Quick – name the first five “famous“ women developers (authors/conference speakers) you can think of (sql server included…)
Let’s see – I go: Deborah Kurata, Kathleen Dollard (my VB roots are showing), Kate Gregory, Michele Leroux Bustamante and Kimberly Tripp.
Now quick name the next 5 that come to mind…
uh oh, this picture looks like it spells trouble… 🙂 Click on the picture to read about the latest “The .NET Show” on Connected Systems. For those of you who have not had the privelege…this is Doug Purdy (left) and Don Box (right). And no it’s not trouble, I’m kidding. Doug and Don have a very unique way (it’s a good one … if you are not grokking my tongue in cheek, here) of delivering information on this topic that will drive the future (and for many of us, the present) of how we write software while delivering their message …well, on any topic, actually. If you need a map to figure out that very convoluded sentence…just leave a comment. Next time I’ll try to write it with Indigo.
I keep forgetting that this application is pretty much usable now but I have to fine tune some things (and deal with the bullshit of the icons…uggh). I’d be happy to have some people play with it and give me some feedback. Basically it lets you create posts off line and then upload them, but more importantly, it lets you use ink. It leverages the built in TIP to ink and recognize text and then has a way to create and embed (and upload) drawings. I don’t have a “category“ ability built in and you cannot edit posts that are online.
If you want to save posts to upload later (or keep forever) they are persisted in xml.
The settings allow for BloggerAPI and MetaWeblog API. There is an issue with post titles with BloggerAPI so I just use MetaWeblog. It has all of the downsides of these two apis such as your logins being sent in clear text (uggh). The app settings that are used to post to your blog and ftp images are encrypted and persisted locally.
There are a few things that bug me about it still, but maybe I’m just being way too picky which is why I have sat on it. I’m embarrassed for anyone to see it unless it’s perfect, but at this point it seems a huge waste to have it just laying around on my tablet which I don’t use all that much on a daily basis.
Contact me offline. I will not put this into too many hands until I am more confident about it. I have to rebuild the MSI etc and just be warned I’m really over-committed right now so I might not get to fixes quickly.
I have no plans to share the code because I hacked it together and would be completely ashamed for anyone to see it. It was all just experimental to work out some ideas.
Note: This post has been misinterpreted twice in other blogs. I hope it is pretty clear that I am saying WinFS is MUCH more than google for your desktop.
So everyone is blogging about Google Desktop and many are joking that they won’t need WinFS now anyway. Where are the Longhorn people to remind us that, although that was the easiest part of WinFS to grasp, that there is a lot more to it. I know I saw a post about this in the past…just can’t find it. But I’m surprised that I haven’t seen a new one since everyone started blogging about this yesterday.
I see this tree all day long while I’m working. This tree is like the ocean. In the summer when it is full green and the wind is blowing, it is absolutely mesmerizing to watch it. I have never loved a tree before, but I love this tree.
Uggh . Just got my annual letter from MVP telling me my next year’s rates.
We have the absolute budget HMO and I get some break since I’m getting it through my corporation. But for 2 adults (no kids), $25 co-pay, [I think] $500 deductible, NO prescription help here is what we have paid here in Vermont.
2001: $425/mo
2002: $527/mo (yes a $100 month — $1200 year increase!)
2003: $568/mo
2004: $597/mo
2005: $617/mo
Sad part is we hardly ever get sick and don’t go to the dr. much. Last year Rich had a wierd dizzy spell that freaked out our doctor (thought it was a precursor to a heart attack) and ended up in the hospital for 3 days getting every test known to mankind and got a clean bill of health. A $7000 physical! We joked that at least we got something out of our insurance money.
My poor hubby has also had a lot of dental problems and that is 100% cash out of pocket so add about another $4000 on top of our health insurance costs. I’m more sad for Rich though than for our wallet.
Each year we spend many hours reviewing our options and determine (when thinking about maximum out of pocket what-if situations) that this is still our best bet. This is a big problem in Vermont (this is the health care that Howard Dean wanted to share with the whole country) because we have run most of the competition out of the state.
I’m thinking about the problems Shelley Powers had when talking about her finances on her blog – somehow the tax department read them and used that info against her. I think I’m okay with this here, though.