Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (the end)
17 May 2012
jQuery vs AJAX toolkit. It turns out Microsoft ditched AJAX libraries of its own (ASP.NET AJAX, MS Ajax Library, AJAX control toolkit) in favor of jQuery. AJAX control toolkit is still alive, but it is managed by a 3rd party company called SuperExpert (www.superexpert.com). Strangely enough, the talk was not about AJAX calls per se, [...]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (next part)
17 May 2012
Rocky Lhotka gave a nice and quite deep speech on how we, regular software developers, can prepare ourselves to the brave new world of Metro and Windows 8. The trouble is, you see, all these community previews, betas, and release candidates, however cool and shiny they might be, are usually not so good for building [...]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (continued)
17 May 2012
Metro UX Design Guidelines. This class gave somewhat less technical perspective on all things Metro. According to the new religion, full screen is actually good for you. Show content, not decoration. Celebrate typography. Be responsive and fluid (whatever that means; well, if you want to be ‘immersive’, fluid kinda follows, it would be too cruel [...]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2
17 May 2012
Keynote was given today by two people: a senior manager from Microsoft and a CEO of a partner company. It’s funny that they refer to the whole event as “show”, as opposed to “conference”, “classes”, etc. I don’t know about other, more technical gatherings, but their act was definitely a well orchestrated show: they very [...]
Visual Studio Live New York Day 1 (Non-Technical)
16 May 2012
I was a little late for the keynote @8AM, but I don’t think I missed much. I expected some kind of strategic speech, but it was yet another demo with code samples, etc., some of which failed to work. Pete Brown, Rich Dudley and Vishwas Lele gave excellent presentations on WPF 4.5 and various aspects [...]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1 (continued)
16 May 2012
WinRT Internals. WinRT runtime is a completely new set of classes available out of the box and usable in all 3 supported Metro environments, namely CLR (with C#/VB), WinJS (with JavaScript/HTML), and native (with C++). The runtime itself is a mixture of COM-like technology and CLR-compatible metadata, but its implementation is in C++. It is [...]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1
16 May 2012
Attended a bunch of session about WPF and WinRT/Metro. A couple of points: Windows. The schizophrenic operating system with two start screens is here to stay. They openly admit it, talking about “desktop side” and “metro side” or even “green side” and “blue side” following the [in]famous architecture slide. I don’t mind if several visually [...]
Torvalds and Git
10 May 2012
Whatever you might think of Torvalds personally, this (Wikipedia) is downright impressive. The development of Git began on 3 April 2005.[12] The project was announced on 6 April, and became self-hosting as of 7 April. The first merge of multiple branches was done on 18 April. Torvalds achieved his performance goals; on 29 April, the [...]
LiveJournal CrossPoster test
24 Apr 2012
The old Live+Press plugin is not holding water anymore. I patched it several times, but as WordPress evolves, it keeps falling behind. Time to move to something new.
Hasta la Vista, Baby!
09 Apr 2012
On April 10, 2012 MS Vista enters extended support (slashdot.org). This means no new service packs or IE versions. And I am still using XP – both at home and at work. My employer, that has thousands of PCs, decided to bypass Vista and switch directly to Windows 7, which is going to happen “some [...]
