Making it happen
Archive for November, 2007
New editions of Visual Studio Express
Nov 22nd
Check here (thanks Adrian), also take a look at VPL, a visual language used by Microsoft Robotics Studio, not exactly new but resembling to Windows Workflow ? Robotics Studio also seems to have a Visual Simulation Environment, that is, 3d simulations of the robots – wow!
But my favorite is Popfly Explorer.
And apparently I was remembering incorrectly that you can’t build commercial products using these Express editions, well, I was wrong:
7. Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?
Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built using Visual Studio
Express Editions.
Future update of MFC will be based on BCG controls
Nov 20th
Yes that’s right 
MFC will feature some controls from BCG like the Office 2007 ribbon, Visual Studio docking panels etc – seems like BCG’s source code for these controls is much cleaner than Microsoft’s own code so they decided to partner with them rather than package their internal code nicely and expose it ).
How to bold one windows menu item
Nov 16th
Ah the good old times when messing with the Win32 SDK – you can quickly make a menu item bold by using SetMenuDefaultItem, there may also be an undocumented MF_xyz but who knows ?
Fun facts about Linus Torvalds
Nov 16th
Linus Torvalds once found a segmentation fault in the universe.
Linus Torvalds can run kill -9 and kill Chuck Norris.
Linus Torvalds doesn’t die, he simply returns zero.
Linus Torvalds first written program had artificial intelligence.
Linus can divide by zero.
Linus Torvalds runs Linux on his wristwatch and toster.
…. continued here
How Microsoft is wasting time …
Nov 9th
… instead of competing with Google, the latest software received here:
- Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007
- Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Terminal Services 4.1 with SP1
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SP3 Upgrade
Google Calendar xml feed
Nov 8th
Ok I know they wanted to syndicate the calendar to an atom feed so it can be read by anything however maybe they should have added some extensions for the event time, location, etc ?
When: Fri Nov 23, 2007 16:00 to 17:30 EET Where: Sala Montreal, etajul 1, World Trade Center Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Clientilor le place sa fie auziti, ascultati
Wurbe 3 programming party
Nov 6th
At last, one coder meeting in Bucharest ! Kind of different from the ones in Silicon Valley or in the nordic countries, it was cool nonetheless and not that geeky as it happened in a pub with beers and such.
I teamed up with EvilChelu and Zmack and worked on a lolcats generator from my site and Pisi’s pisicavagaboanda. It didn’t end up as expected still I did a Romanian text convertor into lolcat speech, managed to upload something to flickr from C# code (btw I was the only one coding in .NET) and to automatically post comments to a wordpress.com blog (that got into spam of course 
).
Nihasa has more details, also check his pictures here.
Ideas for mobile applications
Nov 5th
Here’s a list with the users’ most requested applications that need to be done for Nokia mobile phones.
