Entries for William Stacey

Happy Thanksgiving 9ers!

William Stacey — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:07:19 GMT

concurrent collections and TakeWhile

William Stacey — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:59:33 GMT

Shouldn't thinngs like the concurrent collections (px), have TakeWhile method(s) that take a predicate?

That way, you can remove multiple items inside the single lock context atomically, instead of entering and exiting lock context after each take.

Example.

var readers = bc.TakeWhile(p=>p.IsReader);

Linq Extentions adds things like TakeWhile, but those operate from the "outside" of the collection. This needs to work from the inside. Would there be a general way to implement this pattern for collections in the px? Could there be a way to make the standard extentions, special case concurrent collections in the ways it makes sense - some interface maybe?

what up pdc videos?

William Stacey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:29:33 GMT

1) WMV downloads don't play with Media Player. Get a codec error. Have to play in zune.

2) If you watch the streams, video is bad and voice track does not match.

What gives? I recommend the Burton video and the Panel with Erik so far.

Gore to the center of the earth [Gore to the center of the earth]

William Stacey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:46 GMT

Anyone else see how Al Gore thinks the earths core is at least a *several million degrees? (its only about 5000C) And talks about it smugly with absolute confidence of his perfect knowledge. I about fell off my chair. Besides being creator of the Internet and carbon credits, he is now officially a buffoon. A lot of people should be demanding their money back.

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R.I.P Office Accounting :( [R.I.P Office Accounting :(]

William Stacey — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:29:08 GMT

var dp = from p in MS.Products

where p.Dead = true

select p;

ObjectDumpter.Write(dp);

Microsoft Money

Microsoft Encarta

Windows OneCare

Soapbox

Windows Live Events

Microsoft Recite

Office Accounting

To bad, I thought it had some nice features and some promise. QB will never add .Net api with linq support now :(

The guy actually said "we have determined that other Microsoft offerings such as free templates in the Office system used with Excel (can be used instead)..." He actually said that? You got to be kidding me... I think you quit to early on this one.

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PubSubHub, Push, ePoll, and Scoble [PubSubHub, Push, ePoll, and Scoble]

William Stacey — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:25:08 GMT

Gillmor Gang with Scoble on the line are talking about PubSubHubbub here. http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/

Funny thing, people think this Pub/Sub and Push stuff is new and forget it is about 20 years old (i.e. IMAP, SNNP, etc). I forwarded them over to Erik's Rx and his video. Seems Techcruch wants to give Winer credit for PubSub here:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/rsscloud-vs-pubsubhubbub-why-the-fat-pings-win/
"Dave Winer deserves the credit for coming up with the idea long before anyone else..."

Give me a break!. I guess he invented TCP also. Also of note, Robert has a new baby and was in the video. Congrats Robert! Another RSSer in the making.

They also talked about Linux's ePoll. Which I guess is something new that allows server to manage 100K+ TCP sockets. I was not aware of this technology. What is MS's answer to this? Doesn't windows still foobar after about 3K, or is that changed? Hint, Hint, Rx Notify abstraction of TCP Accept is needed here:

var q = from s in TcpClient.Connections(3300)

where s.ClientIPAddress != 4.x.x.x

select s;

foreach(TcpClient s in q)

{

// process client.

}

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low fruit mobile phone feature [low fruit mobile phone feature]

William Stacey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:34:21 GMT

When someone is calling you, and you can't take the call (say on another phone), there should be a button to tell them "I am on the phone, voice message is turned off, I will call you back shortly...". That way you can save them time in leaving a wasted message, they know your on the phone, and you don't have to call your voice mail to delete the message. Time savings all around. You could just tie it to the Stop button during an incoming ring.

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Wacom? [Wacom?]

William Stacey — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:03:05 GMT

Anyone know what is going on with Wacom.

Everywhere I look online, their primary products (Bamboo, etc) are out of stock - even on their own eStore. Either there is a run on graphics tablets for some reason, or something is up.

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Tuple type [Tuple type]

William Stacey — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:01:47 GMT

I know the System.Tuple type in fx4.0 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942829.aspx) will be useful and glad it was added. But if you had to make an argument for why you need it over creating a property class (e.g. DTO), what would the arguments be? Reducing number of classes is one (program size and complexity). Having to stop and define a new type is another (programer speed). However, having a concrete type can also be an advantage. Please weight the pros and cons. tia.

