October 2003 - Posts

posted Monday, October 27, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PDC Day 1

The keynotes have just finished at the PDC and they were pretty impressive. The strong themes coming through are around the UI model that we have in Avalon and the XML messaging subsystem that we have around Indigo. Other bits such as Yukon are more likely Read More
posted Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PDC Day 0 - Pre Conference Talks

so, I've been disconnected from the 'net for a few days because I made a decision not to bring my laptop (circa year 2000, little CPU power, little memory, little harddrive, _lots_ of weight!!!) to the PDC. In fact, I try not to take my laptop anywhere Read More
posted Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Local news

Naturally, there's lots of news coverage around the fires burning over here in California. I sat next to a guy in a bar who reckoned they were down to the South of the city but it looks like they're more to the North & East - guess there's a lesson in Read More
posted Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

On Queues

It appears that the British are spending 33 minutes a week standing in queues. I'm not sure if that's meant to include traffic jams but I'm guessing not ;-) I think I should qualify for a queueing rebate as I've just spent large chunks of the last 3 days Read More
posted Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Sony PSX

Just catching up on various tech news stories - this story that Sony's planning to ship their PSX for around $1000 is interesting - it sounds like a pretty big gamble for Sony to move that box from a single market into spanning a couple of markets. I Read More
posted Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Against the outsourcing trend

Wow - a company moving against the outsourcing trend - I guess it's a blip rather than any sign of a sea-change. Read More
posted Friday, October 17, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Razor-sharp

Ok, so this is a weird thing for me to blog but for many years I've had a soap-box (!) topic of shaving and razors so I always follow razor technology to see if there's anything coming out that's going to alleviate that nasty early-morning drudgery of Read More
posted Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Generating test data

I've been working a little with a requirement to generate a lot of test data (100's of millions of rows) into a SQL Server database and I've been extolling the virtues of BCP (for file based data) or the BCP API (for stuff we generate from code) for quite Read More
posted Monday, October 13, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Joel's article on Unicode

Just wanted to flag up this article on 'Joel on Software' about text encodings. It's just a very, very nicely written article - if you don't get text encodings then have a read. If you do get text encodings then have a read anyway :-) Read More
posted Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Not much blogged

Does it seem wrong to blog the fact that you've not been blogging much lately? Not sure so I'll do it anyway. I've not been blogging as I've been on holiday for much of the last couple of weeks and, consequently, I've not been tinkering with code bits Read More
posted Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PDC Coming Up

so, the next big block of time in my calendar that's booked up is for the PDC and, to be honest, I'm starting to get quite excited about getting over there. Without spoiling any surprises I think it's going to be one of the most interesting developer Read More
posted Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Tablet PC Dev

The MSDN show here has a slow about developing for the TabletPC. When the tablets first came out I managed to grab a hold of the Toshiba for a little while just to play with the inking APIs and wrote a little dummy copy of the Journal application that Read More
posted Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Longhorn Blogs

This site on the forthcoming Windows Client 'Longhorn' release sprung up whilst I was on hols... MSDN has set up a site too here Read More
posted Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

UI's at PDC

Interesting story around what may or may not get shown at the PDC in terms of Windows Client UI's Read More