September 2009 - Posts
Still look forward to owning a carboat someday. My old blog post is difficult to find via search. (I didn’t use “carboat” as a searchable term.)
Here was the content of my “Gibbs Quadski – My commuting dream vehicle” post:
MS Mossyblog had a post on Jetski with Wheels. (The YouTube Video)
With a little digging, I found the Quadski is a prototype from Gibbs, the company who made the Aquada.
I'd love to have either one of these someday. I'd love to commute like this.
2 questions on the Quadski:
- how much will it cost? (they don't know yet...)
- will it be relatively efficient to run?
The WPF team was just introduced to another application built on WPF from elsewhere inside of Microsoft. (I wasn’t aware of this until yesterday…apps like this often just pop up when they are released. :-) ) It was recently released as a CTP.
And here is a quick screen shot of the “Getting Started” experience:
Bing announced “Visual Search Galleries” the other day. Promising… We’re considering getting a dog and the Dog breed search will help.
Also saw Patrick Hansen’s write up about PhotoBucket’s Visual Search.
Promising…
Too Beautiful to Live is a podcast that my wife and I enjoy…it was just taken off the air (it was a radio station and a podcast)…now it is just a podcast. Anyway, it is a Seattle show, but enjoyable…it grows on you…enough that many people from around the nation (and beyond) are hooked on it too. Anyway,
http://tbtl.net …. not everybody will like it….but it grew on me.
Top secret internal Microsoft mail thread…that may answer a future question you have…read bottom-up. (ok, perhaps not Top Secret).
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From: Answer Person
Yes, manipulation and touch events are available in PT. However you cannot implement your own touch device.
From: Question Person
Subject: XBAP and multi touch in Windows7
Will all multi touch features in WPF 4 be available when running on Windows 7 as XBAPs as well?
Starting today (Thursday night?), Sunday Night Football on NBC will be web broadcast in HD via Silverlight. I’ve seen a demo of the app, I’m excited to try it out live…. http://snfextra.nbcsports.com/
Got a comment from Thomas Claudius Huber the other day in the middle of my post about “MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight”:
Hi Rob,
what about the Markup-Parsers? There are some differences between Silverlight and WPF XAML, e.g. <Button>Hello</Button> works in WPF, in Silverlight it doesn't. Would you upgrade those things too?
I answered:
Thomas-
Yes, we know we need to improve things about the Silverligh parser. We want to make them have identical behavior! We're working on that.
I'd love to hear what improvements in the Silverlight XAML parser are most critical to the Silverlight community.
Thanks, Rob
Thoughts? What are your top 10 pain points for the Silverlight XAML development experience? Feel free to give me a list via a comment…include design time, compile time and runtime issues.
[Update 2010-03-16] - See an update about the Silverlight 4 XAML Parser overhaul: http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2010/03/15/david-poll-silverlight-4-xaml-parser-overhaul.aspx