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Expression 3 on DreakSpark [Expression 3 on DreakSpark]

William Stacey — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:16:36 GMT

Did not see anyone mention it yet, but Expression 3 is up on DreamSpark. :-)

https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

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Camera w/ webcam mode [Camera w/ webcam mode]

William Stacey — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:28:48 GMT

I really wanted this Canon Powershot http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=18183

It has HDMI out, but it does not appear to have a live webcam mode where it streams the live video over the HDMI (only recorded HDMI out from storage). Anyone know a camera in same range that does have a webcam-mode with an HDMI out?

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Zune HD site [Zune HD site]

William Stacey — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:26:56 GMT

http://www.zune.net/en-us/mp3players/zunehd/default.htm?campaignID=preorder081309

MS. Are you kidding me? Your using flash instead of silverlight for this? I am a sl fan. But if you don't start using your own product, I start to wonder.

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Case closed picture [Case closed picture]

William Stacey — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:51:44 GMT

My 12 year old drew this the other day. I need to get this child into Silverlight design.

http://deepzoompix.com/Album.aspx?alias=WJS&album=3

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My first Silverlight3 site [My first Silverlight3 site]

William Stacey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:37:11 GMT

Created my first SL 3 site here: http://hiexpressbirmingham.com/

100% silverlight. Coded timed image faders, news ticker on bottom and the logo spins (using perspective 2d) when clicked.
Still a work in progress, but am really liking this sl thing. I am worried about the whole silverlight install thing, but am thinking. If you in for an ounce, your in for a pound. If you add any silverlight controls, you may as well make your whole site silverlight and be consistent. Not sure.

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Silverlight 3 live [Silverlight 3 live]

William Stacey — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:24:54 GMT

As promised on July 10th, Silverlight 3 rtm.

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ (prompts to install sl 3)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd&displaylang=en (vs 2008 dev tools)

Mine farted because of SL3 beta dev tools was on my machine and I will need to do some clean up and maybe wait for rtm dev tools, but hopefully others will install fine.

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Twit the new BBS [Twit the new BBS]

William Stacey — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:37:39 GMT

Funny how everying old is new again. So many people think twitter is soo new. They must not be old enouph to remember CompuServe or other bulletin board systems (i.e. WildCat BB). Fairwell CompuServe -RIP. Proably never heard of 300bps modems either.

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flash motion panel in silverlight [flash motion panel in silverlight]

William Stacey — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:13:12 GMT

In lower left orange panel here http://drphil.com/show_main/

looks like a panel with soft motion. How would you do this in SL, or is it a media player playing a video?

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Silverlight ResizeObject. [Silverlight ResizeObject.]

William Stacey — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:46:37 GMT

HtmlPage.Window.Invoke( "ResizeObject", new object[] { height } );

Exception:
Failed to Invoke: ResizeObject.

Code supposed to resize the current SL object fails. SL3.

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news tickers [news tickers]

William Stacey — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:42:03 GMT

Do those tickers and info panels and context-pictures on the bottom of cable news channels have formal names? tia

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mySql and Entity connector [mySql and Entity connector]

William Stacey — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:33:49 GMT

Wifes work is in need of a REST solution for their web site. I was thinking about using ADO.Net Data Services. The mySql .Net connector does not work with vs Express (it seems) and does not show up in VS2010 either. I don't currently have vs2008 to test it. Anyone get Entity/Astoria working with mySql? The db shows up in Server manager in vs2008? tia

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Ideas for Bing [Ideas for Bing]

William Stacey — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:56:40 GMT

The bing box should also be able to:

1) Enter an address "123 smith, troy, mi" and have it pull up a live map. Does not seem to do this yet.

2) Reverse phone number search seems to work for some numbers. cool.

3) Commands:

"@user1 Hi you." Send a tweet.

"#248-555-1212 call me" Send a text message.

"2+2=" Math mode.

"123 smith, troy, mi - 555 demille, lapeer, mi" Get a directions map.

Many others possible. Could also make it Extensible with user or ISV plug-ins. Add my own c# code :) Now that adds some interesting possibilites.

