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Re: http://xcud.com/ben/1697

xcud — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:17:16 -0000

I'm not sure I want to give up control of my comments just yet ...

Re: not a blog

xcud — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:24:43 -0000

Hey look ... tumblr + disqus = blog

Re: it's official

xcud — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:35:39 -0000

Absolutely. Let's carve out some time in the first two weeks. I want to get you caught up. There's been a massive upgrade in the target functionality of the Pipes concept since the last time I briefed you on what I wanted to do. Think complete programmatic control over the data in between retrieval and push. Combines, filters, loops, conditionals; there's nothing out of bounds. Complete control using visual controls AND/OR code-behind. It's like the difference between just a windowed OS and a windowed OS with a shell. On top of that there will be at least one other pillar of product development focus that I haven't begun talking about yet.

Re: Karen's Quilt - A new site for Karen’s Quilt. For those in the...

xcud — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:30:23 -0000

Thanks so much for understanding. Between yours and a few other blogs I've poured in 3 or 4 hours of coding time trying to get blogging up on the new server when I'd really rather be diving deeply into building the new product line for the as of yet unnamed startup.

Re: it's official

xcud — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:27:27 -0000

Thanks Matt. I do too. As does my new biz partner. We'll be pouring in whatever it takes in terms of resources to get it Enterprise-ready and bring it to market. I'll get a screensharing session going in the first two weeks to catch you and Anger up on some of the big changes in the app.

Re: Karen's Quilt - A new site for Karen’s Quilt. For those in the...

xcud — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:15:30 -0000

The game was 'Castle'. More info and screenshots here.

Re: 9:00pm

xcud — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:49:58 -0000

Drew has picked another rock-themed location for our next road trip :)

Re: Saint Louis Bloggers

xcud — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:34:51 -0000

test

Re: Saint Louis Bloggers

xcud — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:59:21 -0000

Thanks for that Kathy. The pinger is back online now. Everything has finally been moved to a more permanent server which will get plenty of attention when it goes down. I can start fixing these bugs -- stllboggers cookies, twitter bot, etc -- with the knowledge that any work I do won't be lost.

Re: they came from the chimney

xcud — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:31:39 -0000

It was nightmarish. I didn't want to kill all of those wasps. There just weren't any good alternatives handy. I haven't decided whether or not to take/post a picture of the bottom of the fireplace.

Re: Hugh & Bot

xcud — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:32:44 -0000

Er ... who's the owner of the bare midrift?

Re: Hugh & Bot

xcud — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:06:30 -0000

Oh hey. I noticed that I'd forgotten to bring the hughandbot.com site back up when I moved to the new server. Sorry about that. It's back up now.

Re: It's 10:37pm

xcud — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:57:30 -0000

Huffington's people took video/pictures in the greenroom before the show: link

Re: Merry Christmas!

xcud — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:25:28 -0000

New rule. The dress code for Christmas day dinners at our house is PJ's. It's official. Really.

Re: Saint Louis Bloggers

xcud — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:20:58 -0000

I see your ping in the sidebar and in twitter ...

Re: U-verse

xcud — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:06:38 -0000

ATT came by and did something to the line coming into our house last week. I've got my fingers cross that they are prepping our neighborhood for fiber/UVerse.

Re: U-verse

xcud — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:12:59 -0000

Essentially it's TV and Phone over the Internet. They run the data over a fiberoptic line to your home. Theoretical speeds in the 25MB/s range. Most of the bandwidth is reserved for TV. The phone and web surfing don't take up much most of the time. https://uverse.att.com/

Re: The Developer Is In

xcud — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:02:01 -0000

By soon, of course, I mean the month of May ...

Re: Life Among The Savages - Another 2 miles. That makes 12.5 Stop in a...

xcud — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:17:24 -0000

She got right on that.

Re: PowerCLI Stack

xcud — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:46:54 -0000

Firstly, you're absolutely correct that the VMWare Community Forums are excellent. The experts there are brilliant and responsive.

The question is, "what's the advantage of a site like StackOverflow over the existing forums?".

The forum user experience was designed from the ground up to facilitate conversation. This is evident in any VMWare Community forum thread (e.g. http://communities.vmware.c.... It's a threaded conversation which starts with a question, one or more people engage the questioner, a conversation happens, an answer is eventually formulated and accepted, then the questioner thanks the answerer. Reputation points awarded by a questioner to the winning answer and helpful answers. The paradigm of awarding points for answers is bolted onto the forum system. It's a very cool feature and more importantly it establishes a marketplace where the goods are questions and answers and the currency is reputation.

From what I can tell the StackOverflow sites were designed from the ground up to facilitate this paradigm/marketplace. This is evident on any StackOverflow thread (http://stackoverflow.com/qu.... It starts with a single person posing a question. Almost instantly 10s (or sometimes 100s) of people simultaneously engage the questioner either by submitting their own answer to compete in the marketplace of answers or by voting on existing answers, comments, and even the question itself. In addition to streamlining the Q&A marketplace the stack sites have done other things smartly like fully implementing tagging to make filtering easier and allow for easier search engine indexing, providing a rich set of earnable 'badges' and reputation awards, and leveraging OpenID for authentication (think single sign-on for the Internet).

Re: Teaser - PowerWF Embedded Shell

xcud — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:24:45 -0000

The swipe text -> import is working now. It's very cool.

We'll put out a build with this feature plugged in sometime this week (sooner rather than later).

Re: Teaser - PowerWF Embedded Shell

xcud — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:27:10 -0000

We released it. Here's the link: http://blog.powerwf.com/pos...

Re: PowerWF - I’m very excited to demo this new feature for you....

xcud — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:06:35 -0000

We're on track to release this build early next week. Once this feature was running well in our labs (early this week) I thought it was worth sharing in a teaser screencast.

Re: xcud - MSChart in Psh

xcud — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:25:10 -0000

From the blog entry;

Edit the lib and edit the input param list in the function “New-Chart” from this:

param ([int]$width,[int]$height,[int]$left,[int]$top,$chartTitle)

To this:

param ([int]$width,[int]$height,[int]$left,[int]$top,[string]$chartTitle)

Voila. Re-import the module and the error is gone.

Re: http://xcud.com/post/544524965

xcud — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:29:29 -0000

I couldn't really ask for a better reception for the product. Here's a screencast of the big-impact demo I gave: http://bit.ly/9XzMpL