Alright what's with the Chinese(?) characters? Friend of minie new to FF said he saw a bunch of these on his feed, no idea why.
- Mark Arend
from Alert Thingy
I'm the developer for http://www.fftogo.com/ and was just testing to make sure that unicode can be passed to it for sharing/commenting. If your friend is seeing Chinese on his feed then either a) he's subscribed to someone posting in Chinese b) he's on the public feed or c) he's being commented on by someone in Chinese
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, the dbcs shows fine on twhirl but on my blackberry using fftogo, it did not render properly
- Jon Erickson
from twhirl
Nothing I can do about that; sorry! Complain to blackberry. The font doesn't render on my phone (a Moto Q9c) either. I was just making sure that I could actually publish the unicode using fftogo.
- Benjamin Golub
On a SK3, I get some of the characters but not all of them. Oh well, better than nothing eh?
- Phil G
from fftogo
hi, I could use some guidance. I can't seem to get cjson.decode to handle chinese characters correctly. The incoming string contains "fullname":"bford $#&!?@ 徳力基彦" , and cjson.decode spits it out as "bford $#&!?@ \u00e5\u00be\u00b3\u00e5\u008a\u009b\u00e5\u009f\u00ba\u00e5\u00bd\u00a6" . How do I get it back in the correct form when I want to see it as Chinese again?
- bford $#!?@ 徳力基彦
Yeah, delicious looks better now. I'm going to try Diig but it looks like overkill for the bookmarking/tagging that I want to focus on.
- Mark Arend
Digg is really cool, but it's not a social bookmarking site. Digg is: people submit news items (or photos or videos), community memebers digg up or digg down, and the most popular appear first on the site. And of course, the competition for the funniest comment on the story never ends. (Comments are dugg up/down too.)
- Wade Rothermel
Actually, http://www.diigo.com is what LLiu had mentioned, I was misspelling from memory. Too Many Web Two Point Ohs!
- Mark Arend
Anyone else taking certification exams? I know most of those in this room are TechReady "vets" but I love this as a perk. The study resources have been pretty helpful too.
Tried 70-631 (WSS Admin) pretty much cold, after an hour overview from one of the MCTs at the study area. Got 676, missed questions that I would've known had I been an infrastructure guy.
- Paul Whitaker
yep... going for 70-630 and 70-542 today. Schedule worked out because not too many IW sessions of interest to me today. I have to cut out of keynote a bit early, I hope they don't arrest me!
- Mark Arend
from fftogo
Passed my 2 MOSS cert exams... got ONE WRONG on the Admin (70-630). Got quite a few more wrong on the AppDev (70-542) because it was so heavy on enterprise-licensed features (BDC, IPFS, ECS) which my customers don't use.
- Mark Arend
from fftogo
nice, congrats Mark. I knocked out 70-630 and 70-631 today, doing 70-536 on Friday.
- Paul Whitaker
from fftogo
Paul, that's excellent, I'm glad you conquered the 631. Congratulations! What's the 536?
- Mark Arend
from fftogo
Thanks Mark. 536 is the .net framework exam. I am signed up for 542 tomorrow as well. Need to get some study time in this afternoon. :)
- Paul Whitaker
from fftogo
Kristian, so far, so so-so. Two great sessions, one very not great, plus eval system's reliability seems to be like about 20% Anyway... invite any other MS people to this room that you know are at TR7! Thanks!! Mark
- Mark Arend
kristian, gl on your preso!!! i was looking into moss/competitive situations anyway, so it great to see you here. :D
- Chris Hollander
this is how we do it ;) om nama shivaya!!!
- Mario Olckers
Man, that track is SMOKIN! I love the little silences, and the longer spoken part... really gets you craving the "tonic" and when it comes back full on, oh, man, I don't even want to say. Very satisfying.
- Mark Arend
@Yuvi - It is tech in many ways, but I don't focus on that aspect.
- Russellreno
As I remember everyone else I'm subscribed to that shares interesting stuff that isn't social media, I'll add them. Those are just the people who jumped into my feed so far this morning.
- Mark Trapp
Oh, well crap. Did you only want science people? All the people I listed have eclectic tastes, and I don't think any of them are in a science field.
- Mark Trapp
@Mark: Nohs, not just Science people :) Just non-techy....
- Yuvi
Yuvi, ah okay. Yeah, these awesome people will give you a feed of non-tech gold, and let you discover other like-minded people.
- Mark Trapp
Great question Yuvi! It's nice to see a list of these people.
- Mitchell Tsai
There are more out there though. Just need to be found....
- Yuvi
You're right: I think I only listed about 30% of the people I'm following who aren't invested in the tech sphere, and I'm not following very many people at all. I just have work to do! Everyone mentioned in here will share their friends-of-friends, so you'll at least be in a good starting position.
- Mark Trapp
I like to post links about tacos. Tacos and mad scientists. They're awesome.
- sergiooo
Sergioooo's avatar left me kinda speechless...
- Yuvi
Yeah, I rarely post about tech-oriented stuff. In fact, most of my stuff is just goofy. It's going to get more goofy so look out. LOOK OUT.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Phutureprimitive is the refreshing musical creation of Oregon-based DJ/Producer, Rain. The Phutureprimitive sound is subterranean electronic tribalism, combining elements of organic downtempo, ethnic breaks, and sensual atmospherics. Ethereal vocals soar over dubbed-out basslines, and live percussion unfolds over odd time signatures creating a groove that is influenced by the synthetic textures of psychedelic trance as well as the kinetic grooves of world music.
