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Mono on iPhone [Mono on iPhone]

KevinB — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:17:39 GMT

Hey,

Thought some of you might be interested in this post over on Miguel de Icaza's blog about Mono running on non-Jailbroken iPhones. I think this sounds like a really great way to get started developing on the phone, and hopefully without needing to invest the money in a Mac or the time in Obj-C.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jun-29.html

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 [Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1]

KevinB — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:09:43 GMT

Its out on MSDN now for anyone that is interested. Servers seem to be going well, no connection problems or slow transfers like with the Windows 7 Beta and RC builds.

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Windows 7 Desktop Managed Resources [Windows 7 Desktop Managed Resources]

KevinB — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:04:32 GMT

Hey,

Thought some of you may be interested in this. It is managed wrappers aounrd all the native desktop and superbar API's that are new to Windows 7. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet as I don't have a Win7 install on this machine, but looking through the source it looks pretty complete.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows7Taskbar

and in particular :

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows7Taskbar/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2246

It is a superset of the code that was used in the Windows 7 Desktop demo given at the PDC by Rob Jarrett. If you want to watch that talk, which was very good, it is referenced from the above pages also and I have included the link below.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vslangfutures/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Document%20Map%20Margin

Kevin

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First post from Redmond [First post from Redmond]

KevinB — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:47:58 GMT

After 20 odd hours of travelling and sitting around in airports, I am finally in Redmond. Can't wait to start work.

Can anybody from the area or that has visited recommend things to do as I have a day or two to kill before I actually start.

Kevin

P.S. US Immigration are (understandably) incredibly unfriendly and airport security even on domestic flights is a lot stricter than I am used to in Ireland and the UK.

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Webslices for C9 [Webslices for C9]

KevinB — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:27:59 GMT

I just though of this and posted it in the IE video thread, but I will repost it here so more people will see it and give their opinion on it.

Would it be a good feature to implement Web Slices for individual C9 threads, so that using IE8 you could monitor the progress of a fast moving thread without actually being on the C9 site?

Kevin

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Just got Mesh [Just got Mesh]

KevinB — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:53:12 GMT

Just finished installing Mesh and have to say, friggin fantastic.

Such a well put together piece of tech, FolderShare was great but this synchronization backed up by storage on the cloud is great. Can't wait until they start expanding out that 5Gig so you can begin to really throw everything you own up there, basically, have your Documents folder just sync from PC to PC.

Live Desktop is also a pretty cool feature.

Kevin

P.S. This new editor is great, in fact, whole new C9 design is pretty great. My one criticism is that it is veryhard to differentiate between read and unread posts at a glance, would be better if the icons jumped out at you more.

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Another one? What the hell..... [Another one? What the hell.....]

KevinB — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:22:55 GMT

Like dahat, I didn't post this earlier as I kept expecting something to go wrong and Microsoft to phone up and say, actually, there was a mix up and we wanted the othhhher Kevin. Sorry about that.

But, signed the contract this morning, so, from the middle of June I will be intern'ing at MS in Redmond on the Office team.

3 niners in 2 weeks, pretty impressive...

Kevin

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c# 3.0 Book Recommendations? [c# 3.0 Book Recommendations?]

KevinB — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:52:02 GMT

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good book to cover the new bits of the framework (less important) and the new features of the language (more important)?

I already have a book by Jess Liberty on C# so I don't need a complete reference over again, just the newer features.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-C-4e-J-Liberty/dp/0596006993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202773152&sr=1-1

Thanks,
Kevin

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New office.microsoft.com launched [New office.microsoft.com launched]

KevinB — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:26:55 GMT

Hi guys,

Just thought I would let you all know that the new site over at http://office.microsoft.com launched today around the world.

Kevin

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Windows Live OneCare [Windows Live OneCare]

KevinB — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:18:06 GMT

Hi,

Has anyone tried this yet?

How did you find it compared to other anti-virus/malware/nasties solutions?

I for one quite like it and have gotten rid of AVG and replaced it with OneCare.

Anybody else got any thoughts?

Kevin

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Re: An end to the monopoly [Re: An end to the monopoly]

KevinB — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:20:14 GMT

shooby wrote:

I'm not going to send you my annoted biography

Can't remember asking for it tbh...

shooby wrote:

, just know that I've been intimately involved with kernel development since the late 70's.

I see, you have been intimately involved with the Linux kernel (which is the one I asked you aboiut, not some toy kernel you may have done at Univeristy) since the late 70's? I see. You should send a mail to Linus Trovalds, he is claiming he started the Linux kernel project in 1990, the lying so and so....

shooby wrote:

...and I dont worry that someone I never met is going to slip a kernel flaw in past reviews that does some harm....

I'm sorry, my english comprehension skills aren't what they used to be as I simply don't understand this line...

shooby wrote:

.so Kevin, besides write "hello dot net" what the f**k did you ever do, besides act an (I need to watch my language)?I

Not a whole lot but then I don't go around internet forums flaming people needlessly and claiming that I started the Linux Kernel Project

Kevin

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Aero over RDP? [Aero over RDP?]

KevinB — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:39:08 GMT

Seems to be in the new builds of Vista according to this blog posting from Steve Sinchak.

I think that is pretty cool and definitely hadn't expected anything like this. Was this in older builds, I had never heard anything about it before.

