Manuel Meyer – 12qw.ch

The matrix effect applied to a surf video. Amazing stuff!!!! The action kicks off at 00:30.

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How did the do it?

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This post is dedicated to the Consultant known as “The Gass”.
Check out this video from Tel-Aviv university about quantum trapping. They provided a prototype for levitation. In other words: “Locking supercooled objects in a magnetic field” Uuhm, right.
I have never seen that before. