February 2009 - Posts
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| John Hrvatin, Program Manager on the IE Team, joins us for a quick lap around IE8's almost golden (meaning RC quality/state) Developer Tools (aka Dev Tools). What's changed since we last talked to John (IE8 Beta 2 timeframe)? How are IE8 Dev Tools helping web developers in the real world? What's the coolest IE8 Dev Tools feature? What have web developers asked you to improve/change/add since we last spoke (Beta 2 timeframe) | /Dennis
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| Are you the “Computer Guy” ??? You know, the Saturday Night Live character Nick Burns played by Jimmy Fallon? Well, one of the reasons computer users bring out the “Nick Burns” in many of us is the disconnect in communications and lingo between computer experts and computer users. Thankfully the developers of Windows 7 have included a blood pressure reducing little tool called the Problem Steps Recorder (PSR). You won’t find a whole lot of information on this nifty little tool yet, but nearly everyone that sees it and uses it agrees, this baby rocks.
See the full blog post @ http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2009/02/09/windows-7-screencast-problem-steps-recorder-psr.aspx | /Dennis
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At a recent Mobile Fest, aka MobFest, the cat has been let out of the bag. Here in Microsoft Innovation Center Singapore, a group of intern developers developed a high standard Mobile application on the Windows Mobile platform. Location Based Services is an on-coming trend, which has the capabilities of providing accurate positioning service which can fit into many different scenarios. MobFest, an inaugural event that brings together different views of the mobile platform, not just Windows mobile, but Iphone and Andriod were also represented. A true gesture of Microsoft being open and happy to work with the Open Source world yet again. We will interview the students behind the project in the next few days and share with you in greater details, the personal approach. <grin> There are a lot more in the bags of Microsoft and this is just the surface. Since these boys have let the cats out of the bag, i will just open the floodgates for these. Innovations don’t happen in Singapore? Think again. Singapore is the perfect ground to develope, test and launch such innovations. /Dennis
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| | Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows. Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team developers Robert Jarrett and Ben Betz as we take a deep dive into the Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists. You can think of a Jump List as your own mini Start Menu for your application, giving you some control over its appearance and functionality. We will explore the COM interface and APIs used to customize Jump Lists and we will talk about the importance of application ID for Jump Lists. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists is one video of a series of Channel 9 videos on Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include: 1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar 2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes 3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists 4. Windows 7 Taskbar Overview For more technical information on the Windows 7 Taskbar, read the Windows 7 Taskbar Part 1 – The Basics. And for more technical content on Windows 7, along with a few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers. If you missed the PDC sessions on the Windows 7 Taskbar, you can always watch their videos: Welcome to Windows 7 Taskbar and Integrate with Windows 7 Taskbar – but I know you already saw them few times. | Article from: http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Taskbar/
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| | Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows. Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team developers Robert Jarrett and Ben Betz as we talk about the three parts of the Taskbar. Rob will describe the architecture driving some of the new Taskbar features such as custom switchers and Jump Lists and we will address the important topic of Application ID. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes is one video of a series of Channel 9 videos on Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include: 1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar 2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes 3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists 4. Windows 7 Taskbar Overview For more technical information on the Windows 7 Taskbar, read the Windows 7 Taskbar Part 1 – The Basics. And for more technical content on Windows 7, along with a few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers. If you missed the PDC sessions on the Windows 7 Taskbar, you can always watch their videos: Welcome to Windows 7 Taskbar and Integrate with Windows 7 Taskbar – but I know you already saw them few times. | Article from: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/yochay/Windows-7-Taskbar-Behind-the-Scenes/
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| | Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows. Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team designer Stephan Hoefnagels as we present the evolution of the Windows 7 Taskbar through the different design iteration cycles, and of course, we will see the famous “Bat Signal.” Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar is one of a series of Channel 9 videos about the new Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include: 1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar 2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes 3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists 4. Windows 7 Taskbar Overview For more technical information on the Windows 7 Taskbar, read the Windows 7 Taskbar Part 1 – The Basics. And for more technical content on Windows 7, along with a few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers. If you missed the PDC sessions on the Windows 7 Taskbar, you can always watch their videos: Welcome to Windows 7 Taskbar and Integrate with Windows 7 Taskbar – but I know you already saw them few times. | Article from: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/yochay/Designing-the-Windows-7-Taskbar/
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| Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows. Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team members Chaitanya Sareen, Trish Miner, Stephan Hoefnagels as we present the new Windows 7 Taskbar functionality and motivations. This video shows what is new in the Windows 7 desktop and taskbar, and the common user tasks and scenarios we are simplifying. The Windows 7 Taskbar Overview is one of a series of Channel 9 videos about the new Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include: 1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar 2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes 3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists 4. Windows 7 Taskbar Overview For more technical information on the Windows 7 Taskbar, read the Windows 7 Taskbar Part 1 – The Basics post. For more technical content on Windows 7, along with a few cool code samples, go to the The Windows 7 Blog for Developers.
