May 05 2007

Family.Show = I see Dead People

Category: .geek — Amit Bahree @ 1:36 pm

Vertigo has a very cool WPF application called Family.Show which exploits many of the new WPF features (data binding, sexy visualization, styles, templates, animation, etc.) and is a good example of the new "Web + Desktop" app hybrids combining the advantages of both paradigms. Family.Show is a genealogy application that you can use to build your family tree. The timeline implementation is very cool and you can "speed or slow down" time and see how your family tree (or forest) Wink grows.

Vertigo has also posted a 5 minute video if you want to see how it works. You can of course save the data in it's native format but you can also import and export it to GEDCOM using which you can use other genealogy programs.

Before you try and install this you need to have .NET 3.0 runtime installed on your machine. You can download the source code or install it via ClickOnce on either XP or Vista (if you are using IE).

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May 05 2007

New Yahoo Web Messenger

Category: .geek — Amit Bahree @ 12:58 pm

Keeping up with their cool AJAX implementation (part of Yahoo Mail), Yahoo has now implemented a Web version of their Yahoo Messenger. I like the interface – fairly simple which makes it good. Now just waiting for the Vista version of Yahoo Messenger.

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May 05 2007

Microsoft + Yahoo = ?

Category: .microsoft — Amit Bahree @ 9:36 am

Seems like Microsoft and Yahoo discussed a merger where Microsoft would have bought Yahoo; although the deal is off, if it had gone thru the deal would have been worth $50 billion!

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May 05 2007

Outlook 2007

Category: .microsoft — Amit Bahree @ 9:26 am

I love Outlook but in 2007 there are some irritating things. For example if I shutdown Windows with Outlook running, next time it will complain that Outlook was not closed properly and does a file check – so I close Outlook wait for the process to finish before starting to shutdown Windows.

Also every now and then I get the reminders with no reminders as you can see below.

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May 04 2007

Update on Joost

Category: .geek — Amit Bahree @ 6:05 am

Right, quick update on my previous post on Joost – I do have at the moment of writing this 998 Joost invitations; though still only 26 channels. And I don't know what you guys are seeing, but the channels are not quite smooth and get quite jerky.

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May 04 2007

Google Voice Local Search

Category: .google — Amit Bahree @ 5:56 am

Google has a new service called Voice Local Search where you call a toll-free number (in the US) 800-GOOG-411 (for those not from America, 411 is the Information line, similar to 911 is the emergency line). You can use this by category or name of the business and other than the cost of your call it is free. It is handy if you don't have access to a computer and has the same data as that is found on Google Maps. While you can use this with a mobile, Google is recommending to use Google SMS instead from a Mobile.

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May 04 2007

Boeing 737 Stuck in Mumbai Streets

Category: .lol — Amit Bahree @ 5:49 am

I stumbled across this BBC story quite by accident – a driver taking a disused Boeing 737 seemed to get lost at night when transporting the plane when he reached a road with not enough road clearance and abandoned the plane in the middle of the road! This is quite funny though the poor guys who are inconvenienced by this would beg to differ.

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May 03 2007

CS v.next

Category: .misc — Amit Bahree @ 11:54 am

Now that CS 2007 has shipped, CS (a.k.a Community Server – the thing that this blog runs on), has announced their plans for the rest of this year and will have two releases in July and October codenamed Maui and Hawaii respectively. Seem to be interesting changes, enhancements, refactoring, etc that is going on. I have not had the time to dig too much under the covers of CS (not since it morphed from .Text) so I cannot articulate some of the under-the-cover fixes. Read up all the details here.

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May 03 2007

Definition of a "Typical" Architect

Category: .lol — Amit Bahree @ 11:08 am

"…I'll design software that'll run on an OS we're not using, built on components that aren't installed, and that require networking components that aren't installed." Yes

(c) Marc Jennings

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May 02 2007

Software Engineering Proverbs

Category: .lol — Amit Bahree @ 11:39 pm

One of my colleague, Brian, pointed out the Software Engineering Proverbs – which are quite priceless. It sure does remind me of the Top 10 replies from a developer (when code breaks). Smile

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May 01 2007

Joost gone live? Not that I can see it

Category: .geek — Amit Bahree @ 11:24 pm

Contrary to some reports that Joost has gone live with unlimited invites and 150 channels – at least that is not what I am seeing. I don't know if I need to do anything "special", but here is what I have when I login to Joost.

Number of Invites: Zero, yes that is a 0 as in nada, zip, zilch, etc.

 

Number of Channels (so far): 26 – not 150, but 124 less.

Click on the Images above to see the full version.

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May 01 2007

Visual Studio 2005 Plugin for CS

Category: .misc — Amit Bahree @ 10:20 pm

Zeddy has released a plugin for VS 2005  (with a screen-shot on his blog) which allows you to copy and paste the code from VS.NET directly into a CS blog. It only supports C#, so if you are using VB.NET you are stuck with another method (such as copy'ing into Word and then using that – though as Zeddy also points out that has issues). See

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