May 2006 - Posts
Managed to capture an image of the MEDC 2006 Tokyo attendees eagerly waiting for Mel Sampat to arrive at the conference center. - Mike
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I'm giving keynote demos at many of the MEDC world-wide events, this means that I'm building a Point of Sale terminal from the ground up in about 5 minutes - it's a super cool demo! In order to show the demo working I of course need some items to purchase
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Yesterday morning at 6am Loke and I arrived in Tokyo from Sydney/Australia - we headed for the hotel and then to the conference center to meet with translators, and have session and keynote rehearsals - we were back at the hotel at 9pm. This morning (Wednesday
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MEDC 2006 Japan was based at the Meguro Ga Jo En hotel - this is a really nice hotel and conference center. Interestingly some of the conference rooms appear to be named after Windows CE device codenames - for example Pegasus (HandHeld PC 1.0), Jupiter
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Steve Makofsky over at the FurryGoat Experience has some helpful hints/tips on how to get booting from a USB disk on key - Mike
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It's Tuesday May 30th, we're now in Tokyo getting ready for tomorrow's MEDC 2006 event. Loke and I left Sydney/Australia at 10pm last night, arrived in Tokyo at 6am this morning, then had a 90 minute bus ride to the hotel - arrived at the hotel just after
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MelSam has posted his first "Spot the Bug(s)" post on his blog - Looks like this is going to be an interesting blog for developers programming on the Windows Mobile platform. It can be easy to make simple programming mistakes on any platform, Mel is going
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Next stop on the MEDC World Tour is Tokyo - this is going to be a one day event keynoted by Michelle Freed (GM, Mobile Information Worker, Mobile and Embedded Devices group). Loke and I are delivering keynote demos and I'm also delivering a session covering
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MEDC Australia has been and gone, there were two tracks each covering four sessions - on the "Embedded" side of the house we had Windows CE 6 Kernel, Windows CE 6 tools, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS). Based on
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I'm sat in the eskybar at Sydney airport waiting for my Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo - we've arrived at the airport early expecting to check-in for the flight and drop bags, get through security and then sit in the Sydney Qantas Business Lounge
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Go check this out, this totally rocks! - Phidgets now have a Windows CE driver available - take a look at some of the existing projects using Phidgets . Phidgets Windows CE Driver Description: This package includes the phidget20 (C API) library, the Windows
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Mel Sampat, Program Manager in the Windows Mobile team has just launched a blog to discuss Windows Mobile Application Compat . Mel is also going to run a "Code Defect" contest from the blog. - Mike
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Melbourne, Australia, Thursday May 25th - Today we kicked off the the MEDC Australia event - during the keynote John Dietz, Director in the Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Devices group was seen dancing on stage, showing off his HTC StarTrek Smartphone
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It's 2:15pm, Wednesday 24th May, the day before the MEDC Australia event - We're in the Microsoft Melbourne office doing keynote rehearsals. Check out the amount of gear that I needed to bring with me from Seattle for the keynote! (bottom right of the
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Yesterday Loke, Andreas and I ordered some interesting drinks at the local Starbucks in Melbourne - Here's how Loke and Andreas looked after finishing their drinks. BTW, Microsoft Outlook has a really neat feature to set your Out of Office message (known
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Today, WindowsForDevices and Microsoft announced the Windows CE Shared Source Contest - Create a cool, real-world project that combines Windows CE along with either or both of two Shared Source components -- the Windows CE WebCam driver and/or the Windows
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You can find an interesting write up of Windows CE 6 on the Embedded Tech Journal Web Site . If you attended MEDC 2006 I'd be interested in hearing your feedback about Windows CE 6 operating system and tools changes. - Mike
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May 21st 2006, Sunday, 4pm, SeaTac Airport - This is how the MEDC 2006 International tour gets started, Loke and I sat in Starbucks at the Seattle airport asking the baristas to give us the longest coffee order they can think of – here’s the result… We
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Fernando Zandona has a description of the differences between Windows CE and Windows Mobile on his blog - might be useful if you are trying to determine the difference between the o/s and devices running the o/s. - Mike
