Ryan Cromwell

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Archive for May, 2007

Google Gears

May 31

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I’m not entirely sure what to think of Google Gears.  It seems most people are focusing on the Database portion of the stack, but it’s the LocalServer portion that has me confused.  Does this not reek of complexity and severe duplication?  After first reading through the LocalServer Overview I thought, cool, this thing is going to serve up [...]

Classic Web 1.0…

May 25

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You know you need to reevaluate your web site when you see the following:

Awesome Tool of the Day: Baretail

May 15

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 Every now and again I find a tool that changes my life.  Baretail is just such a tool.  I don’t know what I did before, but it couldn’t have been good.  Baretail is a log file reader/watcher that trails the end of your log files.  This may not be too exciting for you, but here in [...]

Vista Sidebar Gadget Developer Experience

May 2

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Vista Sidebar Gadgets can be cool, but the developer experience out of the box is severely lacking.  Microsoft doesn’t provide a Visual Studio project template, so Tim Heuer was nice enough to provide one for us.  He does so via a Web Site template, which makes sense since a Sidebar gadget is nothing more than an [...]

Silverlight: .Net for the masses

May 1

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While up in Redmond for the WPF Bootcamp, we had a short time to work with some of the WPF/E, now Silverlight, team members.  At the time Silverlight didn’t make a whole lot of sense in our strategy.  That said, I hope everyone sees the great potential that comes from some of the features surrounding Silverlight 1.1 specifically. Let’s [...]