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Happy New Blog!

Wednesday 7 January, 2004, 04:15 PM

Blatant Self-Promotion and Smoke Tests

Wednesday 7 January, 2004, 06:34 PM

Shortcuts for Every Occasion

Wednesday 7 January, 2004, 07:48 PM

XAML Dynamic Property Updates

Thursday 8 January, 2004, 04:36 PM

Take Me Away From The River

Friday 9 January, 2004, 06:04 PM

URL Dogma

Monday 12 January, 2004, 02:16 PM

More URL Rewriting

Wednesday 14 January, 2004, 07:05 PM

XAML Dynamic Property Updates Update

Wednesday 14 January, 2004, 09:21 PM

Avalon ImageEffects and Vector Graphics

Saturday 17 January, 2004, 03:55 PM

'Inside XAML' Up on ONDotnet

Tuesday 20 January, 2004, 11:40 AM

What's in a Cast?

Tuesday 20 January, 2004, 08:53 PM

Benjamin Mitchell is a Regional Director

Sunday 25 January, 2004, 04:32 PM

Nodes and Edges

Sunday 25 January, 2004, 08:25 PM

Obligatory London Bloggers Dinner Blog Entry

Tuesday 27 January, 2004, 02:56 PM

So What Exactly Is a Variable?

Thursday 29 January, 2004, 02:49 PM

If It Ain't Broke...

Sunday 1 February, 2004, 06:26 PM

Voicemail Hit and Run

Friday 6 February, 2004, 11:58 AM

Source Code, Context, and Visual Cues

Friday 6 February, 2004, 03:29 PM

Rubber Band Selection Outlines in Avalon

Friday 6 February, 2004, 08:28 PM

Longhorn SDK Help Performance Tip

Tuesday 10 February, 2004, 12:39 PM

Zooming XAML

Friday 13 February, 2004, 02:46 PM

C# V2.0 Delegate Syntax and Conceptual Integrity

Monday 16 February, 2004, 02:06 AM

Suboptimal Network Connectivity

Tuesday 17 February, 2004, 01:00 AM

64-bit CPUs with Baggage

Wednesday 18 February, 2004, 10:23 PM

Excellent Graphics Articles

Wednesday 18 February, 2004, 11:35 PM

Closure(s)

Thursday 19 February, 2004, 01:54 PM

Application Servers and DB Security

Wednesday 25 February, 2004, 01:40 PM

Apologies for Outage

Friday 27 February, 2004, 12:34 PM

Caller ID for Email

Saturday 28 February, 2004, 04:53 PM

'Introducing the New Avalon Graphics Model' Up on MSDN

Saturday 28 February, 2004, 05:29 PM

This is why I don't like extensions in URLs

Saturday 28 February, 2004, 06:36 PM

Feeling Stressed?

Thursday 4 March, 2004, 11:19 AM

Know Your Command Prompts

Thursday 4 March, 2004, 07:59 PM

PathPing

Friday 5 March, 2004, 03:55 PM

'Graphical Composition in Avalon' Up on ONDotnet

Tuesday 9 March, 2004, 09:27 AM

Why I Almost Love ClearType

Wednesday 10 March, 2004, 03:55 PM

Generics, Latent Types, and Type Safety

Sunday 14 March, 2004, 06:33 PM

String.Concat and Performance

Tuesday 16 March, 2004, 05:59 PM

GAC Not Completely Useless

Wednesday 17 March, 2004, 11:27 AM

XOR Still Considered Harmful

Friday 19 March, 2004, 12:55 PM

Monitor.TryEnter, lock, using, and Deadlock

Tuesday 23 March, 2004, 10:57 PM

WinDev 2004 Call for Speakers

Thursday 25 March, 2004, 06:57 PM

What's Google Hiding?

Wednesday 31 March, 2004, 07:52 PM

Service API Evolution

Wednesday 31 March, 2004, 08:44 PM

API Service Evolution Again

Thursday 1 April, 2004, 02:22 PM

Avalon - It's About More Than Flashy Demos

Sunday 4 April, 2004, 06:27 PM

Orange GPRS Internet Setup for Motorola V500

Monday 5 April, 2004, 11:22 AM

The Quick Way To Add Components to the VS.NET Toolbox

Tuesday 6 April, 2004, 11:20 PM

Declarative vs Imperative, Markup vs Code, and More Goop vs Less Goop

Tuesday 6 April, 2004, 11:32 PM

Making Authenticode Look Good

Wednesday 7 April, 2004, 02:16 AM

Entering an Avalon UI Context

Friday 9 April, 2004, 12:06 PM

Why I Don't Have a Tablet PC

Thursday 15 April, 2004, 03:03 PM

Page 23 Meme

Monday 19 April, 2004, 10:52 AM

What Locks Are You Holding Right Now?

