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Yet another snow storm dumped another 7-8 inches yesterday and made a 20 mile trip home yesterday from the 128-belt an hour and 1/2 hell with lots of spun out cars, and unplowed highways. This morning, it's my weekly time solo with Heather while Sue takes Jonathan off to a class he attends. I am just floored by where Heather is at this age. She is speaking in 4-5 word complete sentences! She will turn 2 the 21st and of course she is going to get a huge party! I actually could go on for paragraphs of how she makes me feel holding her close instead of all this technical crap but I am not sure my brain would let me. In between reading her tons of books and doing lots of things, background threads in my brain are thinking through many blog entries on reactions to articles in the latest IEEE Software issue; blogs on XP practices that I have been meaning to write and what to put in this as well of dozens of other things. Sometimes, I just wish I could shut all that off totally and just be like Heather is, the world as it really is.
So Microsoft has released another version of ActiveSync for download. Since ActiveSync is a major part of my life I have grown to have a Love/Hate relationship with it; well it's mostly hate. The last few releases have been a mess and the new release doesn't tell me anything real. For my feelings on this, see Mike's post on it that reflect what I think too.
Another big mess is the story for Microsoft mobile devices and the name a week churn. Bink has an interesting article on this with the statement that Microsoft is killing off the Pocket PC and Smartphone brands in preference to the Windows Mobile name, an indication of how PDAs are merging with phones. The hardest part in beginning mobile development with Microsoft technologies when I started with Adesso was sorting out the dozen+ overlapping names! Fine, make it Windows Mobile - one brand to rule them all - and then don't change it for at least a year!
The Motley Fool has an interesting take on Microsoft's release of their Anti-Spy-ware tool: “ How would you feel if you were selling flu shots that the clinic around the corner was giving away? In a move that is sure to ruffle the feathers on a pair of software companies, Microsoft(NASDAQ: MSFT) is rolling out free programs to battle spy-ware and pesky computer viruses. “
Copy Type refactoring ; Now more than ever you don't need to wait for Whidbey when you can have all of this vital and powerful functionality today in your IDE
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