Kevin

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Cool SuSE Demo [Cool SuSE Demo]

KevinB — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:10:13 GMT

Hello People,

Seen this in Migeul de Icaza's blo and thought I would post it here to get some opinions on it.

My view is that it has pretty much all the same features that Vista will have but it has got some cool additions, I liked being able to right click on a program icon and for uninstall to just appear.

I wasn't a big fan of the new program menu thing though, just seemed more cumbersome and a little slower than the traditional start menu.

Here is the link to the video, it is in flash and is pretty long.

http://www.novell.com/img/flash/load_stream.html?temp=1&id=brainshare2006monday_press_conference

Please don't turn this into a flame war, only genuine replies please.

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on10.net comments [on10.net comments]

KevinB — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:21:02 GMT

Lo People,

Looked at on10.net today for my daily video and, as I did on Monday looked at the source code for it.

Today there was a comment in it that I am pretty sure wasn't there on Monday, although somebody may correct me if I am wrong.

the comment was:

<!--
    
    Want the wp?
    
    Get the wp in the wp folder in the dl(s) folder.  Request the pre_on10_ + screen.width + .jpg file
    
-->

Do you think this is a proper dev comment or a message to people.
 I dont know which to be honest. It seems like a fairly terrible comment if it is genuine,
 there is no indication which dev wrote it, when it was written etc etc.

Also, anyone care to hazard a guess at what 'wp' is an abbreviation for?

there is a /downloads/ directory on the server but you can't access it.

Probably nothing but it is very late at night and I am bored of wait to see what this site is going to be.

Any ideas/comments?

Kevin

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9 vs 28 [9 vs 28]

KevinB — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:30:24 GMT

Dear 29'ers and especially Charles,

    I am a big fan of MS and will indeed be spending a year long internship with the company next year, however, I feel that I must speak out against the banning of Beer28.

Now, I am not naieve, and I am all to aware of the fact that he has been abusive to C9 members in the past. Now, unless those members have made a direct complaint against Beer28 I think that C9 has made a mistake.

Yes I feel that Beer28 has made some pretty outrageous claims but none more so than Shooby or other linux 'advocates' of the forums who do no more than hurt the 'linux' cause.

I use the term linux very loosely as I understand that as a kernel, linux is very good, howver, as it is packaged by redhat/suse/ubuntu/etc it is lot less compelling.

That said, I am willing to accept Charles etc opinion on this as I am sure they read a lot more of the threads than I do, I just expect that if Beet28 has been banned than Shooby et al suffer the same fate.

Kevin

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Quick IE7 Observation [Quick IE7 Observation]

KevinB — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:18:35 GMT

Start by saying a big well done to the IE team, IE7 Beta 2 is pretty excellent IMO, however, I have only been using it for a few hours.

One massive thing missing though, and it probably isnt even that hard to implement compared to some of the new features they have introduced.

The find feature is still the same old one from IE3, the firefox find feature is just much more useful where the find bar comes along the bottom and as you type all instances of your search string are highlighted throughout the document.

I hate going back to the old way of finding things in documents where you enter the whole term, then find.

Is this find system going to stay or will the team be implementing find the way firefox does it.

EDIT: Also, what do other people on chan9 think of the find feature in IE7. IS this something you really don't care about/use often or is it something you would like the team to change for the next beta.

Kevin

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DataGridView maybe? [DataGridView maybe?]

KevinB — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:30:02 GMT

Hello niners,

I am in need of a little help. My mobile phone company, vodafone, offer and online billing option from their website. You can also download the bill in a text document, some of which I have pasted below.

As a little learning exercise, I thought I could make an application which parses this and makes some reports.

What do you recommend for displaying these reports, at the minute, for debugging really, I have just stuck a richTextBox on the form and I am firing the data in their, but I would like a nicer way of displaying the data. I was thinking of using a DataGridView so that it would be easy to sort it etc.

Anybody got any other ideas or suggestions on how to display the data.

Kevin

December 01 2005,11:21:36,Data,="telnumber",1 text msg,="£0.000",In bundled,,
December 01 2005,11:22:38,Calls,="telnumber - another network",00:00:03,="£0.000",In bundled,,
December 01 2005,11:23:13,Calls,="telnumber - another network",00:00:26,="£0.000",In bundled,,
December 01 2005,11:25:35,Data,="telnumber",1 text msg,="£0.000",In bundled,,
December 01 2005,12:50:57,Calls,="telnumber - another network",00:01:22,="£0.000",In bundled,,
December 01 2005,13:00:37,Calls,="telnumber - another network",00:00:03,="£0.000",In bundled,,
December 01 2005,-,Data,="telnumber",3 text msgs,="£0.000",In bundled,,

Each line of the bill gets its own BillItem object with some access methods like getDate() etc

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Project Looking Glass [Project Looking Glass]

KevinB — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:33:36 GMT

Hello people,

Just read a short piece about this in this month's PC Pro and thought others might be interested in it. I know that for some of you Looking Glass will seem like quite old news but I had never seen any demos of it and thought I would share some cool links with you.

Main Page: http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/

Video Page: http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/demo.xml

Direct Link: http://webcast-east.sun.com/archives/GSN-1312/GSN-1312_forjds.mov

LiveCD: https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/

Haven't tried out the LiveCD yet so I don't know how it compares to WPF (Avalon). Downloading it now and looking forward to giving it a go, I think it looks at least as impressive as Vista.

Tell me what you all think.

Kevin

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