This is cool, on Microsoftgadgets.com we've upped the ante. Last time you three lucky people won Xbox 360s for the gadgets they created, this time you can win a trip to the MIX06 conference. The prize includes $1000 in airfare, admission to the conference and accommodation at the Venetian. Looking f…
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Mike Ormond, who's been hacking away at his UK MSDN Nugget Videos gadget, has been doing a good job of documenting his progress. Two valuable recent posts include, a debugging checklist and a walkthrough on how to debug your gadget in Visual Studio.…
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On November 1st, we announced a Gadget contest on MicrosoftGadgets.com. Last night I was pleased to send congratulatory emails to our three winners. Thanks for the contributions guys, hope you enjoy your Xbox 360!DonavonLive Clock Community rockstarthat set the standardPopolDalXbox Live GamerTag …
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This is a MIX06 wallpaper based on a very cool display done in our building.[1600x1200][1280x1024][1024x800]Oh and Michael Lehman has posted the first episode of the new MIX06 Buzzcast on Channel9. They talk about strucutre and content of the conference. Its crazy to think the conference is actual…
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Ever since, I've had a computer at work and a computer at home, I've wanted Live Favorites. I wasn't sure of the name back then, but I'm happy they've arrived. I've had personal web space for long enough that I'd gotten into the habit of passing text files back and forth using the web server as so…
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Based on donavon's comment, I realized the only way you could truly mix up the MIX06 conference flair is if you had access to the full data, not just a script with one option. In response, I've published an RSS list of the MIX06 flair images. And I say "list" because I'm making use of the …
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I've updated the MIX06 flair script to include a new set of larger vegas-themed images. The script now randomly grabs from either set, but you may not want the new larger colorful set, or you may want to ditch the smaller black and white set. So I've left the option up to you. Following is the s…
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I missed this from last month, but Duncan announced that he will be joining our team this month. I think I first spoke with Duncan around 2001 through forums (mainly GotDotNet), but during the interview process I finally got to meet him in person. I happy to have an experienced developer and well …
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PDC is great, its a lot of fun, and very interesting to see all of the new technologies that are coming out. But as a Web Developer/Designer/Community/Experience guy, I only really get into about 60% of the content, and then end up really using about 30% of the content on average. But when I heard…
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Its the 5th and I'm saying "Happy New Year!". Its 2006 and I've still got the PDC05 ch9 guy on my site. Yep, so I'm a little behind, but that has something to do with all the work.Not suprising I am working on a new blog design, and when I do a new design I usually redo the codebase as wel…
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