Matt’s News / Blog

• I really like Orb for streaming music from my home PC. http://www.orb.com. #
• What kind of blog - micro-blog (ie Twitter) integration do you like? #

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• my legs are still sore from doing lunges on Tuesday — made it hard to run this morning. #

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• is happy that my work laptop now has 3 gigs of RAM. #

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• @alissewissman I’m jealous of chipotle for lunch… in reply to alissewissman #
• Had Portillo’s for lunch :). And it was free! #
• Started reading “Refactoring to Patterns” looks really good! #

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I know podcasting has been around for a few years now, but I haven’t really listened to any. Now, with my recent goal of running a half marathon, combined with a new set of head phones (that stay on while running) given to me for Christmas and an armband acquired from a liquidating chain technology store I am able to listen to podcasts. Right now, my favorite is Wait Wait Don’t Tell me.

Does anyone have any suggested Podcasts?

It’s official! I’m registered for the Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon. It’s August 2nd, so I have about 8 months to train. I better stop hitting the snooze button :/

Today I went downtown Chicago for the MSDN Developers Conference. I had a good time and learned some things. I was a little disappointed with the keynote. It was mainly about Cloud Computing and Windows Azure. I guess my main concern would be trusting Microsoft with your App and Data. I suppose it would be good for some situations.

C# 4.0 has some interesting features. I’m not really that super excited about optional parameters and dynamic types. Dynamic typing in C# makes it feel like JavaScript… shudder…

Silverlight 3.0 looks very nice. There are some nice things like built in navigation, authentication and validation. All things very noticeably missing from 2.0.

Finally, I liked the F# presentation (except it was more about why instead of how). I think it definitely has it’s place and I’d like to learn more about it. If it’s anything like Haskell I’ll enjoy it.

So this week wasn’t that great for my new years resolutions, mainly resolution #5. Since I kept pressing the snooze alarm, I didn’t achieve resolution #1, which could impact resolution #2.

The new fitness center at our apartment complex opened up this week. Hopefully, this will help resolution #1. It should be noted that they said it would be open this summer (yes, that’s was 5-6 months ago…)