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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. 

From here.

Consider an applet generated dynamically from a page, the jar having multiple files, that is, classes, images, etc, now prepare for a major WTF of the Java applet plugin, that's right, the server page is called every time a file needs to be read from the archive.

Apparently a "trick" is to have a single class and all the other file encoded in the source code.

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 :)).

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 ?

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 

... 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 

- Customer Care Framework 2005

- Host Integration Server 2006

- Identity Integration Server 2003 

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 ?

<content type='text'>

When: Fri Nov 23, 2007 16:00 to 17:30&nbsp; EET<br>
<br>Where: 	Sala Montreal, etajul 1, World Trade Center
<br>Event Status: confirmed
<br>Event Description: Clientilor le place sa fie auziti, ascultati 

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.

Here's a list with the users' most requested applications that need to be done for Nokia mobile phones.

Here's a paper describing a project similar to what we did last year for Birdspot, a direction I'm also into. However they are using standalone Nokia 6630 for both the capture and the image processing, I still don't get how they capture the image with J2ME MMAPI in a raw format without any encoding in 80 ms, last time I tried it I saved it best in bmp but still got >300ms per capture :(.

Here's a list of J2ME Java Specification Requests, these are documentations for various APIs that can be implemented on J2ME devices, basically mobile phones. The specifications submitted by Nokia have a big change of getting into their phones, so these deserve special attention:

JSR-256: Mobile Sensor API

JSR-257: Contactless Communication API (for RFID tags)

JSR-258: Mobile User Interface Customization API