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[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/action-required-smart-client-users-group/ ] Recently I browsed INETA to seek for some group and was really surprising. There is no Smart Client user group registered there. Maybe there is a reason? Let’s understand what Smart Client is? According wikipedia , the term "Smart Client" is meant to refer to simultaneously capturing the benefits of a " thin client " (zero...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/new-microsoft-rd-center-in-israel/ ] Just come back from new Microsoft R&D center house warming. Got some photos and (how not?) some comments. Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft), Shimon Peres (the President of Israel), Moshe Lichtman (local R&D center corporate VP) and Danny Yamin (local Microsoft subsidiary GM) were here. The event begun from short introduction of Moshe and...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/gas-price-windows-vista-sidebar-gadget-%e2%80%93-new-version-is-available-for-download/ ] This post is dedicated to some people in Microsoft and it’s subsidiaries. It begun about year ago, when I developed Gas Price information gadget (do not download it there). Before I started, I sent some personal email to those in MSN, who maintains it’s Auto section. I wait two days and got no response...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/special-for-guitar-hero-fans-%e2%80%93-how-to-win-96-cliffs-of-dover-in-expert-mode/ ] Do not believe it’s possible? You can! Build robot . Here how it works in video. via
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/it%e2%80%99s-broken/ ] Hi, everybody. First of all, I want to apologize for the inconvenience, caused by me to all bloggers in blogs.microsoft.co.il. The reason is, that one of my posts got slashdoted . This night our server, hosted in orcweb received month amount of visitors within couple of hours. This cause some problems, that even load balancing farm was unable to leverage. Currently...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/computer-languages-and-facial-hair-%e2%80%93-take-two/ ] About four years ago, I wrote an article about relationship between facial hair and computer languages success (this is cached page, the original article has been lost). Today, I want to recall this article and see what happened with my theory. Let’s start from Fortran, Ada and Simula. Fortran inventor, John Backus, died in Oregon...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/binary-kid/ ] Yesterday, I took two of my children to the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem . This was the second time, my small son, Tony, was there. First time he was 5 years old. Today he’s 7. Following the dialog was there, when we saw machine code emulator (binary calculator) Tony : Daddy, now I know why you and mommy call me “binary kid” Me : Why? Tony ( with enthusiasm ):...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/teched-is-over-%e2%80%93-last-teched-related-post/ ] I know, that I made you tired of all those TechEd related posts . So this is the last one (I’ll post full presentation and demo sources later), I promise. Unfortunately, I’ll be unable to attend bloggers’ lunch (my flight is at 8:20 pm), so I want to tell thank to all bloggers, that rapidly posted TechEd related stuff , to all those...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/my-session-is-over-%e2%80%93-great-thanks-to-all-who-was-there/ ] I want to tell big thanks to all, who come to see us this morning after the party yesterday. I hope, you was satisfied within the session. Thank you very much! If you have questions – feel free to ask (you can leave comments too). Great thanks to Alex too. Wait for us to upload two videos of how we prepared this session...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/teched-eilat-%e2%80%93-day-two-%e2%80%93-i-disappointed/ ] TechEd, Eilat, Day two and I’m very disappointed of what’s going on here. I cannot give more, then five of ten to any session I attended. I DISAPPOINTED! I do not want to tell the names of those sessions, however it looks like nether of presenters worked too hard to prepare it. I DISAPPOINTED . I worked more then two...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/teched-day-1-%e2%80%93-keynotes-%e2%80%93-nice-presentation-in-spite-of-some-bugs/ ] I’m in Eilat, in TechEd event. First impression – very good arrangements. Upon by arrival, the room was ready and it was big and clean. First I couch by some of partners and friends. Then, I was in bloggers meeting, where received some nice toys to play with. Now, let’s speak about...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/yet-other-large-industrial-area-switched-to-vista/ ] I do not think, it's necessary to explain that. Those photos took in large industrial area in center region of Israel. A picture worth a hundred words... ... and a little zoom Long life, Microsoft Windows Vista...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/real-estate-super-picks/ ] Don't you ever want to buy a house? Now it's possible. For only $100, you have brilliant opportunity to turn your drams true. 3 beds, 690 ft² or 1,451 ft² . What can be better? Less, then 33 hours trip to your office. If you want it closer, you'll pay at least $170,000 for 1 bed . Sure, you can also find your next job closer . So, it looks...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/please-someone-can-take-care-on-sluggish-javascript-on-this-blog-platform/ ] I tired, really tired of sluggish JavaScript and bad HTML in templates of this aggregator! Please, someone can take care on it?
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/weird-russians-think-different/ ] Just in case. Following the poll, appears in main page of russian version of Silverlight Challenge (MS official???) Let me translate you options: Have you Silverlight installed? Yes No Still not (planning) I do not like Flash WTF? Is it legit option to ask? There is no such poll on english version of the same web site . The only poll there is and there...
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