If you missed the PDC sessions on the Windows 7 Taskbar, you can always watch their videos: Welcome to Windows 7 Taskbar and Integrate with Windows 7 Taskbar – but I know you already saw them few times. | Article from: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/yochay/Windows-7-New-Taskbar-An-Overview/
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Federal IT projects fail at an alarming rate. The total cost to the U.S. economy? According to Roger Sessions, at least $200 billion per year. This editorial by Sessions is reprinted from the Perspectives of the International Association of Software Architects (January 2009). It is an in-depth analysis of why so many Federal IT systems are in trouble and what steps the Obama administration needs to take to control this epidemic.
And if you are in the private sector, don't think you're off the hook. The same problems are haunting your systems. In today's grim economy, reducing costly IT failure is everybody's imperative.
External source: http://www.objectwatch.com/whitepapers/IASASessions-Reprint.pdf
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With 2009 looming large, ugly and just around the corner, it’s time for the obligatory prognostications. Boy is this difficult… Hmmm. What will next year bring? Any wild guesses? Read the complete article.
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How should boardrooms respond to the macro crisis? Is it just a case of recession-as-usual: budget-paring, personnel-slashing, and portfolio-trimming? Read the complete article in my blog.
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And so this leads to the paradox that because the disease is only in the poorer countries, it doesn't get much investment. For example, there's more money put into baldness drugs than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it's a terrible thing. (Laughter) And rich men are afflicted. And so that's why that priority has been set. But, malaria -- even the million deaths a year caused by malaria greatly understate its impact. Over 200 million people at any one time are suffering from it. It means that you can't get the economies in these areas going because it just holds things back so much. Now, malaria is of course transmitted by mosquitoes. I brought some here, just so you could experience this. We'll let those roam around the auditorium a little bit. (Laughter) There's no reason to be scared, only poor people should have the experience. (Laughter) (Applause)
But we have to be careful because malaria -- the parasite evolves and the mosquito evolves. So every tool that we've ever had in the past has eventually become ineffective. And so you end up with two choices. If you go into a country with the right tools and the right way, you do it vigorously, you can actually get a local eradication. And that's where we saw the malaria map shrinking. Or, if you go in kind of half-heartedly, for a period of time you'll reduce the disease burden, but eventually those tools will become ineffective, and the death rate will soar back up again. And the world has gone through this where it paid attention and then didn't pay attention. External source: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html
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“In the past, user experience was not a high priority for most development projects, but that's changed. Today, end users have a lot of experience with the Web and with software. They want design that's easy to learn and use and that fits their workflow. This column will show you how to deliver such designs. “User experience design is comprised of a number of subfields. Most UX designers have skills in all the core areas, but some are more specialized. The key areas are interaction design (IxD), information architecture (IA), user research, visual design, and usability testing. “Usability testing ideally involves the actual user audience to validate early and often (iteratively) in order to ensure that the software being created has the fewest possible usability bugs. Practically speaking, there is a lot of synergy with Agile. Both are essentially iterative. Both require regular collaboration with the people (ideally, the actual users) for whom the software is being built. “In future installments of this column, we'll be exploring more concrete examples for incorporating the knowledge, techniques, and tools of User-centered design (UCD) into your software development practice. Read the complete article in Usability in Practice: The Human Face Of Software
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| When you think of the phrase “Social Computing,” you probably think of teenagers sharing pictures with their BFFs or folks “micro-blogging” on Twitter, but if you think that’s all social computing is all about, you’re wrong. There can be tangible business benefits to embracing the principles of social computing. Providing community forums where your customers can talk about your products, provide service information to each other and provide direct, candid feedback about how you can make your products better is exactly what Denny Boynton talks to Bob Pearson, VP of Communities and Conversations at Dell Corporation, about in this episode. | ARCast.TV - Bob Pearson on The Business Benefits of Social Networking /Dennis
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In Jan 2009, the Sharepoint Pros met up to talk about Extending Sharepoint 2007 with Sharepoint Designer. For details and synopsis, visit http://www.mstechevents.sg/ViewEvent.aspx?eventId=173 [Double the Video to video in Full Screen] Session 1: Extending Sharepoint Server 2007 to the next lap with Sharepoint Designer 2007 (43mins 20secs)
Direct link to Video: Click Here /Dennis
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