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.
Yesterday during the PDC 2008 opening keynote, Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure Services. In this post, I'll take a look at the information available and see if I can distill it down into an easily digestable form
Microsoft recently released Silverlight 2.0 to the public. After the Olympic games, Silverlight ended up on a LOT of people's computers, but Silverlight 2 has more importance to application developers in the future. I discuss that in this post
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.
After the D6 conference, Microsoft has shown a little bit of their poker hand for Windows 7 - apparently they're banking heavily on the appeal and popularity of multi-touch interfaces like Surface.
I was poking around with CLINQ, trying to figure out where I might be able to use ContinuousCollections when I found a great one: WF tracking services. With CLINQ and WF Tracking, I can write queries against WF activity logs
At the iPhone Developer Summit, someone from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence asked me what I thought was wrong with Windows Mobile. I told her: WM is a shrunken, crippled version of Windows.
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.
