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11月21日

XAML Power Toy

 
Holy cow, this guy is genius. He cooked up a XAML Power Toy in few days. And so far, the tool looks amazing. The power toy generates WPF form for you. Instead of drag and drop the controls, you drag and drop the display data. Similar to SalesForce form designer or some good highly customizable business systems. The Grid modifier along saves WPF developer tons of hassle. That's not all, turning read only Grid into two way binding Grid in a minute is amazing.
 
He works at MS. A chubby geeky looking guy with a lot of tattoos on his arm. He is certainly interesting. I hope this power toy will be popular enough to make it into the core of Visual Studio.
 
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11月18日

Draco the Chow Chow

This one is really cute. Gotta keep this one in my blog.
 
 
 

Real-life Furbys rediscovered

LOL Real Furby is found. Here is the link
 
He is missing the ears, but he does look like Furby. Of course, it is not programed to do what Furby can do.
 
11月7日

2008 SEMA Show Photos

2008 SEMA show is here. Take a look on those drooling tricked out cars. But first, you will be forced to go through all my boring private pictures. Don't skip them.

   
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Feeling Betrayed. 70% Blacks voted Yes on prop8.

 
When the world celebrate US first black president as racial equality, I don't feel any relief or happiness at all. As a Californian, presidential election is nothing special for us. CA is always a Democrat state that holds one of the largest electoral vote in US. This election is much more important on Proposition 8. Proposition 8 bans legalization of gay marriage that was passed recently. Just like blacks, gay people constantly struggle for equal right. President Obama, Governor Schwarzenegger, California Teachers Association, and more oppose proposition 8.  For more detail, read here http://www.noonprop8.com/about/who-opposes-prop-8
 
Why I felt betrayed? Based on CNN result, 70% of African American voted Yes on Prop8 while other races are a lot more balanced. If they are more open minded about marriage, we could really have that 4% we really needed for. Yeah sure, racial equality, I supported that. What do I get in return? A knife stab in the back. Equality??? What an illusion. I respect others' opinion. But, 70%??? No, I cannot sit back and accept that.
 
Black votes Obama for what? Just for black, nothing more. Obama says no on Prop8 and most black don't listen. If you ask me, this is a racial war instead. Why I vote Obama? I vote him because I read his economy plans and I believe he can bring work force back to US. I believe his vision. But what exactly blacks vote him for? How much do they know about Obama's policies? I doubt they even care.
 
Now, who am I? I am gay myself. Go figures. If I can't get married in CA, I can do that else where. I don't see myself getting married anytime soon either. Most homosexual marriage are lesbians, not gays anyway. And that stupid argument about family; A father, mother, and a child? Seriously, I am not going to have kids anyway. How about one mother and one child instead since a lot of American families are like this. What's family? Many people treat their pet as part of their family and we should think that's wrong? That's just absurd. Then, there is an argument about marry to an animal as next step. Sure, how about marry to a bug while they are at it. And oops, I stepped on his lady bug. Would I be charged as murdering his wife since I stepped on his bug?
 
Anyway. I felt the same injustice that blacks felt before. But, what makes me angry is that they sought for equality while rejecting my equality. Yeah sure, we have black president now. But, when are blacks going to treat other people equally?
11月3日

Windows 7, the new taskbar.

Here is a long official presentation video. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC24/
 
One of the key changes in Windows 7 is the taskbar. For some people it looks similar to Mac OSX object dock, but it is very different. Here is an overview of that it evolves.
  1. No more enable/disable quick launch bar. It is always active.
  2. Task Group is moved to quick launch icon. Fairly similar to Mac OSX.
  3. A launch icon that has open windows has special Hot Track color background. Just subtle simple eye candy.
  4. Click on already launched icon will switch to the already opened window.
  5. Right Click give you Jump List. A customizable list that can be anything. Like recently opened, IE history, messenger actions, and more.
  6. Task Group has real time thumbnail previews (same mouse hover).
  7. Interactive Thumbnail previews. It is like mini window. It has App Icon, Title, Close Button, and fully customizable buttons. For example, WMP has play music control, thus, you can control WMP without switching window. It works like WMP toolbar/taskband/deskband, but not taking up additional spaces.
  8. And now, the most important feature since Task Group Feature is mandatory. "Peek". Do you remember annoying mouse clicks on task group and windows, and find yourself switch to the wrong one and have to do it again? This is the main reason I don't use Task Group since XP. Now, Peek is a very simple design, and it works extremely well IMO. When you hover mouse on task group, you get a list of thumbnails as stated on #4. You can see the thumbnail and the title for info, but what if it is not enough? Like Word documents are useless with thumbnail. Move your mouse on previews, Peek will "temporarily" bring up the window. A great way to see your window before doing the actual window switch. Or maybe you just want to see it without switching from the first place.

The new taskbar is the consolidation of Win98 Quick Launch Bar, XP Task Group, Vista Thumb Preview, and new important features like Peek, Interactive Thumbnail, and Jump List. Windows 7's improved taskbar is an attractive feature that many people will come to enjoy.

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