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Yet another cool use case for Live Mesh

I use Live Writer to create weblog posts.  It’s a great way to compose thoughts that might not be ready for prime time, and then post them once I’ve completed and reviewed them. This post from On10, shows how you can use LiveMesh to sync your drafts...

Posted 23 November 2008 12:38 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: products

It's a good thing they 'do no evil', or this would bother me

"Google Abandons Standards, forks Open ID" Excerpt: Basically, Google has rewritten OpenID. Not only is it not exactly the same as the current OpenID protocol, it’s so different that existing OpenID relying parties won’t be able to use it. Only...

Posted 02 November 2008 05:57 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: products, News

I'm a PC

The I'm a PC ads are great. I like the tone, the content, and the message: PCs create are world without walls, where communication is world wide, different industries, hobbies, goals, and types of hardware are supported. It's great, and shows...

Posted 22 September 2008 05:30 PM by wwagner | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, products

My 24 hours with Chrome

Or the luster is already gone. I used Chrome for some of my web browsing for about one day. It works alright, but it's clearly an early release. Technically, Chrome can and will compete with Firefox 3 and IE 8. (I'm running a beta of IE 8 as my...

Posted 04 September 2008 07:53 PM by wwagner | 6 comment(s)

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Web site rule number one: Define your audience

A recent experience highlights how little anyone in any business thinks about software, especially web sites. I was running out of checks in the home checking account. The handy-dandy reminder check came up. Normally, I would take that to the local branch...

Posted 21 August 2008 07:27 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Me, products

There is a reason I still get a big blue rash

Earlier this week, Open XML won ISO approval. By any objective measure, it won handily. 86% of the participants voted for the standard. Does that mean that 16% of the voting countries are run by IBM officials? One could make the case that it does. Jan...

Posted 04 April 2008 06:09 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: .NET General, Links, products

VS 2008 VPC images expiring

We interrupt this blog for an important public service announcement. Microsoft has been telling folks that the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images are going to expire on November 1, 2007. The VS 2008 install doesn't expire, but the base OS does....

Posted 28 October 2007 11:22 AM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: LINQ, C#, products

Sara Ford saves me time again

Sara Ford has been posting tips about the VS 2005 editor. Today's tip( http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/28/did-you-know-how-not-to-accidentally-copy-a-blank-line.aspx ) shows a nifty little setting that disables Copy and Cut when you're...

Posted 28 September 2007 08:37 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: C#, Links, products

Question and recommendation on installation packages

The best tool (IMHO) for delivering database installations I received this question via email recently: "I have developed an application using VB.net and SQL. I have to create the setup file so that I can install this application on another system...

Posted 09 December 2004 11:41 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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