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Monthly Archives: October 2005

  • Kitchen Appliances

    Here is the latest list of appliances we have settled upon for the new kitchenRefrigerator: Whirlpool GS6NBEXR in Satina. Main criteria: quality, look, and price. Purchased from Lowes. Cooktop: Kitchenaid KECD866RBL in Black. Main criteria: downdraft vent (our island will not have a range hood), quality, look and price. Purchased from Lowes. Oven: Thermador C302BS. Main criteria: qual...

  • Renovation Progress Update

    SubflooringA couple weekends back, my father in law and I put down a second layer of 5/8" tongue and groove fir subflooring plywood over the majority of the second floor. I had previously prepped the floor by hammering down all the protuding nails, screwing down some of the existing subfloor, removing the railings and generally cleaning up. Before that, Melissa had painstakenly r...

  • Can You Pass 8th Grade Math?

    I was surprised I got the questions correct, as I tended to get only the odd questions correct in my homework when I was in 8th grade ;-) You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

  • What Not to Display in an Error Message

    As part of my renovation, I'm getting ready to purchase a double wall oven. I figured I'd check out a few of the high-end models to see what they have above and beyond the usual consumer items like Whirlpool and Kitchenaid. The first site I hit was Thermador. When I clicked on a model there, this is what I got (click for full version): The only information that error message doesn't provid...

  • Part III of a Tour of XAML

    I mentioned Parts I and II of Chuck Jazdzewski's excellent A Tour of XAML here. A tour of XAML Part III is now available.

  • New Version of Acrylic Available

    A new version of Acrylic is now available. Microsoft Expression "Acrylic Graphic Designer" (code name) is a professional illustration, painting, and graphic design product. Visit the Acrylic Graphic Designer Features page for an overview of the main features. For more detailed information please view the videos which are also available on the Acrylic Graphic Designer site.

  • xamlCase

    The last couple days of the PDC were spent single-tracking through the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, formerly known as Avalon) and Microsoft Expression sessions. Later in the evening on Thursday, I spent a good chunk of time with Ian Ellison-Taylor and other folks from the Microsoft WPF team at the "Ask the Experts" session. My thanks to Ian for spending so much time discussing the...

  • Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

    MSDN Magazine online has a "Wicked Code" article on Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0. This is very cool, and promises to help us eek out that next bit of scalability from our large scale web applications. There's even a bit of helpful information for the folks who will be stuck with 1.1 for a little while longer. ASP.NET 2.0 is replete with new features ranging from declarative data binding...

  • DLinq code from Dinesh

    Dinesh has posted some sample DLinq code in his blog. I can't help but get a little excited whenever I see the line between persistent data and their design time class and runtime object representations blurred a bit further. Just over a week ago, we had a Microsoft MVP summit here in Redmond. It was great to meet with such a smart and energized group of people who really get what we do and ...

  • Model View ViewModel Pattern in WPF

    Introduction to the Model/View/ViewModel Pattern for Building WPF Apps Model/View/ViewModel is a variation of Model/View/Controller (MVC) that is tailored for modern UI development platforms where the View is the responsibility of a designer rather than a classic developer. The designer is generally a more graphical, artistic focused person, and does less classic coding than a traditional de...

  • Starting to Take Shape

    Today I finally got around to removing a chunk of the wall between the dining room/kitchen and the living room. This was the first major step in our kitchen and overall renovation.  For reference, here's the target elevation drawing which also shows a sample door, although there is not a door physically in that location in the room. (click to view a larger vers...

  • Building Permit

    On Wednesday 10/5 I sat around in the office at the Anne Arundel County Maryland Department of Licenses and Permits down in Annapolis. The permit process was pretty painless, but the wait was three hours.I needed a building permit for the following changesChanging the size of the opening in the non-bearing partition wallAdding new windows to an end wallAdding new windows to an exterior load-bea...