August, 2009

Developer Space

Developer Space
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  • What Apps do you Rock on your Phone?

    Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones. Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I'm going to...
  • They advertise the hell out of scrabble

    But do they do it right? If you've played scrabulous on Facebook then you've, no doubt, experienced the cramped feeling of your scrabble board surrounded by ads that are reaching out, tapping you on the head, and saying "look at me...
  • Alpha Release: Windows Live Writer Feed Insert Plugin

    I've published an alpha release of a Windows Live Writer plugin that makes it easy to pull multiple RSS or Atom feed items into a blog post. Let me know what you think. The download link is here: http://evolvingwe.com/files/FeedInserterAlpha...
  • A Great Sell, Sox Opening Letter to Schilling in 2003

    It's pretty cool to have someone as outspoken and transparent as Curt Schilling blogging about his baseball accomplishments. For me his blog has been inspirational and educational when it comes to my hobby of playing baseball. The post I'm...
  • Rich Text Editor Control on Codeplex

    I was pushing for this release when I was at Microsoft and while I can't explain what took so long I'm just happy that the code has finally been released. Building a Rich Text Editor control is not for the faint of heart, but now you have a starting...
  • Not from the Facebook Conference, but... Penny Arcade! - Facebookery

    Still funny. Penny Arcade! - Facebookery ...read more
  • I've switched

    No, not that switch yet, although seeing ScottW get a 5.1 on the Vista experience score on his Macbook Pro sure makes it tempting. I've finally given up on IE 7 as a default web browser in Vista. For some reason it crashes constantly on me. At...
  • Commentary on Recently Shared Items

    Dare has a great overview of the SimpleDB services. Although there are some downsides to the service it certainly was the next logical step for Amazon in this space. I can't help but wonder where MSFT is in this game. That and if Penton will have...
  • Windows 7 Hotel Room Notification

    I have been slumming it this week in Hawaii working with a Telligent Community customer. This morning, a new (to me?) feature of Windows 7 caught my eye.   Like most hotels, the one I am staying in requires you enable internet access daily. The message...