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  • Responding to feedback on Oxite

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    Hey folks, many of you are familiar with the commotion that occurred around Oxite’s initial release. For various reasons, Oxite received a lot of attention from developers, bloggers and press… mostly because it is by Microsoft and it contained a lot of buzz-words that people care about (the two biggest being Open Source and CMS… and of course, the aforementioned ‘Microsoft’). This attention was a surprise to us, but it was mostly positive to start with so we were fairly happy. Even all the positive attention was a bit of an issue for us though, as people repeatedly compared Oxite [read more...]
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  • Newly updated Oxite release available

    Sunday, February 15, 2009

    bring me the lavender frog!Erik pushed out a new release to Oxite today, the first since January 5th. This release is an important one, because it reflects a great deal of changes made in response to internal and external feedback about our initial release.

    From the release notes:

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  • Chatting today amongst the EvNet team

    Friday, August 29, 2008
    Aug 29 10:20 AM Duncan M. source code formatting checked in Duncan M. http://localhost/posts/Sampy/PAX-Day-3-In-… Aug 29 10:25 AM Duncan M. Duncan M. Duncan M. I started out with overflow-x:auto ... which would add a scroll bar (at least in FF3), but then I went with white-space:pre-wrap; ... but IE doesn't like that :) Aug 29 10:55 AM Duncan M. Nathan, can you send me the link to those pre-wrap alternates? Aug 29 11:00 AM nathan h. http://users.tkk.fi/~tkarvine/pre-wrap-css… Aug 29 11:05 AM Duncan M. thanks Aug 29 2:35 PM Duncan M. I wonder if we should consider using this site to [read more...]
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  • Best description of twitter I've seen

    Wednesday, July 02, 2008
    From Dave Winer: The flow there is pointless. It's like trying to make a baby by having sex with a rock. First, it's hard to get excited. And second, no baby. [read more...]
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  • Marvel Digital Comics, not perfect, but worth the money!

    Friday, June 20, 2008
    A month or so ago, I went looking to see if there was any way to read back issues of Marvel Comics online… and discovered a complete site around providing exactly that service. With a subscription to the digital comics section, you can view any issue of any series that is available on their online catalog; I sat down a couple of nights ago and read through issues 1 to 100 of Ultimate Spiderman for example. The viewing experience (it appears to be based around some customized version of Adobe’s PDF reader) is acceptable to me, although it sometimes renders [read more...]
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  • Three Cups of Tea is a great book…

    Thursday, June 12, 2008
    One positive side to being stuck at home for two weeks is that I was able to do a fair bit more reading. For the most part, I read magazines and watched movies, but my wife also brought me the book “Three Cups of Tea” about Greg Mortenson’s work in Pakistan building schools for the children of poor rural areas. Mr. Mortenson, an avid mountain climber, ended up spending time in a small village near the base of K2 in Pakistan, barely making it down alive after a failed attempt to reach the summit. Spending time with those people [read more...]
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  • The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

    Wednesday, June 11, 2008
    When I joined my current team, it was called the Channel 9 dev team, because Channel 9 was the big site that they had built and was the center of all of their efforts. You certainly wouldn’t have known that from how we spent the last two years though :) We built a whole new code base for a video blog site and launched a new site (Channel 10) on that code, bringing some of the video style of Channel 9 to a new audience. We often discussed, as we shipped out revision after revision of the Channel 10 home [read more...]
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  • At home, recovering from surgery

    Saturday, June 07, 2008
    It has been a crazy past few months for my health, or at least the appearance of my health. For about 30-something years now, I’ve had problems with my tonsils. This has included one or more bouts per year of tonsillitis, quite a few cases of strep throat and a ton of colds that just seem to end up hitting me as sore throats and lasting way longer than it seems like they should. All standard symptoms of someone who needs their tonsils removed, which is what various doctors have been telling me and my parents for the past 30-something [read more...]
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  • Sunburned at a Chess Tournament

    Monday, April 14, 2008
    Well, this certainly isn't something that happens all that often, but after spending all day at a chess tournament (at Wellington Elementary in Woodinville) on Saturday, I ended up with a sunburn on my face and arms! It turned out to be a really nice day, which was good, since the waiting area for parents and kids (where the parents spend up about 6 to 7 hours, and the kids spend all the time between matches) was outside. Never seen that before, and it was cold and wet enough when we arrived that I was pretty unimpressed with the idea. [read more...]
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  • Another chess tournament this weekend, last one before the state championship

    Friday, April 11, 2008
    A new father-son activity for Connor and me has been to go to chess tournaments, spending a few Saturdays throughout the year in some school gym. Starting last year, we started to play chess at home and he enjoyed it so much that we decided to enter into the Shelton View Elementary school's chess tournament in the Kindergarten category. He did well and had a lot of fun, so it has become the hobby of choice around our house. The best thing about taking him to a tournament is that you can't really tell from his face whether he [read more...]
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