Yap! That pissed me off! :-/
Jeff Sanders (MSFT) replied ~
You are not missing anything. In the Preview, it only supports jscript/html5. If you create a new C# application in Visual Studio Express 2011 you will get a XAML editor. You can still edit XAML in Version 4 if you want to install that for now.
Margin Call is one of my favourite moves that I watched in 2011. This movie is about the group of people from large investment firm and what they did in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
I like what John Tuld said in the movie. He said there are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.
I watched it a couple of months back but when he said came across in my mind when I was checking out one site yesterday. Their product is a UX framework that helps developers to create the metro style “web” application. The UI of their website is very clean and well-structured. I was amazed by the beauty of their website and demo application for a few minutes. I would say that they are one of very first few companies that brought the metro concept to the web and mobiles. By looking at the way that they created their website, demo and framework, and the feedback that I found on twitter, they are very smart people who managed to execute the plan that has a lot of potentials.
but be first and be smarter are not good enough for them so they added something so called marketing trick in their site. I know every side has two stories and you may not call it as a cheating but to me, what they did is dishonest so I called it “cheating”
They asked you to login with Facebook to download the icon collections or framework. I liked their work and I understand that there are some companies that don’t want to implement their own authentication system so they just use Facebook’s Oauth for authorization. I also understand that they will be able to access my private information like email, address or etc.. Anyway, I trusted them so I logged in with my Facebook account and gained them access in order to download their framework.
Do you know what I got? They asked me to have 20 points that I need to spend around 35$ to buy it. I was like WTF! Why don’t you tell me in the first place? I know we all want to get rich and want to make money. $35 is a reasonable price. Me and my company is looking at HTML 5, metro concept for our web application as well. I can put my company to buy for team if your framework is really good even I don’t buy it on my own. We bought license from Infragistic, Telerik and a few others in this way as well.
What pissed me off is NOT about asking money. Why can’t you just honestly tell me in the first place before I gain you access to my Facebook profile?
You guys are very talented but I believe that there is at least one person who wants to cheat other people under the name of “money” or “marketing trick”. Anyway, Good luck but be careful.
The routable section is an event ogranized by Microsoft Singapore for MVPs, User Group leaders and Microsoft DPE team to meet up and discuss anything from chitchat to serious discussion once in every four months. (Nope, Not this one “Microsoft RoundTable” ). We used to gather at bar in town and Microsoft provides us free flow of drinks and foods (This is where you can order drinks in sequential order from menu. ^^ )
We had a roundtable section last week and it was awesome. I had good discussion with Hammad regarding Windows 8 and tablets. I’m looking forward to hear more from him soon.
Thanks to Clarisse Ng (my MVP lead) for organizing this event.
It’s true! Digg hates me. We were friends a few years back. The bloggers around the world submit the awesome links to you and you helps us to give some traffic for our blog. It is win-win situation for both sides. I didn’t know that things has been changed until I submit one of my posts to that site today.
I got this error below as soon as I enter my link in yours. Look at the screenshot. How bad is that? Your development team didn’t create the overlay message properly and your QA failed to find out about it.
I’m sure you can’t even read your own message so I posted the text below.
Stop right there criminal scum!
This page may be a forgery or imitation of another website, designed to trick users into sharing personal or financial information. Entering any personal information on this page may result in identity theft or other abuse
It’s not the first time that you treat my site like a spam site, Digg! I will show you the email history that I and your support team had a couple of months back.
Digg Support – Nov 18
Hello mchlsync,
We use the Google Safe Browsing API to help prevent spam and malware from getting submitted to Digg.com. It appears that Google has flagged that domain. For more information please check the link provided below:
http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/
I went to Google Web Master tool and checked my site. I found no issue, Digg!
I replied to your support with this screenshot.
Digg support team – Nov 19~
Hello,
We’ve contacted our development team who are investigating the issue, and will fix it as soon as possible. Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any further questions.
For more information, please see Digg’s FAQ section (http://about.digg.com/faq).
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After a few hours on the same day, they asked me to try again.
Try again now, it should work. Let us know if you’re still having problems
When I checked it again, I found that the issue has been fixed.
But today, the issue show up again. I’m not sure how you guys are handling the regression issue but it’s not cool if this issue keep on coming back again and again.
So Digg! do something about it!
Some of you know that my blog was under attack a few months back. I started taking care of my blog’s security as much as I can since then. One of the things that I did is that I installed WP-Malwatch to scan the suspicious activities on my blog everyday. That plugin is kinda useful tho.
I received a notification from that plugin saying that it’s suspecting some viruses on my blog this morning so I quickly logged in and scanned my current template manually on dashboard. I found one new file called backwp.php inside the theme folder.
I’m guessing that it might be the back-up file of Twently Eleven them but I couldn’t find any information from theme download page so I posted a question about that file on forum and am still waiting for the answer. Let me know if you have any idea about this file. For the time being, I deleted this file and tested my blog. It’s still working. I think that it’s very safe to delete that file.
Another weird thing which is happening since I started using “Twently Eleven” theme is that I’m getting this error often when I’m playing around in dashboard area. I tried contacting with people behind this theme and no reply from them.
This theme is awesome and it was created by the official wordpress.com team but after using it for a while, I realized that this theme comes with quite a few problem as well.. Maybe, it’s time for me to look for new theme..
My interview on Codeproject is out.. :) You can read there “A Coder Interview With Michael Sync”.. :)