Tuesday 20 April, 2004, 09:43 AM

ReaderWriterLock vs Monitor

Monday 26 April, 2004, 05:58 PM

Oh No! Not the TimedLock Again!

Monday 26 April, 2004, 11:32 PM

Hashtables and Dictionaries and Nulls, Oh My!

Tuesday 27 April, 2004, 01:22 PM

Finally, Free From WinCE Documentation

Tuesday 27 April, 2004, 05:02 PM

IO Scheduling

Thursday 29 April, 2004, 11:23 PM

Angry Space Baboon

Monday 3 May, 2004, 12:11 AM

CryptDecrypt and NTE_BAD_DATA

Tuesday 11 May, 2004, 09:54 AM

Cryptic Countdowns

Tuesday 11 May, 2004, 11:27 AM

Defaults and API Design

Tuesday 11 May, 2004, 01:12 PM

Stack Traces and the TimedLock

Wednesday 12 May, 2004, 10:42 AM

How to Play Nicely with IO

Wednesday 12 May, 2004, 11:44 AM

When to use the ReaderWriterLock

Wednesday 12 May, 2004, 04:18 PM

5 Days

Sunday 16 May, 2004, 11:34 AM

One Day To Go

Thursday 20 May, 2004, 10:40 AM

It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Thursday 20 May, 2004, 11:50 AM

The Power of Vector Drawing

Thursday 20 May, 2004, 02:31 PM

Mmm... (Countdown Over)

Friday 21 May, 2004, 06:00 PM

I'm Honoured

Tuesday 25 May, 2004, 07:45 PM

Using ImageEffects on Markup in Longhorn

Thursday 27 May, 2004, 02:07 PM

PluralSight

Thursday 27 May, 2004, 08:32 PM

Debug Builds from the Command Line with Longhorn 4074

Tuesday 1 June, 2004, 04:32 PM

Exchange, Earthlink, and SMTP 550 Errors on SBS 2003

Wednesday 2 June, 2004, 11:25 PM

Bluetooth Mouse Almost a Hit

Thursday 3 June, 2004, 10:09 AM

What Exactly Is an Unmanaged Resource?

Thursday 3 June, 2004, 04:45 PM

Simulating Weak Delegates for EventHandler-like Delegates

Sunday 6 June, 2004, 02:08 PM

Chip Slowdown Speeding Up

Wednesday 9 June, 2004, 02:30 PM

Opening Component Classes in Code View in Visual Studio .NET

Thursday 10 June, 2004, 11:41 PM

Don't lose your HTTP HEAD

Friday 11 June, 2004, 10:31 AM

DirectX Mesh File (.x) to Xaml Converter and The Inevitable Teapot Demo

Friday 11 June, 2004, 05:37 PM

iPods - Are They All That?

Tuesday 15 June, 2004, 01:20 PM

End in Sight for Side-by-Side CLR Versions

Tuesday 15 June, 2004, 03:35 PM

Faster Laptop Hard Disks

Tuesday 15 June, 2004, 05:04 PM

Bizarre Indexer Syntax in C#

Tuesday 15 June, 2004, 06:17 PM

Is WinFS About Lock-In?

Wednesday 16 June, 2004, 02:29 PM

Avalon 3D Introduction on MSDN

Friday 18 June, 2004, 08:54 AM

Bluetooth Mouse Battery Life

Sunday 20 June, 2004, 10:41 PM

Thread IDs and .NET

Monday 21 June, 2004, 09:14 PM

The Latest Bluetooth Mouse Battery Report

Monday 21 June, 2004, 11:14 PM

The Rules for GetHashCode

Monday 21 June, 2004, 11:29 PM

Visual Studio .NET Key Bindings, Chords, and Consistency

Tuesday 22 June, 2004, 10:01 PM

NiMH vs Alkaline Batteries (yes, yet another Bluetooth Mouse post)

Wednesday 23 June, 2004, 12:03 AM

Astonishing Developments on the Bluetooth Mouse Front

Wednesday 23 June, 2004, 04:00 PM

More on VS.NET Key Bindings - Are Chords Too Much?

Saturday 26 June, 2004, 02:45 PM

Frivolous 404 Page

Saturday 26 June, 2004, 03:25 PM

Configuration Section Handlers - What Are They Good For?

