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After several months of craziness, I am re-starting the Atlanta Geek Dinner. Please join me on October 25th, 2007 (a Thursday night) for beer, eats and lots of gabs. This geek dinner will be in the Perimeter Center area. Please RSVP so I can get a good count for the dinner.
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I've been digging into Moonlight and with a lot of help on the Olive mailing list I finally got the current build of Moonlight built on Ubuntu 7.04. Here it is on Silverlight.NET's Showcase page:
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Most of my exposure to LINQ has been in very short snippets and sessions at various conferences and blogs. My initial reaction was fairly negative. This negative reaction was based on several key factors:
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This blog post may seem to be a clever way of increasing my web traffic but the fact is that I am growing frustrated with the adoption of Vista and Microsoft's general under-delivering on Vista.
After teaching Silverlight this week and spending my evenings digging into Moonlight, I am getting used to the fact that Silverlight fits into a graphically and functionally intense ecosystem that includes Adobe's offering (Flash, Flex, or Apollo) and open source equivalents (Moonlight, SVG, et al.). So I really wonder how many technologies are really at odds here. Of particular interest (because I am only now digging into how it works) is SVG.
So as you may know, my XBox died again...but it ended up fine in a wierd way:
This is geting pretty old. Two rings of death, a bad video card and now a blown DVD drive. Next time the whole console is going to just melt...
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