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Still Painful IE6 Rendering...
Still Painful IE6 Rendering...
October 12, 2007

I've spent the better part of the night dealing with IE6 rendering issues.  I don't have a good test bed set up for testing browser problems for my personal sites so I miss major browser issues sometimes.  I've been using a Visual Studio 2008 Virtual PC image to do some work with Astoria and decided to pull up my site to grab some sample code I uploaded a few weeks ago on the Entity Framework. The VS 2008 VPC is using IE6 so I brought up my site (this site) and was aghast as to how badly it looked.

Atlanta MSDN Event - Astoria and Silverlight
Atlanta MSDN Event - Astoria and Silverlight
October 11, 2007

Url: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.a...

Atlanta Geek Dinner - October 25, 2007
Atlanta Geek Dinner - October 25, 2007
October 10, 2007

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.

Best Practice for Using Presentation Technologies
Best Practice for Using Presentation Technologies
October 10, 2007

Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2007/07...

Motorola Q9m - The First Week
Motorola Q9m - The First Week
October 10, 2007

Url: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/contro...

Silverlight Tour Coming to Chicago, October 29-31st
Silverlight Tour Coming to Chicago, October 29-31st
October 10, 2007

Url: http://www.silverlight-tour.com

More Silverlight Videos!
More Silverlight Videos!
October 5, 2007

Url: http://www.wildermuth.com/silverlight

Halo 3 - The Screenshots
Halo 3 - The Screenshots
October 1, 2007

Url: http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo3/Screenshots.a...

Renewed as MVP!
Renewed as MVP!
October 1, 2007

Url: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/...

ASP.NET   Silverlight == Cool!
ASP.NET Silverlight == Cool!
September 27, 2007

Url: http://www.wildermuth.com/silverlight

Jeff, Steve and Fido
Jeff, Steve and Fido
September 27, 2007

Url: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00096...

Amazon MP3 Music Service is Sweet
Amazon MP3 Music Service is Sweet
September 26, 2007

Url: http://www.amazon.com

Moonlight in Action!
Moonlight in Action!
September 26, 2007

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:

Persistence Ignorance in Entity Framework
Persistence Ignorance in Entity Framework
September 26, 2007

Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/archive/2007/09/...

Heartbeating my Blog
Heartbeating my Blog
September 24, 2007

Url: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ABlogsHeartbeat.aspx

Moonlight 1.0 will not require Mono and be similiar to Silverlight 1.0
Moonlight 1.0 will not require Mono and be similiar to Silverlight 1.0
September 24, 2007

Url: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-24-1.html

Reversing My Opinion of LINQ
Reversing My Opinion of LINQ
September 24, 2007

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:

CD Baby Now Suports MP3 Downloads (sans DRM)
CD Baby Now Suports MP3 Downloads (sans DRM)
September 23, 2007

Url: http://www.cdbaby.com

Is Windows Vista the new Windows ME?
Is Windows Vista the new Windows ME?
September 21, 2007

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.

Is the RIA fight threefold?
Is the RIA fight threefold?
September 21, 2007

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.

Wierd XBox Story...
Wierd XBox Story...
September 15, 2007

So as you may know, my XBox died again...but it ended up fine in a wierd way:

Another Dead 360...
Another Dead 360...
September 14, 2007

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...

Last Minute Registrations for the Silverlight Workshop in Atlanta
Last Minute Registrations for the Silverlight Workshop in Atlanta
September 13, 2007

Url: http://www.silverlight-tour.com/st/workshop.asp...

Emmy's using Silverlight is Sweet
Emmy's using Silverlight is Sweet
September 11, 2007

Url: http://www.etonline.com/emmys/