used floweradvisor.com to send flowers to China (they deliver worldwide from local flower shops) and was deeply impressed by the service # Even though my address turned out to be invalid, they went an extra mile and asked around, and called all possible phones, and looked up… # …yellow pages to find the recipient. I've …
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Why I hate HTML
There is a wave of wondering on Twitter, why Microsoft speaks so little about Silverlight on this year’s PDC conference. Mary Jo Foley even goes so far citing Bob Muglia saying that Silverlight is [only] the development platform for WP7 apps in her provocative article “Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted”. I’m not sure if Muglia …
PDC10 Sessions
Is it me, or PDC10 looks very strange? There are only two main topics – the phone and the cloud. There are less sessions than in 2009. And the PDC web site (build by Vertigo, who else) doesn’t even allow to link into session detail pages. I might understand such a limitation if the session …
This Week in Twitter
urgently needs one month of unmotivated happiness # bist in der falschen Firma :) @DotNetExpert Als WP7 Dev in DEU kommt man sich ziemlich verarscht vor. Alle Welt hat ein device nur wir nicht in reply to DotNetExpert # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Those who say "Nobody would install Silverlight just to watch this site" have often installed Firefox – just because of its tabs # ??????? ????? ?????? ??????????. ?????? ???? :) http://img.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/idioteka/i/8346386E-4DA2-4D03-AD79-9F41C76C0F2E.jpg # @eldarmurtazin Yes, I'm exited about WP7. At least a reasonable language to develop apps. Not Java-the-modern-COBOL and not C with classes. # Every …
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Impressive technology, but lack of a moving story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoqVDr-RG9E # Cryptography behind PlayReady – explained in a comic: http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html # Powered by Twitter Tools
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WebP is a strong move in terms of WebM promotion. # Powered by Twitter Tools