a lot of windows-bashing going around lately and I'd rather not contribute to bias.

Go get it! Get it now! Your life could depend on it! You know it does!!

Lately I've been trying to do some things with the Workflow foundation that you don't typically see in the samples or in most documentation. As a result, I needed to load some XOML-only workflows that also fired events and called external code.

One of my pet peeves is applications that either have no support for running in other cultures, or flat-out don't work properly in other cultures. This post contains a walkthrough of preparing a WPF application for localization.

My friend and co-worker has posted up an incredible demo of WPF that displays a bunch of photos of your choosing in polaroid frames on a virtual desktop, animates, scales, and fades them! Includes code and screencast. Check it out!