Channel 9 - Discussions by FrankPalinkas http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by FrankPalinkas http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions en Fri, 24 May 2013 01:25:00 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 01:25:00 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Need Reviewers Please Hi All,

I have three new Fast Track tutorials in draft and ready for review/comment/feedback:

"Calling Accessible Context-Sensitive Help with Unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript"

"Building Accessible Navigation with C.S.S."

"Creating Auto-line Numbered Code Blocks"

May I kindly ask anyone who may be interested to give any or all of these a going-over and provide me with some constructive feedback before publication? If so, please email me at: fmpalinaks AT gmail dot com, and I'll send you a zipped project package (+/- 1Mb each) including the content, markup, .css, and scripts (if applicable).

All work is done within the source code editors of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition with SP1. As usual, I publish these free to the community with any donations being made to local children cancer crusade funds.

I would truly appreciate your learned advice if you have some time to spare.

Kind regards,

Frank

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/256371-Need-Reviewers-Please/256371#256371 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:43:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/256371-Need-Reviewers-Please/256371#256371 FrankPalinkas 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - MS employees and Vista
JKelley wrote:

FrankPalinkas wrote: 
PaoloM wrote: As usual, the answer is "it depends"

My boxes are all Vista, as all my team. Many testers run both Vista and XP on their day to day machines (plus having access to all the versions on the test machines) for quick verifications.

I don't know what web developers use for ASP.NET, but pretty much all my devs work in Vista now.




FWIW, all of the MSFT Team Leaders and members at the sessions I attended at the MVP Global Summit this past week were running Vista (sheesh, what an incredible show!). Didn't ask if they were on a dual-boot scenario.

BTW, I'm interviewing this morning for a position on Paul Cornell's VS SDK team at Building 41 starting at 09:30. If any of you on campus are available, please come in and wish me luck (i'm sure i'll need all i can get )? I'd like to say "hi" before leaving for the WritersUA Annual conference in Long Beach. CA, to give a presentation on my last Fast Track tutorial. Thanks!


Good luck!  I'm in building 41 myself, I've worked a little bit with some of the SDK team, they're a good group of people.


Hi J,

Apologies if you came looking for me....I was in and out of different staff offices all day, one on one interviews - started at 09:30, finished at 17:30 - was offered lunch, but declined to keep things moving. I hope to be hearing back from the lead recruiter early this coming week, but am keeping a healthy attitude of no expectations. Seriously, i really enjoyed the whole process....it was one, if not the best positive experience I ever had, regardless of what the Team's decision will be.

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PaoloM wrote:
As usual, the answer is "it depends"

My boxes are all Vista, as all my team. Many testers run both Vista and XP on their day to day machines (plus having access to all the versions on the test machines) for quick verifications.

I don't know what web developers use for ASP.NET, but pretty much all my devs work in Vista now.




FWIW, all of the MSFT Team Leaders and members at the sessions I attended at the MVP Global Summit this past week were running Vista (sheesh, what an incredible show!). Didn't ask if they were on a dual-boot scenario.

BTW, I'm interviewing this morning for a position on Paul Cornell's VS SDK team at Building 41 starting at 09:30. If any of you on campus are available, please come in and wish me luck (i'm sure i'll need all i can get Smiley)? I'd like to say "hi" before leaving for the WritersUA Annual conference in Long Beach. CA, to give a presentation on my last Fast Track tutorial. Thanks!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253183-MS-employees-and-Vista/4d7ba66b76804161b2629dec0064b146#4d7ba66b76804161b2629dec0064b146 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:18:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253183-MS-employees-and-Vista/4d7ba66b76804161b2629dec0064b146#4d7ba66b76804161b2629dec0064b146 FrankPalinkas 22 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Looking for feedback on site design Very nice, and I agree with the other observations for the css.

Just a few questions please?

Why are you using xhtml 1.0 strict with a MIME/media type set to text/html? IMHO, xhtml should only be used if you're plugging in other xml namespaces, i.e MathML, ChemML, SVG, etc. into the web page. Also, you must serve all xhtml DTD's with a MIME/media type of application/xhtml+xml. I didn't see any xml plugins in the page, therefore my question.

