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Microsoft's Newton? Project Origami

February 28, 2006 Comment on this post [5] Posted in Gaming | Bugs
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Origami_1I loved my Apple Newton. I bought it on opening day. Don Box ordered one (from me) immediately.

When I read his blog, I am sometimes reminded of my first encounter with Scott Hanselman. On one particular week, Apple decided to ship a revolutionary new platform, the Newton. I had to have one, so I drove down to Incredible Universe (a consumer electronics mini-chain whose assets were eventually bought out by Fry's Electronics).
 
An extremely young but enthusiastic and bright guy sold me my Newton. Even at this point in my career, I had already acquired the recruiting bug, so I set off to hire him. My partner and I interviewed him at an all-night coffee shop after work. He blew us both away - this guy was destined to jump into the fray.
 
I honestly don't remember why didn't start working together - maybe he wasn't ready to have a job (he likely wanted to learn to drive first). [Don Box]

I'm totally stoked to see it coming back, except reincarnated as a tiny TabletPC. Video here. Speculation here. Prototype photos here. Confusion here.

Not quite a phone, not quite a giant remote control, not quite a TabetPC, not quit a PSP, but all those things as more. This may be the "hackable" PSP that I've always wanted.

More importantly, where do I order it? And what young person will sell Don Box his?

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Reflectoring with the Keyboard

February 23, 2006 Comment on this post [7] Posted in Musings | Tools
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ReflectorstackIt's nice to "discover" a feature that you knew was already there but had forgotten. Reflector's "Analyzer" feature is a way to walk a Depends On/Used By tree.

I can fairly say that I never use the Visual Studio Object Browser but I live in Reflector. I've tried integrating it with Visual Studio, but this is one application that I like using Full Screen. I don't want it buried in a "toolbox window".

One of the things I love the most about reflector is that it is completely (and intuitively) usable via the keyboard. You just need to know:

  • Arrow Keys - Up, Down, Left, Right move you around the tree.
  • Tab - Switches you between panes.
  • F3 - Search. Lots of folks don't know that you can search on method name via the "Member Search" feature.
  • Space - The magic button that pops you into code view.
  • Ctrl-R - Starts the analyzer in a tree view in the right-hand page. At that point, the arrows, tabs, and space let you continue hunting.

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Z Rolls

February 23, 2006 Comment on this post [8] Posted in Javascript | Parenting | Z
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Z turned 12 weeks old on Tuesday, and I'm on the first trip-away-from-home since he was born. So what happens? He rolls over. Sure, it was probably the weight of his head that took him completely over, but he's been trying to roll over during "Tummy Time" for at least the last two weeks. Fortunately my Dad was there and my wife used the new digital camera to video it in 640x480. The video is 8 megs, but I squished it with Windows Media 9 Encoder down to 800k. Sigh. I'll be home soon!


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Windows Defender Errors 0x8024402c 0x80240022 and 1609

February 23, 2006 Comment on this post [7] Posted in Musings
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Defender1Just installed Giant Microsoft Antispyware Defender Beta 2. Installed nicely, looks pretty, a lot like the Defender that is integrated with the December drop of Vista. However, Defender was unable to update my signatures, instead throwing a COM-ish 0x8024402c. Others are getting Error 1609 and still others 0x80240022.

Word on the street a fix is to remove the Signature Files and reinstall them thusly:

  1. Remove the current signature file. To do this, click Start, click Run, type Msiexec /x {A5CC2A09-E9D3-49EC-923D-03874BBD4C2C}, and then click OK. 
  2. Open Windows Defender. To do this, click Start, click Programs, and then click Windows Defender.
  3. Defender2Check for new definitions. To do this, click the Help options arrow next to the Windows Defender Help icon, click About Windows Defender, and then click Check for Updates. 

While this worked for some, it didn't work for me. I had to visit http://update.microsoft.com to get mine updated. Hopefully this will be fixed soon. I'll update this post as more news arrives.

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Leaning on the Language and Leaning on the Libraries

February 23, 2006 Comment on this post [2] Posted in ASP.NET | Web Services | XmlSerializer | NCover | CodeRush | HttpHandler | Tools
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Coderush2What fun I'm having. I'm collaborating on a project for work. We're still using Visual Studio 2003 and .NET 1.1, but we're still wildly productive.

One interesting thing I've learned is that I lean on the libraries, while Paul, my counter-part leans on the language. He knows what language constructs to use and I know what BCL methods to use. Together we make an effective pair, but this realization helped us both better understand our weak areas. One can write lots of C in C#, if you know what I mean.

Do you lean on the language or the libraries?

We've been doing some fun stuff with XML lately, you might have noticed. We've used:

Also. we're using:

class KindOfPartialSgmlButMoreOfAnOfxXmlWriter : XmlWriter

{

    public KindOfPartialSgmlButMoreOfAnOfxXmlWriter(TextWriter w)

    {

        _htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(w);

    }

 

    public override void Close()

    {

        _htmlWriter.Close();

    }

 

    private Stack _tags = new Stack();

    private HtmlTextWriter _htmlWriter = null;

    private bool _suppressNextEndElement = false;

    private bool _suppressNextText = false;

    private string _previousElement = null;

 

    public override void WriteStartElement(string prefix, string localName, string ns)

    {

        _htmlWriter.WriteFullBeginTag(localName);

        _previousElement = localName;

        _tags.Push(localName);

    }

 

    public override void WriteString(string text)

    {

        if (_suppressNextText == false)

        {

            _htmlWriter.Write(text);

            _suppressNextEndElement = true;

        }

    }

 

    public override void WriteEndElement()

    {

        string endtag = _tags.Pop() as string;

        if (_suppressNextEndElement && endtag == _previousElement)

        {

            _suppressNextEndElement = false;

        }

        else

        {

            _htmlWriter.WriteEndTag(endtag);

        }

    }

 

    public override void Flush()

    {

        _htmlWriter.Flush();

    }

 

    public override void WriteWhitespace(string ws)

    {

        _htmlWriter.Write(ws);

    }

 

    public override void WriteRaw(string data)

    {

        _htmlWriter.Write(data);

    }

 

    public override void WriteChars(char[] buffer, int index, int count)

    {

        _htmlWriter.Write(buffer, index, count);

    }

 

    public override void WriteQualifiedName(string localName, string ns)

    {

        _htmlWriter.WriteBeginTag(localName);

    }

 

    public override void WriteEndAttribute()

    {

        _suppressNextText = false;

    }

 

    public override void WriteStartAttribute(string prefix, string localName, string ns)

    {

        _suppressNextText = true;

    }

 

    public override void WriteRaw(char[] buffer, int index, int count)

    {

        _htmlWriter.Write(buffer,index,count);

    }

 

    public override void WriteProcessingInstruction(string name, string text)

    {

        _htmlWriter.Write(text);

    }

  

    #region Stubs

 

    ...here are overriden versions of everything else from XmlWriter, stubbed and not used. Removed for tidiness

 

    #endregion

}

 

 

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