I am going to make a point of blogging when I can get online from interesting places from now on and noting them here. Today I am in Indianapolis and I am blogging from the
Moon Dog. I am happy to report that one of the best restaurant/bars in Indy has hit the online trend! If you are ever in Indy - check it out.
New demo song from Josh available at
http://www.joshjoplin.com/disc.html
Online Chat: Upgrading COM Applications to .NET with Visual C++ 2005Many applications consume and expose COM interfaces as their object models today. And .NET has tools such as tlbimp, tlbexp and COM Interop support for RCWs and CCWs to help integrate managed code with COM objects. In addition, there are also a number of options in C++ unavailable to other languages such as C# or VB. Some mechanisms are simpler to code, while others provide deeper control over aspects such as data and interface marshaling, ......
Find out more from eWeek here: http://www.eweek.com/articl... Microsoft Takes New Development Track By Darryl K. Taft August 16, 2004 ......
Cooks together...we had a bit of team bonding time this Sunday. We started out with a friendly game of Texas Hold'em. I think I won - I am on a hot streak lately. I will take the world twenty dollars at a time! Then it turned into an initiation of my new kitchen by Shreyas (voted new team chef). Gerardo put in a bit of an assist (wearing his Imagine Cup shirt - of course). Shreyas makes a mean fish taco! We all watched a bit of the Olympics together. My kitchen is clean and the Olympics are still ......
This weekend included a nice housewarming party at E and Doug's new digs. But, I must say that the gifts they received (all very nice) do not shine as brightly as what I received in the mail today from a great friend as a housewarming gift. It is Candle Couture! Who knew such a wonderful useless item existed. I have seen Elvis in wax, food in wax, just about anything...but, nothing like the headless couture! Thanks Marg ......
Chatted with Steve on IM tonight. He is in great spirits for being far from home and somewhere that cools down to 95 at night! And what does he ask about - books on the Visual Studio 2005 beta! Got to love the spirit of this community. I told him I am expecting to see his bug reports and a couple articles from his Army barracks. You can keep up with Steve at his blog - www.armysteve.com ......
My friend Stephen Ibaraki is always posting new interviews. The latest (and I admit I am behind in reading them) include a brand new interview with Kenton Gardinier one of Rand Morimoto's wonderful crew over at Convergent Computing, a newer interview with Stephen Walther of ASP.NET Unleashed fame, and one with Mr. Excel Bill Jelen. Plus there are many more interviews to check out with notables in the technology community. ......
An interesting article on how researchers are measuring online users' reactions to an item or product for sale.