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Why Sync?

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 11:48 PM by MikeZintel

For several decades after the invention of the computer, the dominant constraint was processor cost. While mainframes had, in relative terms, impressive storage and local I/O capacity, they were primarily designed to do useful work on every clock cycle. Read More...

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Microsoft XNA Framework Referenced Here, Etc.

Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:47 AM by MikeZintel

Scott Holden mentioned that I didn't reference the Microsoft® XNA Framework® in my previous posts crawl this one too , thus missing out on the search engine action. Actually it was a secret test to gauge the degree to which search algorithms can infer Read More...

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It's Cool.

Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:14 PM by MikeZintel

I have a theory that everyone gets into software to write video games or build robots. Many discover that it's hard, they don't "got it", most of the paying jobs are for accounts payable systems and that rent costs money. I have another theory that photographers Read More...

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A Market Within A Market (was .NET in HD)

Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:37 AM by MikeZintel

In the late 90s, I worked on the IrDA infrared connectivity technology. My team built the protocol stacks that shipped with Windows CE and Windows 2000 and descendents, and I was an advocate of the technology within Microsoft. IrDA is a success. It continues Read More...

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It's a Completely Cool, Multi-Purpose Blog

Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:44 AM by MikeZintel

I recently watched, for about the 10th time, the movie True Stories . And, for about the 10th time, I started telling anyone around me who would listen about this great movie. I find it fascinating that different folks see different themes in the same Read More...

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The Proper Division of Labor in an Engineering Org

Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:35 AM by MikeZintel

My job: blogging. These folks: real work (ie setup, versioning, JIT, GC, loader, reflection, debugging, type system, interop, BCL, globalization, Windows Forms, DirectX, networking, crypto, ADO.NET, XML, etc). Mike. This posting is provided "AS IS" with Read More...

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QA Has Signed Off on .NET Compact Framework V2

Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:29 PM by MikeZintel

The .NET Compact Framework Quality Assurance Team signed off on V2 yesterday. We've been working on this for a long time and I'm excited to get this thing shipped. Soon. I'd like to share some insight into what we've been doing for the last 3 years, and Read More...

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WPF/e and the .NET Compact Framework

Posted Friday, September 23, 2005 12:12 AM by MikeZintel

I'd like to share some thoughts on integrating WPF/e, announced at the PDC, and the .NET Compact Framework. WPF/e is a C++, cross platform implementation of a subset of WPF (Avalon). It will be able to execute XAML, in addition to exposing dual mode COM Read More...

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Ignition System Envy

Posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 1:02 AM by MikeZintel

I'm pretty excited to try out my new toy, the Zintel-O-Tron 6 Channel Combination Model Rocket and Fireworks Ignition System . I built this thing on the weekend from parts I bought at the local Radio Shack. At least I was excited, until Mark Prentice, Read More...

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This is Not a Technical Post on the .NET Compact Framework

Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 4:28 PM by MikeZintel

I've been on vacation. If you're very lucky, you know a place that feels like it's the calm in the center of the universe. For me, Little River Lake , in White Rock , Nova Scotia is just such a place. We've spent time there every summer for about 20 years. Read More...

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Just Don't Do It

Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:48 AM by MikeZintel

I recently had the unenviable task of giving a presentation to the toughest of all audiences, Microsoft developers. These are folks who, during the agenda slide, generally ask questions about why the framework is so slow, big, ugly, etc etc. I typically Read More...

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From The Dept of Battlebots Built on .NET

Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:38 AM by MikeZintel

www.finalizer.net Mike. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Read More...

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MEDC 2005

Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:52 AM by MikeZintel

I'm a bit slower on my MEDC blog than my peers. I'm still using my trusty Nikon F3 while my peers have moved on to some newfangled thing called the "digital camera". I had to wait for a week for the film to come back before I could spend 3 evenings scanning Read More...

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Blogging Because I'm Not Speaking at MEDC

Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:26 PM by MikeZintel

Daniel Moth sent me a note telling me that he would be at MEDC (great news), and that he was looking forward to my "talk". I want to set expectations here. I'm on a panel. I'm taking my cue from Jonny Moseley on Warren Miller's Fifty , when he introduces Read More...

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From the Dept of Information Retrieval on .NET Compact Framework Network Performance

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:18 PM by MikeZintel

"How fast is the .NET Compact Framework?" I have only recently organized enough thoughts and words to be able to answer this question with something more useful than "it depends". The .NET Compact Framework, in the vast majority of cases, is fast enough. Read More...

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