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The MEDC international tour gets started this weekend with Loke Uei (Content owner for MEDC Las Vegas, and Windows Mobile developer type), Andreas Penna (Windows Embedded Compete) Doug Boling (Windows CE, great speaker, book author), Sean Liming (Windows
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MEDC 2006 Las Vegas is now over - at the end of the last day I spent time talking to attendees and speakers, everyone seems to agree that this years event had a really good feel to it, there was a definate buzz at the event, it "felt" busy. The announce
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If you are attending one of the MEDC 2006 events (there's a list of international events on the site) you will pick up a copy of the Windows CE 6 Beta - There are a host of changes between Windows CE 5 and the Windows CE 6 Beta, including supporting 32K
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Here's the next batch of MEDC 2006 Podcast Videos ( MEDC 2006 FeedBurner site and RSS feed ). In this drop we've added SumoRobot Competition (watch out for the interesting bathrooms at the end of the video!) Sue Loh (Developer, Windows CE Kernel) Pod
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A large volume of Windows CE Source code is currently accessible through the Windows CE Shared Source and Shared Source Premium programs (click here to learn more). You can use the Windows CE Source code as a documentation tool, as a debugging tool, but
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The Podcast crew have been busy at MEDC 2006 in Las Vegas - we have more content to come, here's some additional content we've added today. Here's how to get the content ( MEDC 2006 FeedBurner site and RSS feed ) Tour of the MEDC 2006 Hands On Labs Reactions
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The finalists for this years Windows Embedded Student Challenge have been announced - find out more information here . - Mike
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Here's a couple of shots from last nights SumoRobot competition, check out the view from the upper level within the TAO club - very cool. Here we can see one of the Podcast Crew getting up close with the camera and Sean Liming (blue hat) getting ready
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At most Microsoft events speakers keep track of their session scores using a whiteboard which is updated a couple of times a day - at this years MEDC 2006 event the session evals are all handled electronically, this means that speaker scores are available
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MEDC 2006: Wednesday May 10th, the attendee party was held at the TAO club within the Venetian Hotel - the main attraction at the party was the .NET MicroFramework SumoRobot competition - The winners of the competition was team ASU , who interestingly
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We have some more MEDC 2006 Podcast videos live - You can reach the videos on the MEDC 2006 FeedBurner site or through the RSS feed . Videos include... Behind the Scenes at MEDC 2006 Intro to the SumoRobot competition Interview with Colin Miller from
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Hey, check this out - someone snapped a photo of me giving an Apple demo at MEDC 2006! - Mike
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Tuesday May 9th 2006, today is the first 'official' day of the Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2006 - The day started with a keynote given by Pieter Knook (Senior VP, Microsoft) and Todd Warren (VP, Microsoft), and the demo monkeys, Dave Karle
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Today is Day One of MEDC, we have a number of Pre-Conference Tutorials running content covering Windows Mobile device deployment and management, Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Mobile application development. Last night we captured some images
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Today is MEDC Las Vegas day zero, the day before the pre-conference tutorials kick off - everything is looking good, registration is setup, keynote room is pretty much built, hands on lab, and instructor lead labs rooms look really cool. SumoRobots are
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Today we timed the MEDC 2006 Keynote demos, Loke was running the stopwatch (actually SpotWatch running a stopwatch) - I came in 2 minutes over, so need to trim a couple of things, should be ok - we still have another three rehearsals this week... Loke
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The Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) is coming to Australia on May 25th - here's the Event Web Site . I'm going to be covering the new Windows CE 6 tools, giving a walkthrough of the new developer experience, showing how to configure,
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With just one week to go before the start of MEDC 2006 there's plenty to look forward to - here's some thoughts (in no particular order). A look at the next release of Windows CE - plenty of sessions and labs! Keynote demos! Plenty of Sessions and Labs
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