November 2008 Entries

Silverlight on Windows Update (Windows 7)

Still busy setting up my Windows 7 partition. Just noticed that Silverlight was pushed to it through Windows Update. Cool
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Setting my laptop in dual boot with Windows 7

At the last Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, the attendees were given a pre-beta version of Windows 7, Vista's successor operating system. I installed it on a virtual machine and was very impressed by the performance of Windows 7. Since I just got my new laptop (Alienware m15x) and have been installing stuff anyway, I thought I would give it a try and install Win7 in dual boot on this machine. This is the report of the experiene. Partitioning the hard disk My laptop has a 320GB hard...
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It's podcast season: Herding code

Apparently it's podcast season... When in Los Angeles, Jon Galloway and I managed to sit down an hour and talk about Silverlight, WPF, Blend, my past work at Siemens and my future work at IdentityMine, and of course about my book Silverlight 2 Unleashed. I was kind of sad that Kevin Dente and Scott Koon didn't manage to join us, but the conference was so packed with events that we found time only on the very last day (Thursday) and the two had to go back home already. Still, it was nice to meet the...
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Podcast about RIA and especially Silverlight

Very cool! A podcast I made with Josh Holmes and Mike Labriola a little before PDC is up now on the RIA wireside chat site. During 20 minutes, Mike (an Adobe expert), Josh (a Silverlight evangelist) and I chat about RIAs in general and Silverlight in particular. It was good fun and a very interesting talk. Hope you enjoy it...
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New design for GalaSoft website

It's with great pleasure that I am publishing the new and improved GalaSoft website today. After updating my blog's look and feel to a much better and more modern them, it's now my website's turn. www.galasoft.ch is the place on the web where I post articles and resources in relationship with my work. Historically, it has been my main "home" on the web. Nowadays, things changed and my blog is really where people discover me first. Nonetheless, I want the site to be a great complement to the blog....
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