SharePoint Joel (http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d%2D183c%2D4fc2%2D8320%2Dba5369008acb&ID=243) has a very nice summary of the current state of Office 2010 and SharePoint discussion points that are covered by and released from the current NDA’s. If you’re looking to blog or present on the new features – take a quick read through the post above.
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I want! http://nevver.tumblr.com/post/128929601/realtime-3d-airtraffic-fubiz Of course I mean the display hardware mostly. The controls seem like they could be refined a bit more.
While I’m looking at my Micro Framework notes, I wanted to push this one out as well. over at CodePlex (http://mftoolkit.codeplex.com) you can find Michael’s toolkit for networking Micro Framework boards. To get your interest, let me just quote directly from the latest release notes:
Oh, did I mention there’s XBee support in there too? OK, I’ll stop typing because you’ve already clicked over and are downloading the toolkit!
Microsoft Hohm enters Beta
Jun 25
Some of you may have already seen the Hohm site – but if you haven’t you can take a look over at www.microsoft-hohm.com (and sign up while you’re there.) I’d also recommend taking a look and possibly subscribing to the team blog – http://blog.microsoft-hohm.com.
So why the blog post? Well lots of people saw what Hohm is about – letting you know your energy usage and allowing you to plan and optimize what you’re using (which is pretty critical as I type this and look at my weather station readings – 107.32F right now.) This helps us survive the bills and the weather and our power grid survive the demand load that summers generate with record breaking heat and expanded populations in the hotter parts of the country.
But there was something in the announcement that I don’t know that a lot of people caught. That was this line in the release – “… if you are a customer of a Hohm-partnered utility company you can choose to automatically upload your energy usage data into the application in the near future.” Hmmm. Now that’s interesting. I was hoping for something like this eventually, but it sounds like the feedback loop of our “Smart Power Grid” efforts are actually starting to come about in the real world! Now that’s progress!
BTW, why did I put this also under Robotics? Because that feedback loop that’s starting to happen is exactly what mobile robots have to do all the time. Not just send instructions on power consumption, but monitor usage, monitor needs, prioritize, and then manage that consumption to goal. Lots of crossover opportunities.
The Windows Mobile 6.5 dev kit is now out, if you’re interested in seeing what’s new and trying it out, you can scoot over to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e and pull it down to test.
And if you’re like me and want to see a good demo of how to work with the devkit and all of the new capabilities of 6.5 – the Widget implementation walkthrough on the Windows Mobile Team blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2009/06/04/getting-started-with-widgets-on-windows-mobile-6-5.aspx) might just be for you.
I had a number of people ask me about PHP and Windows Azure at this past weekend’s Startup Weekend. To spread out the info a bit more, I wanted to point out that the PHP SDK is now up on CodePlex – http://phpazure.codeplex.com/. There’s a lot of info there on PHP and how it fits in with Windows Azure.
With me living in Austin, I get to hear (and talk) about game development a lot. If you don’t know, Austin is the MMORPG development capital of the world. (To go along with the Live Music Capital thing.) Well, there are game design graduate degrees, and college courses in development focused on games, but the local Austin Community College is letting developers get started even earlier by offering Game Camp this summer for Middle and High School students.
These camps will run weekly between June 1 and August 14th here in Austin. The list of guest speakers is quite impressive, and there’s a lot to learn. So if you’re interested, check it out at www.gamecamp.org.
Note this is an overview type camp – you’ll get an introduction to all the different parts. The industry as a whole, design fundamentals, Art and Design for games, programming techniques, career overviews, and a good look at what it takes to break into the industry.
Exchange 2010 Beta up
Apr 15
I’d missed this yesterday, but it appears that those looking to see what the next wave of Exchange looks like have to wait no longer. The first beta of Exchange 2010 has arrive and can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7
(Note 64 Bit only, but it WILL install on Vista with SP1 if you want to eval functionality.)
Design your Dream PC
Apr 10
us has introduced a new challenge – tell them what you want in a PC and they’ll look at the entries and build the winning design!. http://www.wepc.com/
If you haven’t seen the series yet, there are some great video tutorials (with code) going up at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx
As I start my upcoming “Coding outside the Box” series, I’ll be pointing to some of these for greater depth on the steps of my project.
