Dave Williamson

• User Experience and Desktop Virtualization Interview

  Apr 19, 2012 at 1:26 PM

  Should there be a video with this post?

• The Big Dimmer Switch

  Feb 15, 2012 at 1:26 PM

  Yes and yes, Tim.  All businesses change from state A to state B by way of a transition that weighs the downside risk against the upside gains.  Your dimmer analogy is right on.

  The stress these days on the development supply side is the loss of market supply at scale for on-premise.  To parallel the electricity analogy, the cost of backup generators today is way more expensive than if everyone had a generator for primary power.  The same holds true for the physical on-premise IT parts.

  Developers have to follow the dimmer and move their finely tuned code base from state A to state B just as carefully (change, retune, change, retune, change, retune,...).

• D³: Start Something Healthy with Pablo Grossi (Energy Fitbox)

  Jan 09, 2012 at 2:11 PM

  Any fellow devs in the Charlotte, NC area should come out for broomball at the Extreme Ice Center (xicenter.com).  Good cardio and spine adjustments galore.

• TWC9: January 6, 2012 - C9 Video Queue, Silverlight 5, Metro and WP7

  Jan 07, 2012 at 4:16 PM

  Video Queue =

• The Roslyn Project - Meet the Design Team

  Nov 16, 2011 at 6:18 PM

  This will be great for learning another language while writing in the current language we are most familiar with.

• Kinect to Kill: A Channel 9 Halloween Special

  Oct 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM

  <seinfeld>The newbie!  I knew it!</seinfeld>

• Defrag: TPM & Bitlocker, Search Service, How to Pick Wifi Hardware

  Sep 27, 2011 at 7:51 AM

  19 hours ago,Magic​Andre1981 wrote

  I would run ProcMon to see why there is such delay after connecting the device. In ProcMon you can look at the Duration column to see what takes so long.

  Thanks MagicAndre1981, Gov, and Larry.  I watched the events in ProcMon and narrowed down the time frames.  It appears that the networking stack to the device takes 3 to 7 seconds (varies with each device connect) to become usable.  I setup a CMD window with "ping 169.254.2.1 -t" and could see where the device was unreachable (disconnected) then general failure (device was just connected) then ping results (device networking established) then after 3 or 4 successful pings the device's networking was generally available to other applications.

• Checking In: Marcin Dobosz - MVC, NuGet and the Open Web

  Sep 09, 2011 at 4:00 PM

  @Marcin - MVC isn't a cost only for Microsoft.  It eventually gets into Visual Studio which generates the revenue.  Yet another group of programmers gets to eat tonight. 

• C++ and Beyond 2011: Herb Sutter - Why C++?

  Sep 07, 2011 at 3:49 PM

  Herb should probably add to his points about how the new C++ will help developers from having to build abstraction layers.  Back in the day we were building our own private libraries (mostly on a smaller scale and specific to a vertical market) then Microsoft came along and committed some dedicated folks to creating the .NET libraries on a large general purpose scale.  Our not having to re-invent libraries with each job/career/vertical change is the elure of .NET (managed or not).

  It would be interesting to see a cost analysis debate between the .NET and C++ camps.

• Defrag: IE History, Removing Rip from WMP, Secure PC Thumbdrive

  Sep 07, 2011 at 8:21 AM

  Is there a way to tweak Windows Mobile Device Center (or Windows interaction with it) to tighten up the time span between when the device is recognized by Windows (audible sound to user) and when connectivity to the device is actually viable?  We have seen 10 or 15 second delays between those 2 points in time and end users are confused by it.

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