Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outletThoughts that Chris Sells has about whatever interests him that dayProgramming WPF enters 2nd printing!- February 21, 2008 Wahoo! You love us, you really love us! : ) When a book goes to another printing, 100% of the time, there's a list of "errata" (aka "mistakes") that are fixed in the new printing. In this case, neither Ian nor I have any fixes to apply. So, it's official -- the book is perfect! : ) Thanks for reading.http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2171 Bridging object models: the faux-object idiom- February 20, 2008 My 1997 master's thesis came online today (he says, trying not to flinch). Here's the abstract: Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) is the dominant object model for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. COM encourages each object to support several views of itself, i.e. interfaces. Each interface represents a collection of logically related functions. A COM object is not allowed to expose multiple interfaces using multiple inheritance, however, as some languages do not...http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2170 .NET Source Code Mass Downloader- February 6, 2008 On 11608, Microsoft announced the ability to download some of the .NET Framework source code for debugging. This download process was only supported inside of a properly configured Visual Studio 2008. 21 Days Later: Kerem Kusmezer and John Robbins released a tool to download the source code en mass. Frankly, I'm surprised it took so long. : )http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2169 I woke up today and decided to win the lottery- February 1, 2008 And so I did the only thing I could to do increase my odds -- I actually played the lottery. (I blame my inability to apply this strategy for my lottery losings in the past.) I did a little research and then went to two local Plaid Pantries to purchase the Oregon Lottery "Trio." At the first Plaid Pantry, an thin, stringy haired older lady behind the counter blinked in surprise when she saw me and then laughed to herself. "I just saw your geek pin. It's so subtle... geek..." she said. "I wish I.http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2168 |