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Biden-Flu [Biden-Flu]

William Stacey — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:21:45 GMT

I think Pelosi now has the “Biden Flu”. Say what ever the heck makes you feel good and ignore all truth. Because you are so "all that", nobody will now the difference. She is like that one person in your office that takes all credit, and blames everyone else, and somehow gets away with it because nobody calls them on it.

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error after sql server 2008 sp1 [error after sql server 2008 sp1]

William Stacey — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:39:24 GMT

After installing SQL server 2008sp1, I can't start my Project that has a User Instance DB in the project. connection string not changed.
Am at a loss what to look for. I suspect some kind of security change or some switch that was reset during the sp update. If I attach to the DB in ..\bin\debug and remove"UserInstance=true" from the connection string - it works. So it seems related to mounting a local user instance.

Client exception:
{"Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed."}

Sql Error log:

2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      Error: 17156, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      initeventlog: Could not initiate the EventLog Service for the key '335289A1-FCB0-47', last error code is 2.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP1) - 10.0.2531.0 (Intel X86)
Mar 29 2009 10:27:29
Copyright (c) 1988-2008 Microsoft Corporation
Express Edition on Windows NT 6.0 <X86> (Build 6001: Service Pack 1)

2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      (c) 2005 Microsoft Corporation.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      All rights reserved.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      Server process ID is 4384.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      System Manufacturer: 'Gateway', System Model: 'Gateway M680'.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      Authentication mode is WINDOWS-ONLY.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:\Users\William\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS08\error.log'.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.58 Server      Command Line Startup Parameters:
-U c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS08\MSSQL\Template Data
-d C:\Users\William\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS08\master.mdf
-l C:\Users\William\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS08\mastlog.ldf
-e C:\Users\William\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS08\error.log
-c
-K
-S SQLEXPRESS08
-s 335289A1-FCB0-47
-w 60
-T 1617
2009-05-02 22:32:53.89 Server      SQL Server is starting at normal priority base (=7). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.89 Server      Detected 1 CPUs. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.90 Server      Perfmon counters for resource governor pools and groups failed to initialize and are disabled.
2009-05-02 22:32:53.91 Server      Using dynamic lock allocation. Initial allocation of 2500 Lock blocks and 5000 Lock Owner blocks per node. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2009-05-02 22:32:54.03 Server      Node configuration: node 0: CPU mask: 0x00000001 Active CPU mask: 0x00000001. This message provides a description of the NUMA configuration for this computer. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2009-05-02 22:32:54.07 spid7s      Starting up database 'master'.
2009-05-02 22:32:54.81 spid7s      Recovery is writing a checkpoint in database 'master' (1). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2009-05-02 22:32:56.63 spid7s      Error: 5598, Severity: 16, State: 2.
2009-05-02 22:32:56.63 spid7s      FILESTREAM feature is not supported on user instances.
2009-05-02 22:32:56.63 spid7s      FILESTREAM: effective level = 0, configured level = 3, file system access share name = 'SQLEXPRESS08'.
2009-05-02 22:32:56.70 spid7s      SQL Trace ID 1 was started by login "sa".
2009-05-02 22:32:56.77 spid7s      Starting up database 'mssqlsystemresource'.
2009-05-02 22:32:56.80 spid7s      The resource database build version is 10.00.2531. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.29 spid7s      Error: 15466, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.29 spid7s      An error occurred during decryption.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.65 spid7s      The current master key cannot be decrypted. The error was ignored because the FORCE option was specified.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.69 spid7s      Error: 5602, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.69 spid7s      The service master key regeneration was successful.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.81 spid7s      Error: 5604, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.81 spid7s      The password regeneration attempt for SA was successful.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.81 spid7s      Server name is 'WILLIAM-PC\335289A1-FCB0-47'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2009-05-02 22:32:57.81 Server      Server local connection provider is ready to accept connection on [ in reply to Search feature

Silverlight web designer IIS7 plug in. [Silverlight web designer IIS7 plug in.]

William Stacey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:01:48 GMT

Why not create a plug-in for IIS7 that allows users to design web site in a browser using silverlight. No VS required. Just a silverlight app to design silverlight web pages. Would make creating and hosting simple/medium complex pages a breeze. Kinda like PopFly with drag and drop and WYSIWYG designer with web design focus. Is there such a host already?

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