My reasoning is that xhtml is only to be used for its modular purposes, as mentioned above, and not as a whip to write so-called "strict" markup. All markup should be written properly, semantically correct and fully accessible by assistive devices regardless of the DTD it falls under.

Using HTML 4.01 Strict will serve the same purpose. The only change you'll have to make is "opening" up the link and meta element tags in the head section.

HTH Big Smile

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Inky wrote:
hey all!  name is Greg Palinkas. Am an animator studying in Florida at Full Sail.

my dad (Frank Palinkas) showed me this site an it looks pretty cool.

so yeah, just thought i'd say howzit to all the fellas.

schweeeet.




Hi Gregs and welcome!
Glad to see you here. Also, if you've got some cool stuff you've done, you can post it to the Sandbox so the forum members can download and play with it. If you think someting might be of interest on the animation side (Maya running on Windows, etc.), let the Coffeehouse know.

See ya!

Dad

Note: For those who might find it of interest, computer-based animation sort of runs in our family. Devo Palinkas, Gregs cousin, was a C programmer at Blizzard Software where she and her husband, David Brevik were instrumental in the Diablo series of games. They broke away from Blizzard and formed Flagship Studios http://www.flagshipstudios.com where David is the Chief Visionary Officer. You might have heard of their new game to be released shortly "Hellgate London". Also, if your interested in joining this kind of company, check out their job site reachable from their home page.

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1. Drink Famous Grouse.
2. Pray that next time a troll posts to 9 they don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Big Smile

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252216-How-Developers-Blow-Off-Steam/70e25bc710ed4e0a8e9a9dec0057611c#70e25bc710ed4e0a8e9a9dec0057611c Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:00:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252216-How-Developers-Blow-Off-Steam/70e25bc710ed4e0a8e9a9dec0057611c#70e25bc710ed4e0a8e9a9dec0057611c FrankPalinkas 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Simple flash game: What's your highscore? 95.....sheesh.....all doz red spots.....I must be gettin' old? Big Smile

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252236-Simple-flash-game-Whats-your-highscore/79f619f888cf407e83549dec0057a425#79f619f888cf407e83549dec0057a425 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:26:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252236-Simple-flash-game-Whats-your-highscore/79f619f888cf407e83549dec0057a425#79f619f888cf407e83549dec0057a425 FrankPalinkas 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - University: I'm a bachelor now! Ciao mio bello Commendatore,

Congratulazioni! Non se lo rammaricherete mai! Di andata!

Don Ciccio Big Smile

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251896-University-Im-a-bachelor-now/25b002f1ed374c02891c9dec0051f61e#25b002f1ed374c02891c9dec0051f61e Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:00:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251896-University-Im-a-bachelor-now/25b002f1ed374c02891c9dec0051f61e#25b002f1ed374c02891c9dec0051f61e FrankPalinkas 29 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shock!!! Bzzzzt.... Maybe another source...is there an electical appliance (table lamp, floor lamp, radio, stereo, etc.) that is brushing up against or touching the couch? If so, could be a loose or worn wire in the appliance transmitting the current? Also, if you have underfloor electric heating, the same loose or broken cable idea may be causing it?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251806-Shock-Bzzzzt/a17b05f8ed0241ed8da49dec0050bcce#a17b05f8ed0241ed8da49dec0050bcce Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:04:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251806-Shock-Bzzzzt/a17b05f8ed0241ed8da49dec0050bcce#a17b05f8ed0241ed8da49dec0050bcce FrankPalinkas 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS The 9 Guy Around The World - Comet McNaught (viewed from Cape Town, RSA) Here's a photo of the Comet McNaught taken from Cape Town, South Africa.