- Mark Arend
State of Trance by Armin van Buuren, Nocturnal by Matt Darey are both pretty consistently excellent in my opinion. I like the different formats: Armin is 20-30 minutes, Matt is 90-120 minutes, so I can choose. Just started poking around more; found another one I like a lot: TranceCast by DJ eBam. I found all these on zune.net, haven't branched out to other podcast sites yet... please share favs if you have 'em!
- Mark Arend
Oh, I also REALLY like the IndeFeed podcasts... they come in several genres including Electronica: http://blindingflashes.blogs.com/indiefe... These are podcasts of individual songs, with LOTS of information about the song and artist.
- Mark Arend
Ooh, hottrance.com, thanks for the heads-up! I had not seen this site before and look forward to exploring it. Looks like lots of good stuff here, thanks Jonathon!
- Mark Arend
Do you mean all the Social Networking sites? I'm surprised not to have seen much discussion about open source in relation to this... surely many of these sites are GNU modeled.
- Mark Arend
This is what my lost blog was about. Among many other things, FireFox 3 is very impressive. Will explain more later...
- Wade Rothermel
Master page / stylesheets are horrendously complicated looking and scared our web designers so much they wouldn't touch it and we had to do it ourselves. ;-) Definitely some improvements to be made there. And buy Telerik editor and put that in the CMS editor instead of that clunky one that ships out of the box. Would be a killer then.
- Pete Gilbert
Simplified admin interface. The Central Admin site has so many things stashed in so many places (search admin is so convoluted!), its next to impossible to keep everything straight. Not to mention the other items that you have to find in the Site Settings for a site collection.
- John Ferringer
"single RSS from an entire site" - Angi, NewsGator's Social Sites currently provides that. :-) You can also try a free open source tool at http://www.codeplex.com/SPRSS.
- Lawrence Liu
SPRSS: nice - thanks LLiu, you are always a fount of information.
- Angi Lundy
ditto on the synchronous collaboration on a doc. I wanna see word/excel/ppt completely interactive.
- Jeff DeVerter
Only one? How 'bout a few. Make rolling-up information from multiple sites easier. CQWP was a great start on this, but it needs to be so much more. I know, CorasWorks has great solutions in this area, and relying on partners to provide some "advanced" functions is a solid strategy. But I think this should be more of a core capability. How about make RSS reader work without requiring...
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- Mark Arend
All templates should be changed from a <table>-based to a <div>-based layout with well structured and clean sytesheets (there's a lot more but this is the first that came up to my mind)
- Urs Bertschy
Well if you're going for more than 1 feature, a good exercise is ¨if you had $100 to spend...¨ 1$ on 100 features vs $100 on 1. I used this approach in my ol' MS days :-) great way of getting a customer down to 3 things they most want to see in a product and the money split indicates how big a difference there is between each feature that makes the final cut
- Joining Dots
BTW, my one thing? Classification, preferably with Auto- in there too. SharePoint had it in the past and lost it due to perf issues. Would be great to see it come back, without needing to begin with F and end in T.
- Joining Dots
“Best concerts ever attended: Underworld (x2), Depeche Mode (x2), DJ Tiesto (x2), Crystal Method, Moby, Chemical Bros., Paul Oakenfold, ATB, Radiohead... and you?” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Snort... I wish! Depeche Mode? Interesting how some bands reinventing... I used to love Enigma years ago (Cross of Changes is great) then nothing from them in a while; now it looks like they have some great new stuff. anyone else love the great concerts like Louis?
- Mark Arend
from fftogo
NIN hershey, Fatboy Slim Atlanta, Van Halen Hershey, TMBG Lancaster, Yngvie Malmstien Harrisburg, Yes, hershey, Radiohead Philly, Decemberists LA... definitely my favs.
- Wade Rothermel
I remember you talking about this... don't hear that signature 360-degree phase effect much anymore that the 303 was so good at producing. I even miss it... why was that effect so satisfying? Weird.
- Mark Arend
It's so satisfying mainly because it's 2 things. First - simple to program and just a few knobs to tweak. But I think more importantly because it is kind of the quinessential break from TONE to other parameters of a sound that can be modified to form a composition. The tones all repeat within a measure or two. The journey is resonance, cutoff, filter envelope etc. Nothing new of course...
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- Wade Rothermel
Google knows how to charm users, the way Microsoft used to when it's stock looked like Google's. Coincidence? And what's the FriendFeed connection?
- Mark Arend
Google knows how to charm users, the way Microsoft used to when it's stock looked like Google's. Coincidence? And what's the FriendFeed connection?
- Mark Arend
I do... I used to listen to it lots when working out when I only had a handful of trance CDs. Never had quite enough extra cash to keep the CD collection going once the kids started rolling in! HA hahahaha. Now I have my Zune (Tranceport's ripped to it) and Last.fm, and I know there are so many other sources of good free tunage. Just found this was his debut CD, so it's even more special now. 8^D
- Mark Arend
I am not sure if I really like it. I need to have an app to work with it perhaps, Twitter is simpler though as conversations are in place. With Plurk it is all over the timeline.
- 2commonsense
It's.....interesting, but i'm not sure if the features it adds to the microblogging experience will be enough to sustain it in the long term. We'll see.
- Iain Baker
I've been trying Plurk, trying to reserve judgment, but it just seems goofy. Interesting to place so much emphasis on the clique, driven by karma=activity and rewarded by visible improvements--like a teenager's wardrobe. So lots of process to drive the social interaction, but it feels very artificial and limiting, like I have to do just the right things to get accepted. I guess it's targeted to a younger demo?
- Mark Arend
not yet, but the ppl volume is there already which is a big help
- Duncan Riley
Well, I'd say you really like electronica and trance... 2500 songs of these genres in your library alone! Your "5 star rating" playlist is a cool way for me to see what you really like... your recommendatoins in effect.
- Mark Arend