My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Xbox Live and Netflix

November 06, 2008
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I am surprised that the marriage of Netflix and Xbox has not garnered more attention. The marrying of a movie ...

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Extension Methods and Interfaces

October 31, 2008
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I am a huge fan of extension methods and in a past post I have described how one could add useful methods to existing ...

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What is the Windows Azure Platform?

October 27, 2008
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By the time you read this blog entry the word ‘Azure’ may have a different meaning for most search engines. What is ...

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HTC Touch (Alltel) – Window Mobile 6.1 Upgrade

October 21, 2008
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I have been waiting for a while for the Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade for the HTC Touch (Alltel), and finally HTC (Alltel ...

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Flash Drives at 64GB

October 15, 2008
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Corsair recently announced the release of a new 64GB flash drives. The new 64GB USB Flash Voyager has enough capacity ...

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SMS for Banking

October 14, 2008
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I really believe cell phones will continue to play a much larger role in our daily financial lives, one example I ...

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Silverlight Hosting

October 07, 2008
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Silverlight Streaming is a cool service that makes it easier to deploy and test Silverlight applications. Developers ...

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Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 - Install Failure

October 06, 2008
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The way of the beta release developer is beset on all sides with failed installs, orphaned registry entries and lost ...

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Red Gate's .NET Reflector

September 30, 2008
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If your doing a significant amount of .NET development you have either used Lutz Roeder's Reflector or wished you were ...

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