Google's .NET API

I have been playing around some with the Google API's in preparing for my Code Camp presentation.  These are a interesting set of API's that wrap the rest protocols that Google uses.

I was actually able to recompile them completely into .NET 3.5 libraries, however LINQ and some other things don't work well with them.  I had to create a second set of Generic classes that I could use for syncing to out look.  All and all this was not difficult though and provided some good insights.  You will hear more about this in my code camp presentation.

Try again

Ok, even I could not read the blog with that color scheme. Back to a more standard one. I guess not everything looks good in Crimson and Grey.

WSU Basketball

I found this cool little gadget (at the bottom of the page) that tracks the WSU Basketball and Football Teams. I also redid the color scheme to more crimson and grey.

Hopefully it is not too hard to read.

Go Cougs!

Found this on MySpace

My friend Christian had this on his myspace page.  I guess Spiderman is the best you get to a really geeky superhero.

It is fun and a bit silly. :-). 

Your results:

You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 90% Green Lantern 90% Superman 55% Robin 55% Hulk 55% The Flash 50% Catwoman 50% Supergirl 40% Iron Man 30% Batman 20% Wonder Woman 20%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Harvey

I went to see the play Harvey on Thurs. It was put on by a community theater here in Caldwell. The lead actor was execellent. I have seen him do Jekyl and Hyde on stage in Boise and he is always a treat. The rest of the cast was Ok, but it is tough when you have someone like Gregg Irwin in the lead. It makes it that much harder for everyone else on stage to look good.
I went with Kim and Kevin. We went to dinner and then went to the play. It had just started to snow and it snowed on us all night. I hate snow. I hate driving in snow. I do, however always have a good time with Kim and Kevin.
BTW: Kevin happy birthday. If I would have know I would have bought dinner and the play tickets instead of just dinner.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

For those of you who might have missed the announcement Microsoft has made the source of the .NET Framework available.  It is released under a reference license, so do not expect to go create your own version, however if you ever wanted to step debug into the .NET framework code you can now.

You must have Visual Studio Professional 2008 for this to work, but then we all got that at the InstallFest last month, didn't we?  Detailed instructions for adding the symbols is available here.

It even works on my 64 bit workstations (pay close attention to the note on the qfe download for 64 bit). 

Pretty Cool...

A 832 GB Flash drive

This was just announced at CES, a 832 GB Flash drive. I am sure it is a bit pricey for now but is this the future of hard drives? Since they can be of almost any size I guess it is a question of how cheap the memory gets. It would be bizarre if the was signaling the end of the old hard drives.

The hard ware aspects of computers continues to astound. Multi-core processors with Gigabytes (maybe even terabytes) of memory, fiber optic Internet connections to the home, Multi-gigabyte solid state drives and computers with built in high speed cellular modems (I get 1.5 Mbits on my Verizion modem on a cellular net).

The amazing power and capabilities of the machines that will be built in the next few years never ceases to amaze me. Developing software for these systems in the next 10 years is going to provide a incredible challenge for software developers.

I guess all you can do is get in hang on and enjoy the ride. It will be an interesting ride for the next few years.