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missed the PDC

Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

XMas coming early this year .... PDC

I am just reading all about PDC  and the amount of stuff coming out is really overwhelming... this is like chrismas coming early this year. :)

Whidbey 

• ASP.NET "Whidbey" with screenshots.
• more ASP.NET
• and more ASP.NET
• even more ASP.NET

Longhorn

• MSDN Longhorn Developer center
• Longhorn SDK
• Avalon
• WinFS
• Indigo
• MSDN mini magazine

there are more stuff here:

• Overview of "Whidbey" roadmap from BenjaminM
• BillG's keynote
• Indigo links
• VS.NET Tips & Tricks
• One Lap around Longhorn from Tims
• Building Avalon Apps with Controls and Dialogs
• Indigo Overview
• Avalon Overview
• PDC moblog

In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-tech Marketing Disasters

I purchased this book after reading about it on Jole Spolsky's website. He wrote the foreword for the book wich you can read here - a pearl on its own - and there is an interview with him at the end of the book. All in all I think this is a very well written and fun book. It presents you some of the big marketing mistakes of the software industry in the past two decades. Made by companies like IBM, Wordstar, DBase and Borland. It is an easy and entertaining read and each story teaches you by example what to do and not do to with your own software business. If you want to do start your own business, interested in marketing and software or just need a book for your lunch break then this is the book to read.

Future of flash

Smartphone related dev. articles

Porting a registry viewer application from Pocket PC to Smartphone 2002
Introduction to WTL for Smartphone 2002
Is there a template to start WTL-based application for Smartphone 2002
STLogFile - easy way to trace debug info

All about ninjas....

This page is an all in all guide to ninjas. You can find here everything that you wanted to know about them.

Q: Why is everyone so obsessed about ninjas?
A: Ninjas are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, ninjas are very careful and precise.

Q: I heard that ninjas are always cruel or mean.  What's their problem?
A: Whoever told you that is a total liar.  Just like other mammals, ninjas can be mean OR totally awesome. 

Q: What do ninjas do when they're not cutting off heads or flipping out?
A: Most of their free time is spent flying, but sometime they stab.  (Ask Mark if you don't believe me.)

RealUltimatePower.net 

running Ximian Evolution on XP

.NET articles to read if you get bored ...

Performance analysis of Microsoft HR application
Creating Document-Centric Applications in Windows Forms (MSDN)
Building a Lightweight Message-Passing System
The C# Design Process: A Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg, MSDN (1, 2, 3)

AnotherEon001

The skin I am using is called AnotherEon and it is made by Christian Nordbakk. Thank you very much Christian for this nice skin.

download it from here

Snipet compiler rocks....

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

I just received and begin to play with this game last night and I really like it so far. The first night resulted a long lasting gaming session (I went to bed around 2 AM). This game is very refreshing experience after playing endless number of FPS and racing games. The story line just gives me this epic movie like feeling. My only regret is that I cannot control the fights the same way as I could do in an FPS (or I might missing something). The game itself somewhat remembers me Warcart III - which is another great game to play. In both games you are controlling parties but in KOTOR you cannot build, upgrade or manage buildings. But the atmosphere very much similar to me.

As for the first play I am going with the light side but I think the dark side must be fun too. Man I will waste countless hours with this.... Cool. This is a must have game for your xbox collection, the other must be HALO of course.

Bioware

KOTOR site

Path.GetTempFile()

I just found this cool method couple of days ago and I think it is just really cool, here is a short description what it does

public static string GetTempFileName();

Returns a unique temporary file name and creates a zero-byte file by that name on disk.