Archives for 2004

CopySourceAsHtml - Visual Studio 2003 plugin

Nov 9, 2004

Ever wanted to copy paste some code from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to your blog tool (e.g. Sauce Reader) and keep the colorization ? Here is the solution, CopySourceAsHtml, an awesome plugin from Colin Coller. The cool point is that if "<em>VS.NET can highlight it, CSAH can copy it, and your code should look the same in your browser as it does in your editor</em>". I was a bit disappointed not finding the context menu in the editor for other source then C# but you might add a keyboard shortcups as described on this page.

Even better, Colin provides the source. I guess I will soon integrate his colorization way to Tech Head Brothers Word 2003 publishing tool.

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I always thought that journalist must be impartial

Nov 8, 2004

Is that not true for sport journalist ? Canal+ showed this evening the football match Paris SG - Olympique de Marseille, and the journalists were really NOT impartial. That really piss me off, because I am paying an abo to get this private channel and when I see such attitude... It is even worse when you know that Canal+ invested money in Paris SG. A shame.

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Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages Technology Preview (October 2004 Release)

Nov 7, 2004

"Today, you can download a tool that you can use to describe the concepts in a problem domain as the basis for a modeling tool or graphical designer. It is itself a graphical tool built on top of our designer platform and it is completely integrated into Visual Studio. For example, if you need a business process modeling tool, this editor allows you to describe the concepts specific to the way you like to model your business processes."

It is basically a graphical designer hosted in Visual Studio 2005 for designing and editing the concepts (or metamodel) of visual domain specific languages.

There is also an interesting: "Walkthrough of the Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages" showing the use of the object model for a user interaction process (UIP) chart language. UIP chart defines pages and transitions between them as part of the design of a Web site, a wizard, or a form-based application. Figure 1 is an example of a UIP chart for a fictitious online shopping Web site. You might find more information on this page about the User Interface Process (UIP) Application Block - Version 2.0.

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Teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode III

Nov 7, 2004

Check out the trailer, here. I can't wait till May 2005...

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