Is WPF/E really named after David Silverlight?

Reporting the release to the public of MS Silverlight (codename WPF/E) I was wondering if that product has been named after David Silverlight, creator of many community websites like Community…

Social bookmarking by Microsoft

Microsoft communities just released to the world a public beta version of Tagspace: Tagspace* is a social bookmarking service for software professionals** that encourages sound sleep and sweet dreams…

Where the name Silverlight come from

Yesterday I was wondering about the origin of the name "Silverlight".Today I got the answer I was looking for, on the Starbucks .NET Developer blog: Microsoft Silverlight - What an Honor!!!The article…

WPF/E has name: Silverlight

Sunday 15th was NAB day, and everybody was waiting for some shocking announcement from Apple (which announced only a professional version of Final Cut Server), but the shocking announcement came from…

Leopard to be delayed till October

From Apple Hot News: ... we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver…

My HDD is going to die soon, now I've the proof

Thanks to Igor for spending an hour on MSN helping me analyzing the reason of the poor performances of laptop. He told me about a thing I was not aware of: the S.M.A.R.T. attributes for an hard disk.…

Intellisense for SQL

Intellisense allows developers to be faster when writing code, and it can be used for almost everything inside Visual Studio, from C# code to general XML formats and CSS. But when writing SQL queries…

Running with an iPod

Everybody is speaking about the 100 millionth iPod sold, so no point repeating the same thing again and again. I decided to keep my Apple/iPod posts to less than one per week. So, for this week, I…

MindBlog and other cool blogs

Before heading to Queenstown and Wanaka for Easter, I subscribed to a few blogs by .NET Wellington developers. They are all written by people working for the same company: Mindscape. Mindblog: the…