Dont let anyone hear you type
Published Sun, Oct 16 2005 15:45 | girishb
According to this article , Li Zhuang, Feng Zhou, and Doug Tygar have a paper which allows someone listening to the typing on a keyboard for 15 mins can actually figure out the text being typed. I wonder if this might be a time to buy one of these babies...
Web platform panel discussion
Published Fri, Sep 16 2005 13:22 | girishb
Instead of attending on of the seminars, I have decided to attend a moderated panel discussion on web platform. I think this would be very interesting to hear. There are six participants in the discussion. Lauren : Avalon : Program manager Nikhil : ASP...
WinFX PDC bits and VS.NET 2005 Release Candidate
Published Fri, Sep 16 2005 10:46 | girishb
The bits provided in PDC for WinFX do not seem to play well with the Release Candidate for VS.NET 2005. It managed to corrupt my .NET SDK to a point where VS.NET could not create any projects. I basically had to re-install .NET framework from the DVD...
Atlas
Published Fri, Sep 16 2005 10:44 | girishb
Atlas is an end-to-end application framework for writing DHTML applications using imperative or declarative programming. It integrates with ASP.NET tightly. This is a talk that Nikhil Kothari is presenting. He is the guy who have written ASP.NET server...
Workflows
Published Wed, Sep 14 2005 19:14 | girishb
It is interesting to see that the workflow basically provides almost all the constructs of a language. Can it be that we are in a visual language era? The era where system analysts will design the code and developers design the plumbing. Anyway, I decided...
Platform futures
Published Wed, Sep 14 2005 16:00 | girishb
It was an awesome presentation by Don Box (with his homies). I was impressed by the ease of implementing the different parts of Indigo. It also forced me to think differently. It seems like Microsoft, with all its different innovations presented in this...
Application roadmap:Present and future
Published Wed, Sep 14 2005 13:52 | girishb
Currently we are waiting for a talk presented by Don Box, Dharma Shukla, Doug Walter and Mike Vernal. Hopefully, this would be entertaining. Considering the kind of presentations I have seen by Don before, I would not expect anything less. :)
The next big thing
Published Wed, Sep 14 2005 13:29 | girishb
Window workflow foundation is the new thing coming out of MS. It seems like it will be integrated tightly with sharepoint services and Office 12 so that we can create office documents that are routed, and displayed and emailed to different people depending...
Keynote
Published Tue, Sep 13 2005 15:33 | girishb
The keynotes from Bill gates and by Jim allchin was big on a few things. There was a neat little video with Bill and the guy from Napolean Dynamite with Bill wearing "Vote for Steveo"!!!! There was some cool (graffics heavy) demos from Chris (??) VP Information...
Sideshow !
Published Tue, Sep 13 2005 15:20 | girishb
Originally uploaded by gbvb . This is the coolest hardware/software innovation to come out in today's PDC. This is a new thing that allows you to navigate (in a very small screen) some of the application information. It seems to be able to read RSS feeds...
channel9 man
Published Tue, Sep 13 2005 15:18 | girishb
Originally uploaded by gbvb . Check out the c9 dude walking the aisles before the Keynote speech by Bill.
Check out the T
Published Tue, Sep 13 2005 11:09 | girishb
Originally uploaded by gbvb . We are supposed to get tons of stuff (30GB worth of it). We also got a T-shirt and some other stuff. We are supposed to get "THE GOODS" after Bill Gate's address. Neat stuff.!!
My laptop in PDC :)
Published Tue, Sep 13 2005 11:04 | girishb
my_pc_at_center Originally uploaded by gbvb . Here is one more that my phone took. See, I am happy here.
Better picture
Published Tue, Sep 13 2005 11:03 | girishb
pdc_center Originally uploaded by gbvb . Here is one from the PDC center.
In LA
Published Tue, Sep 13 2005 10:46 | girishb
Finally, I landed in LA at around 9.00 PST last night. Flight was uneventful. I did watch a movie (Mr and Mrs. Smith) and downed a couple of beers. Today seems to be promising...:)
Off to PDC
Published Mon, Sep 12 2005 15:56 | girishb
Finally, I am off to PDC . As it stands, I have about 2 hours worth of time to waste. I did not realize the distance between your home and the airport reduces depending on the amount of time you have to wait. I am looking forward to checking out the ...
Whaddaya know!
Published Thu, Sep 8 2005 20:39 | girishb
I will be at the PDC . Last minute negotiation with the boss helps. If any of the 4 people who may read my blog, are coming to it as well, we can meet up.
Google Desktop II
Published Mon, Aug 22 2005 22:34 | girishb
Desktop II looks really neat. Hopefully they have fixed the index file growth issues. The screenshots really look cool. I remember Scoble drooling over Konfabulator . I wonder if he will love this.. :) You can read up more about this at http://desktop...
voo2dotray, 0.8
Published Sat, Aug 20 2005 10:12 | girishb
http://www.msmvpsphotos.com/girishb/voo2dotray.zip has more stuff. 1. Shows the date next to the task in the menu. 2. Show the number of tasks in a project. 3. Allows manual refresh. 4. Refreshes every hour automatically.
Voo2doTray: A tray application for voo2do
Published Thu, Aug 18 2005 17:33 | girishb
This is an application I wrote against the REST APIs that the Shimon’s excellent http://voo2do.com site provides. I posted about this yesterday . This is a version 0.7 (arbitrary but less than 1.0) of the tray application. This allows you to logon...
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