Frank

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/251791-Comet-McNaught-viewed-from-Cape-Town-RSA/251791#251791 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:42:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/251791-Comet-McNaught-viewed-from-Cape-Town-RSA/251791#251791 FrankPalinkas 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS The 9 Guy Around The World - Comet McNaught (viewed from Cape Town, RSA) Here's 5 photos of the Comet McNaught taken from Cape Town, South Africa.

Frank

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/251790-Comet-McNaught-viewed-from-Cape-Town-RSA/251790#251790 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:39:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/251790-Comet-McNaught-viewed-from-Cape-Town-RSA/251790#251790 FrankPalinkas 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Feel-good films Another oldie....."The Thing", the original in black & white, with James Arness in the title role. IMHO, this was and still is, one of the best scfi-fi movies ever created.

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W3bbo wrote:

FrankPalinkas wrote: 
W3bbo wrote: If you're in the profession, you shouldn't need to be told how to do this sort of stuff.


Hi W3bbo,

Although this forum consists of many learned and brilliant developers/programmers, there are also many just starting out on their path to greatness. I don't assume who will use this link to see if the info is useful or not. I put it there to aid in the sharing of what I humbly think may contribute to everyone's knowledge and growth, regardless of who they may be.

I know that, and I appreciate you posting it for the benefit of others. I was just having a jabb at the Digg crowd: they claim to be a bunch of W3C-worshipping web-designers and PHP developers, yet articles dealing with the absolute basics of the specifications and their applications get dugg sky-high (an oxymoron if there ever was one).


Thanks for the clarification. I mirror your concern and professional integrity regarding this. Writing valid, semantically correct, and accessible markup + css is still not a primary concern for many in the business.

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W3bbo wrote:
If you're in the profession, you shouldn't need to be told how to do this sort of stuff.


Hi W3bbo,

Although this forum consists of many learned and brilliant developers/programmers, there are also many just starting out on their path to greatness. I don't assume who will use this link to see if the info is useful or not. I put it there to aid in the sharing of what I humbly think may contribute to everyone's knowledge and growth, regardless of who they may be.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/251599-53-CSS-Techniques-You-Couldnt-Live-Without/383f39d7eaca485fb3279dea0150cd9d#383f39d7eaca485fb3279dea0150cd9d Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:28:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/251599-53-CSS-Techniques-You-Couldnt-Live-Without/383f39d7eaca485fb3279dea0150cd9d#383f39d7eaca485fb3279dea0150cd9d FrankPalinkas 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without For 9'er Web Designers...saw this on the codeproject newsletter today.  This collection is different from what I've seen in the past...may come in handy one day.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/19/53-css-techniques-you-couldnt-live-without/

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/251599-53-CSS-Techniques-You-Couldnt-Live-Without/251599#251599 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:42:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/251599-53-CSS-Techniques-You-Couldnt-Live-Without/251599#251599 FrankPalinkas 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - X/HTML Validator/Editor Like other Niners, I use the VS 2005 Team Edition source code editors to write XHTML 1.1, XML, XSLT and CSS. I have no need to use Expression Web Designer, but I'm sure the free Express version has a really good text editor for you to do this work. If I didn't have VS, that's what I would choose. Some recommendations:

Test all markup as you're writing it, real-time in browsers (try not to use the Design View of any editor tool). Firefox and Opera will live very happily alongside IE on the same machine.

Test all (X)HTML and CSS against the W3C Validators. You can upload individual web pages and stylesheets directly to their servers. Other good validators are also available. Try a Search for more of these.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251593-XHTML-ValidatorEditor/96e91b812a444bb7b0b29dec004d8a5d#96e91b812a444bb7b0b29dec004d8a5d Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:15:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251593-XHTML-ValidatorEditor/96e91b812a444bb7b0b29dec004d8a5d#96e91b812a444bb7b0b29dec004d8a5d FrankPalinkas 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - UK and France Niners: I'm going to be in your hoods Posted by littleguru // Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:30 AM

Charles, how is it with Vienna, ever planned to visit Microsoft Austria? It would be cool to meet you once in person.


Wien? Wie geht es Ihnen, kleiner Zauberer!

