WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation/Embedded) is now available in a CTP form. Scott Guthrie has a blog entry about it that explains what WPF/E is in a bit more detail.I've downloaded the extensions and had a look at a few of the samples. Looks pretty cool :-) and the page turner sample is visually very impressive. Read more

I've been watching a bunch of movies on my iPod recently - the "boys movies" that I can't watch at home when my girls are around - the Matrix trilogy, War of the Worlds, Fast & the Furious, etc.It's pretty easy to convert a movie to an iPod with Videora but there are some settings that... Read more

The SMH has an article about Sony and their late entry to the Australian market.  It's quite an interesting article in that Sony get all hot about their Blu-Ray compatibility. After reading it though I had to wonder what Sony was really up to with the PS3. Here's a few comments that made me wonder: "The... Read more

So the new version of the .NET Framework is now available.  For some reason it's called version 3.0 even though it's really just Version 2.0 with fries.  I guess it must be something to do with Microsoft's reputation of needing to get to Version 3.0 of a technology before it's seen as mature. P.S. The extra's... Read more

The Yahoo UI blog has a good review of the performance impacts of multiple HTTP requests.  As you would expect, reducing the HTTP requests has a big impact on the web page performance. Unfortunately the post only talks about the problem.  We have to wait for Part II to see what the impact of caching is... Read more

Only one week left until the Aussie release of the Wii.The SMH has an article about it and how in the US the Wii sold at a rate of about 1 per second in it's first 8 days (600,000 units), and sold about 3 times as much as the PS3.I'm pretty sure it'll sell more than... Read more

I posted a few weeks back about the Guidance Automation Toolkit and how I was struggling with the learning curve.Well, it appears I'm not the only one, and as a result I've given up on it for the time being.Instead I've gotten back into CodeSmith. I used version 2.6 a few years back for a code... Read more

Now that the Wii has made an appearance in the US there's a bunch of "unboxing" posts showing what's "inside the box". Here's a few links Paul Thurott's Supersite for Windows Engadget That Tech Chick (shows what's under the top flap - gamecube connectors!) Come on December 7 - hurry up!! And of course there's some... Read more

...Especially when popular blogs like Creating Passionate Users gets into your training facilities and notices how (not) current your employee of the quarter board is.I tell you, that made me chuckle :-)And then I had to stop and think. How well am I treating my staff? Thankfully I'm in the middle of informal reviews with them... Read more

OK, so maybe Google did think the whole lawsuit thing through when they bought YouTube. According to the SMH web site they've set aside $200M for settling lawsuits.That's some serious cash! And as a honeypot I'm sure it'll attract the lawyers in swarms. I suppose the thinking is that you get all the lawsuits out of... Read more

Nintendo UK has been keeping the steady stream of videos coming of people playing on the Wii (and Zelda in particular).Recent updates include people protecting carriages, fishing, goat herding and doing horseback combat. Way cool :-). The US site also has people trying out excite truck.3 weeks to go until the Australian release. Time goes so... Read more

According to MSDN:Windows Vista and Office 2007: Availability on MSDN SubscriberDownloadsOffice 2007 is nowavailable from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Windows Vista is expected to beavailable on Friday November 17, 2006 PST.Might be time to start downloading :-) Read more

Continued from Part I   So what does SiteMeter offer in comparison to MyBlogLog? Sitemeter has a lot more reporting options than those offered by MyBlogLog.  It's supported through the advertising shown on it's stats pages whereas mybloglog seems to rely more on people paying for the "pro" version. Sitemeter is a pretty ugly thing to look... Read more

A few days have passed now since I started using the MyBlogLog stats tracking system. Here's my impressions on it and a comparison of it to SiteMeter - the system I use normally.OverviewBoth systems rely on the inclusion of a small bit of JavaScript code in your blog template to track visitors - where they came... Read more

At work people sometimes ask where I get some of the inspiration for the ideas I have.  Well like most people I normally just stand on the shoulders of giants and borrow from other peoples creative thinking and skills.  I have two main sources - blogs and mailing lists. Blogs I commonly read (visit the sites... Read more

Well, kind of...The Australian Scrum Community is a new shared blog with a focus on all things Scrum (as in agile, not union or league). They even linked to one of my posts :-)It would be nice to have some sort of membership or sign up system, but since it's relatively I'm willing to give it... Read more

There' s a rather long but very interesting paper by Henrik Kniberg about his experiences establishing scrum with multiple teams over the last 12 months. Lot's of really practical stuff in there including the things that didn't work so well.  The information about testers and how they fit in the scrum process was excellent, and I... Read more

One of my scrum teams was recently struggling to get through some items because of the time the software was taking to build in Visual Studio 2005. The solution has over 20 projects in it and is centred around a precompiled ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site project.The first step was to change was the project style. The... Read more

Well, the standalone trackback tool I posted about yesterday seems OK, and since then I've also found SimpleTracks and HaloScan.Unfortunately, it seems that many of the trackback systems reject "trackback pings" if they don't come from the site the blog is on due to spamming. This is a bit of a shame since I can't create... Read more

I recently ran across MyBlogLog (at InstaBloke) where it was tagging outgoing links and ranking them in terms of popularity. I thought to myself "That's kinda useful" so I've whacked it on this site (without link tagging for the moment) to see how well it tracks things. Since I normally use SiteMeter I'm interested to see... Read more