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a while back hanselman blogged about email signature etiquette..and i found it somewhat amusing what people put on the email signature.  scott posted mine, which i try to keep very limited.  today, i got an email inquiry about sharepoint...and i noticed it had a "header" -- which i found amusing :-)

here it is:

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i just got a kick of the classification and caveat headers.  so if it was classified...would the entire email have been redacted?

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i have to say, i'm really excited about this...for a while now i've been talking to customers and communities about wpf and expression blend.  i have to admit though, i'm not a designer, not even a good novice designer :-).  but i "get" expression blend -- the framework is much simpler for me to understand as a novice...and when i see experts open the tool i'm amazed at how quick they understand it and begin to create some compelling visuals/applications.

Expression Blend Traininganywhoo, there is a roadtrip happening...expression blend near you!  so check out the city list and register.  you'll learn some really helpful tips on getting onramped quickly for wpf and expression blend.  very cool stuff.  visit the expression 'designing experiences with expression blend' site for details on cities near you.

 

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...and missing the CAML love?  you got so used to the template structure for sharepoint 2003 didn't you :-)  take a look at some information to help you understand if you don't know much about master pages (the ASP.NET template framework that sharepoint...err...um...sorry, MOSS uses now) this is a good primer especially if you are using sharepoint designer to manage your sharepoint site.

when you visit the sharepoint designer tutorial link you'll see information about:

    • introduction to asp.net master pages
    • modify the default master page
    • modify the default sharepoint content placeholders
    • create a content page from a master page
    • track customized master pages
    • change the current master page

again, it is a good primer for master pages with regard to sharepoint...

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okay, so the title doesn't do it justice...i was trying to mimic in writing the "ea sports...it's in the game" tagline that starts each EA sports game on the xbox (and presummably other consoles)...whenever my daughter hears that she interrupts with "it's in the game" -- pretty funny (and sad at the same time i suppose).

but i digress...

anyhow, i just picked up a copy of tiger woods 07 recently and finally loaded it up last night (argh: still no xbox live league game setup!).  when i loaded it up i disregarded the background talking until i realized that it actually was live updating sports information -- they were talking about what was happening at that moment in the master's golf tournament...and then on to other sports scores like baseball games of the day, etc.  WOW!  that is a great idea...then i noticed an espn on demand section where it also could read recent sports headlines form espn.  brilliant.  great job ea sports on improving my peripheral experience on the game console!

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i've been trying to learn more and more about and the current functionality in the february ctp, so i decided to jump on the create-a-video-player-skin bandwagon and mock something up.

i thought it would be quite the incredible thing (read: couldn't think of a better idea) to show a player...so whoala:

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and when you click 'start player' (yes i know it would be cool to show the player as a playlist and use the normal zune buttons, but c'mon, v.0.0.3 here...work with me people) it rotates to show you the video (if you don't own a zune, the player shows videos landscape rather than portrait).

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anyhow, i'm hoping to evolve this a bit more when i have some more free time -- there is a small bug in the stream downloading calculations that i'm hunting right now.  in case you haven't seen the default video playing, it is the red vs. blue of here's the link to my zune miniplayer.