Ja, you see I was right in comparing you guys to musical giants working and producing magic on their keyboards. Now for sure I know Mozart is alive and well in Wien. Big Smile

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251527-How-many-Microsofties-are-still-around-here/238ac71a7ea841228cd09dec004c5b9b#238ac71a7ea841228cd09dec004c5b9b Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:27:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251527-How-many-Microsofties-are-still-around-here/238ac71a7ea841228cd09dec004c5b9b#238ac71a7ea841228cd09dec004c5b9b FrankPalinkas 33 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - UK and France Niners: I'm going to be in your hoods Hi C,

Obviously South Africa is not on your itinerary, however I'll be going to the Global Summit in Seattle/Redmond over March 15-18....any chance you'll be around so I can stop in and say hi?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251523-UK-and-France-Niners-Im-going-to-be-in-your-hoods/a2137b5f0e2542aab8279dec004c521c#a2137b5f0e2542aab8279dec004c521c Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:12:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251523-UK-and-France-Niners-Im-going-to-be-in-your-hoods/a2137b5f0e2542aab8279dec004c521c#a2137b5f0e2542aab8279dec004c521c FrankPalinkas 40 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS The Sandbox - Notes - Plain Text Editor Thanks Angus!

The "AngusEditor" is proudly on my desktop, and will be used for my xhtml1.1 and css. I'll post if any problems occur. Please let us know when you release an update, etc.?

Frank Big Smile

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Maybe I can put your mind somewhat at ease. I'm new to this award as I mentioned last week, and what I say here is of my own opinion. The MVP award is an invitation. MSFT asks whether you would like to either accept or pass on it. If you've accepted and on your anniversary, whether you get another invitation or not is totally at MS's discretion. I think we don't have to assume that they're keeping an eye on things. Hope that helps?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251399-MVP--Most-Visible-Poster/7ae707418f444b0183819dec004a8e9c#7ae707418f444b0183819dec004a8e9c Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:01:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251399-MVP--Most-Visible-Poster/7ae707418f444b0183819dec004a8e9c#7ae707418f444b0183819dec004a8e9c FrankPalinkas 15 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Some good news Thanks to all for the congrats, it's appreciated.

I can only speak of what I do. I seriously don't have a clue as to how Microsoft makes these decisions, and the opinions below are strictly mine.

Online participation:
I am an active contributing member to about five lists concentrating on Windows Help systems and documentation. I really enjoy the MSDN Developer Documentation and Help Forum, the Yahoo! Help Authoring Tools and Techniques (HATT) list and the Yahoo! MSHelp2 list. Advice: Pick several active lists in your specialty and start helping those who ask for guidance and problem solving. Do it every day. If you don't know an answer, there's no problem. Someone else may, and sort it out. Try to be as accurate as possible with your answers. If you can lay it out flat - do so. If you can't, but have a really good clue to what's needed, revert the poster to resources which will help them out.

Publishing online:
Create a blog or website, or ask for a page on a friend's site, so that you can start publishing articles which you think are instructive and important in your specialty. It doesn't matter if someone else has already published on a similar or the same topic. You are unique, and your ideas really do matter to many people.

Speaking engagements:
Using your online publications as a base of knowledge, offer yourself as a speaker/presenter to different associations/clubs/groups/schools/universities catering to your specialty. You'll be surprised at how many will say cool, come over and speak to us. Don't worry about getting paid to do it. Just do it.

I think it all comes down to a constant and genuine willingness to help others with Microsoft technologies.  Hope that offers some ideas?

Frank


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May your children have a very happy, healthy and rich father. Big Smile

Frank

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Would just like to share some good fortune with you...

Microsoft has awarded me the M.V.P. for Windows Help.

Frank Big Smile

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250862-nice-weather/ab09aebc8838407cbf509dec00432da3#ab09aebc8838407cbf509dec00432da3 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:39:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250862-nice-weather/ab09aebc8838407cbf509dec00432da3#ab09aebc8838407cbf509dec00432da3 FrankPalinkas 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/FrankPalinkas/Discussions/RSS