May 2006 - Posts

Saturday, May 27, 2006 3:14 PM

Posting from Word 2007

Last night I installed both Windows Vista Beta 2 and Office 2007 Beta 2 on my HP NX7010 notebook. For Vista it took about 4 hours to upgrade from Windows XP, more than half of that time was spent on the last step. After the final reboot, my screen went
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Friday, May 26, 2006 1:22 AM

Slides and demos from NTK2006

11th NT Conference (the biggest IT Event here in Slovenia) is over. For all, who attended (or not) my talk or hands-on-lab about building Windows Forms and Smart Clients with Visual Studio 2005, here are the links to the presentation materials: Building
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Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:42 AM

Europe Weather map with Atlas

Continuing with Atlas experiments... This time, it's Europe Weather map , showing real-time weather conditions across some European cities. It's based on VirtualEarthMap control with custom pushpins . Just hover your mouse over some weather sign
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Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:44 PM

New Ministry and Revco releases

Just learned today that both Ministry and Revolting Cocks released new albums this year. Took me a while to find out about those - obviously I don't read anything from the net anymore unless it's got RSS feed :P If you're interested, you can stream the
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:31 AM

Atic Atac PC remake

If words Atic Atac bring a nostalgic smile on your face, hurry up to Retrospec and download this excelent ZX Spectrum game remake for PC [just released today]. Now, I haven't been into gaming for some time, but 20+ years ago, this one had us kids pile
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:36 PM

VB losing on popularity?

Google trends has some interesting stats ...
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Monday, May 08, 2006 1:37 PM

Atlas EuroCalculator

This is more of a local thing, but Slovenia is getting ready to adopt the Euro currency and I thought I could come up with the SIT to EUR currency calculator, wrapping it in a useful declarative Atlas sample. And here it is - copy the following code into
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Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:13 PM

Binding VirtualEarthMap Pushpin images

I've seen many questions regarding Atlas VirtualEarthMap control and assigning different images for different pushpins. The common solution is to use a single image for all pushpins on a map by specifying the map's [code language="C#"]pushpinImageURL[/code]
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Friday, May 05, 2006 12:01 AM

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Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:30 PM

Han Solo shoots first... again!

The Original, Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy is coming to DVD! Apparently available for a limited time (Sep-Dec), "attractively priced" 2-disc sets will include the 2004 version of the movie. Very nice. You can never own too many Star Wars DVDs... :)
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:02 AM

01.02.03, 04.05.06

Now it happened local time too :) Last night, two minutes and three seconds past one, the numbers aligned...
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