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My son Koah loves to sit on my lap while I am working on my computer. Usually he is fine to sit and watch the screens change, windows popping up and down, browsers loading, as I did my development work. But over the past couple of weeks he
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What do you need to get through the Great Depression 2.0? Why, a giant computing table , of course! Sadly, the Surface SDK isn't available to folks without a real Surface (which, I say, is a bummer) so I can only tell you that developing for it is awesome.
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First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-fifth in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." At the end of my crazy babies talk at
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As I've mentioned before, I've got a talk at PDC this year , it's "TL49" and it's called " Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies. " It's on Monday at 5:15pm in Room 411. The baby aspect is really secondary, mostly because BabySmash
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One of the things that I noticed immediately when I made the SmallestDotNet was that Firefox was reporting the version of the .NET Framework installed. There's a Firefox extension that is installed with .NET 3.5SP1. I was stoked about this because I'd
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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My one-hundred-and-twenty-second podcast is up . In this episode I share BabySmash! with Carl Franklin and we chat about WPF, its strengths and weaknesses, and my trials in launching my tiny (free) Micro-ISV. Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Torrent:
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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I wanted a custom cursor for BabySmash ! My son was having trouble associating the mouse cursor on the screen and the movement of the mouse. Clearly a shiny new Kids Cursor was in order. I went into Expression Blend and drew this hand cursor. I drew it
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I added a new feature to BabySmash during lunch, so that if your (baby's) mouse wheel is over a shape and they scroll the wheel, the system will play a sound and zoom that object in or out. The mouse wheel events come REALLY fast, as do most mouse events.
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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Last night Cameron and I posted about BabySmash , and how much fun we were having with it. This morning I was trying to show some folks the app, but I was offline. Knowing how the technology works, I was able to find the local storage, and still run the
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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