By Kenny on
9/16/2008 8:55 PM
I created a Google Gadget that helps you keep track of your Weight Watchers points throughout the day. It'll show up right on your Google home page, staring you in the face throughout the day, reminding you to keep track of your points.
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By Kenny on
8/2/2008 7:56 PM
A reader, Diane, asked me about mp3's with bookmarking and what mp3 player I use. Here is my response...
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By Kenny on
7/29/2008 12:54 PM
I looked around and didn't see one, so I decided to build it.
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By Kenny on
7/19/2008 7:48 PM
I'm embedding my proof of concept that I made with the new Visifire Silverlight Charts. I realize the animations are flashy but useless. That's OK, I'll eventually stumble upon "sexy" and "useful" when it comes to data visualizations (Good Heavens, I'm a Nerd!)
BTW, those guys at Visifire are awesome. I posted a question on the forum and within a half hour I got a response.
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By Kenny on
7/16/2008 9:45 PM
I've been wanting to do what Visifire has just done for some time now: create stunningly beautiful, animated chart controls. Not only that, but these are open source and available under a GPL 3.0 license.
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By Kenny on
7/14/2008 11:25 PM
So my new friend, Sanjay, liked by response (found in my earlier post) and ask me so more specific questions...I hope I gave him some specific answers...
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By Kenny on
7/13/2008 12:14 AM
I responded to a question someone raised on LinkedIn and I'm cross-posting it here on my blog. It's a topic I've discussed with bosses, clients, co-workers, and friends through the years. "How are you a computer programmer, when you studied Latin-American Literature in college?!? Did your college education help you at all?!?"
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By Kenny on
6/19/2008 9:17 AM
Last night I was talking to my friend Brian about what I've been working on lately. Of course, Silverlight came up. But I also mentioned a few other new Microsoft technologies. He asked if there was a site that talked about all cool new things. The only one I could think of was Lynn Langit's Blog, but her stuff is uber-geeky and I'm not sure that's what he was looking for. So here's my attempt to summarize some of the cooler Microsoft stuff that I've been working with or hearing about. I'm sure there will be a sequel or two to this blog post in the future.
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By Kenny on
6/14/2008 7:29 PM
Cloud computing goes beyond just the exciting cool online apps that are here and coming. There are a number of new back-end products being offered. Amazon and Google are leading the way with a number of services that take advantage of the huge infrastructure that they already have in place and which they are willing to share with us (for a small price, of course). Microsoft has felt the pressure and are also offering (some say scrambling to offer) their own cloud computing products,
Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Since Amazon was the first one I tried, I will start with them. It might seem funny at first that the planet's largest book store would be getting into Cloud Computing, but when ...
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By Kenny on
5/8/2008 2:19 PM
There's a lot of buzz about "Cloud Computing" lately. On the user application side we have online word processors, spreadsheets, presentation tools, photo editors, etc. On the back-end we have file storage, databases, web engines, and the like. It's not that the concept of "Cloud Computing" is new, we've been evolving toward this for sometime, but the label is relatively new and it helps us put our finger on what's been done and what we can do in the future....
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