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I’m back from PDC 2008, sitting at my computer, trying to apply in more concrete ways what I’ve learn there, and evaluating how this will affect my projects in the near future. Indeed, Windows Azure was a great announcement, and seems a great platform, though I haven’t worked with it yet. During the PDC, what seems a great product idea popped up ...

Today, I released a minor update to slimKEYS, version 1.2.8479. The three most important new features are: slimSEARCH: You can configure any web search entry to replace spaces by a specific character instead of the default “+”.   This is particularly useful for Wikipedia and Wiktionary searches, since those web sites require spaces ...

DutchTab for Windows Mobile is out of beta, and now officially supports both Pocket PC and Smartphone devices running Windows Mobile 5 or 6. This application is a joined venture with my friend Pascal who made an iPhone version of DutchTab at the same time I was working on my Windows Mobile version. This application is a bill-splitting tool, but ...

A new version of slimKEYS is now available. Though the list of new features is slim, it took me more than just a few hours to get through translation of the interface to French, and to finally make slimVOLUME support 64-bit Vista systems. In the first case, it was a long and tedious job of moving every string to a resource file, translate each ...

I had an agreement. I gave my word. In order to win the book, I had to make a critique of it. I read it. I took notes. I enjoyed many topics, considering the book as a very good read for someone like me who's starting with web development and ASP.NET. But the critique never came. With my current time employment, it fell very low in my priorities. ...

I'm getting crazy. Totally. I'm now convinced aliens kidnapped me in my sleep and changed my Vista installation. This morning, I tried to open a Command Prompt as administrator. I pressed Win-Z, typed ''cmd'', pressed Ctrl-Enter to get to the slimKEYS extended options, made sure the verb was ''runas'' and pressed Enter to launch the app as ...

I bought myself a nice gadget lately; an HTC P4000 mobile phone. While everybody is getting all excited (for good reasons, I admit) about the iPhone SDK, I decided to stick with Windows Mobile, a platform I was used to (both using and developing for). My phone has both a touch screen and sliding keyboard, two features that were important for me. ...

With Scott's Visual Studio's theme rundown, I'm getting requests for my VS Settings file for my older example. I can't give you the exact same colors, as I've tweaked them a little. Fear not, the look is almost the same, but I did change the font. Here's the rationale: With a bigger LCD screen, I do benefit from ClearType. Then ProggySquare ...

I just updated the web site and slimKEYS package for the newly released version 1.2.8069... 8069 you say? What's that? It's my new version numbering. Well, not that new, I stole the idea from Xceed, but it's partly my fault anyway if they use such a number. I even have a Vista widget, err, gadget displaying the current day's version number: ...

The second beta of slimKEYS 1.1.3 is now available for download. With this last beta before the release, I urgently need Vista testers. If you look at the list of changes, you can see a few pending or new Vista features. slimVOLUME Two main things have changed with the slimVOLUME plug-in. First, the window display was redone completely, to use a ...