Living as an expatriate–probably working with some combination of high-tech and art–has always been appealing. At the recent Colorado Stone Sculptor’s meet, I met an artist just back from Ajijic. This small artist-friendly community of US and Canadian expats sounds very appealling. Would love to visit.
Enjoying the best cappuccino I’ve had this side of the Atlantic. The distinct ambiance, flavor and portion size here at the Keko Cafe reminds me of that we experienced in the many trips to Verona, Citta Alta Bergamo, Santa Margherita, and San Gimignano. Oh, the Memories!
The first day of a technical conference often leaves one feeling broadsided. Combine that with a two hour timezone shift and a poor night’s sleep and you’re ready for a Manhatten.
Halfway back to the hotel, I’ve paused in one of my Midtown favorites: Bryant Park (no, it’s not my photo. NewYorkPanorama.com)–given new meaning now […]
Checking into ThirtyThirty tonight. You have to love these venerable old structures. I solemnly promise to never again stay in an NYC Marriott, Hyatt or Hilton, so help me god.
9:55am — Attended Rob Relyea’s “What’s new in WPF 3.5″ presentation and as expected he talked (and demoed) a lot about the coming “Servicing Release.” Some really excellent questions followed. Rob took a lot of notes, promising followups on his blog. Had a very interesting conversation with Vincent Dumas, Director of Software Development at Xceed […]
Very big day at MIX.
Lots of announcements:
- Silverlight 2 beta 1. Wow! Especially the mult-res image delivery! (Deep Zoom)
- IE8: ‘do the right thing’ (IE7 Emulation is turned OFF by default). MS gets it! Two new very cool features: Activities and Web Slices
- WPF 3.5 SP1 is coming! postpone any serious datagrid work (inside scoop).
-TAO […]
1:55pm – Settled into a rediculously posh suite at the Venetian. Off to find some good food prior to 4pm Registration, then 9pm BlogZone.
10:00pm — The Sandbox WPF labs were broken. Will try back tomorrow. Never made it to BlogZone.
Happend upon an O’reilly book release party for their Silverlight 2.0 title. It was a nice […]
Just returned from the annual GIS/CAMA Conference in New Orleans where I was a speaker and my company, CCI, was an exhibitor. CCI launched what is now the industry’s most advanced Computer Aided Mass Assesment (CAMA) solution, RealWare V5, which I first alluded to last December. It’s my first time at this conference and this […]
I will be blogging from MIX08 in Las Vegas all next week. This is my first MIX. Really looking forward to it!
From the observation deck of the needle, I did a quick experiment: creating a 360-degree panorama for later stitching. Visibility was good (for Seattle) but overcast. Adjusted my zoom to get a good vertical angle of view, then experimentally determined that 12 paces resulted in optimum horizonal overlap. This resulted in 10 handheld shots around […]