Monday 28 June, 2004, 11:05 AM

100th Blog

Monday 28 June, 2004, 01:44 PM

Waiting For Elapsed Time, TickCount vs. DateTime

Tuesday 29 June, 2004, 10:13 AM

Screen Resolution - 100dpi is Not Enough

Thursday 1 July, 2004, 05:38 PM

That's Not a Great Screen - THIS Is a Great Screen

Friday 2 July, 2004, 11:04 AM

Caution - Explosive DVD-R

Saturday 3 July, 2004, 12:19 PM

Event Handlers, Circular References, and Alleged Memory Leaks

Wednesday 7 July, 2004, 04:43 PM

Caution - Exploding Ducks

Sunday 18 July, 2004, 04:49 PM

BOA Unmasked

Tuesday 20 July, 2004, 12:23 PM

The Monty Hall Problem

Wednesday 21 July, 2004, 04:05 PM

ClearType in Longhorn is Great

Thursday 22 July, 2004, 01:25 AM

Viewing DataSets when Debugging in VS.NET

Wednesday 28 July, 2004, 02:52 PM

Better DataSet Viewing Today

Thursday 29 July, 2004, 06:02 PM

Raw Sockets Gone in XP SP2

Thursday 12 August, 2004, 02:07 PM

IL (or Java Bytecode) in Silicon - Just Say No

Thursday 12 August, 2004, 05:48 PM

Repeat After Me: C# Destructors Are NOT Like C++ Destructors

Thursday 12 August, 2004, 10:11 PM

Why I Stopped Using My iPod

Monday 16 August, 2004, 02:30 PM

Apple, Parlaying and the iTunes Music Store

Monday 16 August, 2004, 06:38 PM

When to Catch Exceptions

Monday 16 August, 2004, 08:08 PM

Locking, Anonymous Delegates, and Interrupts

Tuesday 17 August, 2004, 09:53 AM

When Synchronous Locking Goes Bad

Tuesday 17 August, 2004, 01:04 PM

Phishing IQ Test Considered Harmful

Tuesday 17 August, 2004, 03:41 PM

'Secure' Is Just Conjecture

Thursday 19 August, 2004, 11:10 PM

James Gosling on Window System Architecture; Reinvents DirectX

Saturday 21 August, 2004, 03:51 PM

DataBinding, Layout, Avalon, and Windows Forms 2.0

Sunday 22 August, 2004, 06:12 PM

Resolution Independence in Mac OS X

Tuesday 24 August, 2004, 05:46 PM

How To Flood Fill in GDI+ (and Why You Don't Want To)

Sunday 29 August, 2004, 12:22 AM

What Is RegSrvc.exe And Who Put It On My Machine?

Monday 30 August, 2004, 08:22 PM

Avalon For All

Tuesday 31 August, 2004, 05:04 PM

Thirty Years of Backwards Compatibility

Wednesday 1 September, 2004, 04:22 PM

Windows Forms Ate My EventArgs

Thursday 2 September, 2004, 11:00 AM

Complexity of APIs

Thursday 2 September, 2004, 03:33 PM

Is Oracle a Service?

Thursday 16 September, 2004, 10:22 AM

A Question of Scale

Thursday 16 September, 2004, 02:34 PM

Generating Permutations with C# Iterators

Thursday 16 September, 2004, 03:02 PM

Doing Work Without Threads

Thursday 23 September, 2004, 10:30 AM

GDI+ Patch Considered Patchy

Sunday 3 October, 2004, 10:48 PM

.NET Threading Resources

Saturday 9 October, 2004, 11:19 PM

IPropertyChange Today: Whidbey-Style Data Binding with PropertyDescriptor

Saturday 23 October, 2004, 02:10 PM

How To Stop a Thread in .NET (and Why Thread.Abort is Evil)

Friday 12 November, 2004, 09:14 PM

Getting Stack Traces of a Running .NET Process

Tuesday 16 November, 2004, 05:19 PM

Debugging Applications Launched from Outside the Debugger

Friday 19 November, 2004, 11:49 PM

Avalon on XP

Saturday 20 November, 2004, 04:06 PM

Why Writing Into .NET Application Configuration Files Is a Bad Idea

Thursday 25 November, 2004, 12:27 PM

DirectX Mesh (.x) to XAML Converter Update for CTP

Thursday 25 November, 2004, 08:13 PM

You Don't Need a 'Main' Form

Tuesday 30 November, 2004, 02:39 PM

Animating Custom Types in Avalon

Thursday 2 December, 2004, 03:49 PM

VS.NET 2005 Broke Ctrl-F5!

Thursday 16 December, 2004, 03:26 PM

Reply to H_A_S_H on Gosling's Window System (and also ClearType)

Thursday 16 December, 2004, 04:40 PM

Rendering Moving Pictures is Hard

Thursday 16 December, 2004, 07:05 PM

Ctrl-F5 Panic Over

Thursday 16 December, 2004, 09:25 PM

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