I come from a country which has no army—as a matter of fact, yesterday we celebrated 59 army-less years—and although I’m against the violence that having an army usually implies, I have to admit that I admire military institutions. After all, many modern advances are unfortunately the result of research which at first was intended for war and I won’t deny that a couple of months of martial discipline wouldn’t be so bad for many of today’s youths.
(Disclaimer: although I’m all for constructive criticism most of the time, this is clearly nothing more than a rant, which by the way, does not even deserve translating.)
Lets start with a dictionary definition of the word seamless:
adjective. perfectly consistent and coherent
Now lets take a look at a quote from the website of a product I decided to work with while writing my book on WPF (highlight mine):
Back in January 2006, when Microsoft was preparing to release the .NET Framework 2.0 and, with it, the Windows Presentation Foundation, countdowns seemed to pop up everywhere:
Dazzling Graphics: Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation
This is the first in an irregular series of posts where I bring you nice surprises I’ve found while browsing the Internet.
I found today’s surprises in my RSS aggregator just waiting to be shared with the rest of the world*.
Both of today’s surprises come from totally different sources, but they do have one thing in common: innovation. Both concern technology that is not yet available, but that’s totally awesome.
There was one thing I loved about Seoul and it’s that, wherever you were, if there was a little green near you, there was music to be heard. Gyongbokgung was not an exception. Indeed, I actually got to see the artists behind the music and one of them was glad to perform before the camera:
This post is long due, but I guess since it doesn’t concern me I wasn’t in a hurry.
No, I’m just kidding. Of course, the most exciting moment of every competition is the announcement of the winners, so here they are, in case you are not interested in the official press release:
Software Design
First place: Thailand — Team 3KC Returns/Project LiveBook! Prachaya Phaisanwiphatpong, Vasan Chienmaneetaweesin, Jatupon Sukkasem, Pathompol Saeng-Uraiporn Second place: Korea — Team En#605/Project Finger Code Lim Chan-kyu, Min Kyoung-hoon, Lim Byoung-su, Jeong Ji-hyeon Third place: Jamaica — Team ICAD/Project CADI Imran Allie, Conroy Smith, Ayson Baxter, Damion Mitchell Embedded Development
Things moved so fast (or I was too slow) to write about the start of the 24-hour competition that took place from 14h GMT+9 on Monday 6th to 14h GMT+9 on Tuesday 7th.
The competition involved students from practically all categories, including mine: Interface Design.
Here are a couple of pictures I uploaded to Flick before starting:
The cubicles of all 6 Interface Design contestants.
This is our booth, before the competition started.
I’m in a plane heading to Seoul right now to participate in the finals of Imagine Cup 2007 and this will be the first of, hopefully, many posts covering the event. A couple of remarks: since I am a contestant and not a journalist, I will not have a lot of time for writing, so for a while all posts will be only in English (the text will be available on all three feeds, though); and since Internet access will apparently be difficult to come by with, I will probably be posting by batches when I get the chance to go online.
An interesting idea by the Imagine Cup team: map the locations of all teams on their way to Seoul this weekend for the Imagine Cup finals.
It would have been even better if they had asked us to actually locate ourselves on the map, because I’m sure nowhere near the south of France right now.
So, idea for next time: a mash-up using plazes and Virtual Earth, now that would have been cool…
Of course Intellisense is still there in Visual Studio 2008. If anything, it’s undergone several nice improvements.
For example, it has happened to me thousands of times and I bet it has happened to you too: you are writing code, the Intellisense window pops up. You appreciate that it’s there because you like how it helps you write code faster, but at that precise moment you’d really wish it would get out of the way so you could see the code that’s underneath.
