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I was asked a few weeks ago about why Artificial Intelligence over the past few decades has been such a “failure”, meaning mostly that it isn’t seen to be living up to its great expectations.
James Gaskin at NetworkWorld gives a well-referenced response very similar to the one I gave back then, which went like this:
Essentially, [...]

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I normally don’t cross-link WPF articles unless super-excited because I figure all of us in the WPF-o-sphere are reading each other’s blogs.  But I was particularly interested on Rudi Grobler’s recent look into XAML obfuscation because I’ve encountered obfuscation issues from a couple of sides in a recent project, and look forward to hearing further [...]

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I’m excited to be launching a WPF training course through Toronto-based consultancy ObjectSharp. The course is called “Windows Presentation Foundation for Developers and Lead Designers,” and, as the title suggests, it offers a hands-on experience designed to give developers and lead designers the knowledge, background, tips and references they’ll need to build smart client [...]

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Some WPF Line-of-Business App follow-up after my presentation at DevTeach today:

Great Snippets: Great code snippets I have installed into my Visual Studio for WPF development are the Dr Wpf and Nerd+Art snippet packs.
WPF Coding Conventions: The coding guidelines I use for WPF are a riff on Paul Stovell’s XAML and WPF Coding Guidelines.
Application Quality Guide: [...]

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For my money, this Channel 9 Video is so impressive, I think this is the closest we’ve come to enabling a creative team to invent and then implement a futuristic interface like the ones imagined for blockbusters like Minority Report and Iron Man.*

* minus the holography bits. although maybe some awesome researcher could come up [...]

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Greg is in the middle of writing a great explanation of how to build custom WPF 3.5 SP1 pixel shader effects on his blog. He helped me re-create his sample ColorComplementEffect, so I thought I’d offer a sample solution containing an end-to-end custom WPF Pixel Shader Effect using the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta bits.
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A “Week of WPF” begins on Channel 9 with the announcement that the third major release of WPF (3.5 SP1) has gone beta!
Tim Sneath’s blog entry has fantastic detail about what’s coming in this release and all the download/update details (Silverlighters developing using 2.0 Beta: see caveat below).
Folks attending my “WPF for Line Of Business [...]

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I had been merrily using WPF’s built-in support for the Command Pattern for ages (see Commanding Overview, MSDN Docs, and article on implementing the command pattern in WPF, Jeff Druyt)… when suddenly it occured to me that I had no idea what triggered WPF to determine whether or not a command can be executed.
Let me [...]

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The WPF Performance Suite includes the following tools for profiling WPF applications at runtime:
Perforator: for analyzing rendering behavior.
Visual Profiler: for profiling the use of WPF services, such as layout and event handling, by elements in the visual tree.
Working Set Analyzer: for analyzing the working set characteristics of your application.
Event Trace: for analyzing events and generating [...]

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Mike Holmes is well on his way to being my new idol.
If you’re reading this from Canada, you know Mike: the contractor who arrives at botched renovation jobs and works his magic.
So why do I love this guy?
1. He knows everything there is to know about construction. He seems to have deep knowledge of [...]

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