Contest (for US residents only, of course)

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May 252005
 

Start something amazing. That’s the assignment of the contest. Tell a story about your passion, or something you devote a lot of time to for some reason. Or nominate a friend or colleague. Since this is a contest held by Microsoft (in association with National Geographic) your story should include something about their products. How you use them when doing the things you like so much, or how you used them to accomplish that dream you always had.
There are 5 categories to submit your entry to, so…good luck.

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Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 CTP

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May 252005
 

If you develop for PDA’s or other mobile devices, you will love this Emulator. It runs ARM instructions (not only x86) and it has full ActiveSync capabilities, so you can setup a real relationship between the emulator and your PC. Read more here.

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WASD?

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May 212005
 

WASD, probably the most used keys in PC-games, since they enable you to move around since the Quake2-days. But it kinda sucks. So do these guys think. I think it’s a nice keyboard, but it’ll suck when you need to type. But wait a minute: the keyboard layout is changeable… WAY COOL!

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Visual Studio changed pricing

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May 202005
 

Microsoft actually listens (so hopefully they will change the It Just Works slogan as well) to customers. There was a big rage when the new VS.NET 2005 and accompanying MSDN subscriptions where announced, since the pricing was outrageously different and higher. Things have changed. A little bit, but it changed. Read it in Rick‘s weblog.

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OR Mapping to be patented

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May 202005
 

Software patents are bad. Most developers know that, but money-smelling-egos seem to make more noise. So…how about patenting a “mapping architecture for arbitrary data models“, or loosely interpreted “OR mapping”, since that’s a big hype at the moment. I think this sucks. We need to stop this. No software-patents!

We should protect ideas, but not like this. Patents are there to make money (not in the least by the patent-registrators) and not to protect ideas.

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Back from Norway

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May 192005
 

Norway is a great country. Although I’ve only been to Oslo, I saw enough of the country and its history to start loving it. We had great weather (fortunately for the royal family on the 17th as well). I’ll post a link to some pictures in the next couple of days.

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May 122005
 

Blogging around I stumpled upon this game Bontãgo. If you have kids, or you like to play with kids, you know how they like to pile up colorful blocks. As high as possible. Well, that’s a bit what Bontãgo is about: conquer the arena by creating high (and wide) structures of blocks. It looks simple, but it’s not so simple to win. You can play single player, or multiplayer over a network. Have a try, and download it here. There is a 4.11Mbyte lite version (one background, no music) and a 23MByte full version (high resolution backgrounds, with music).

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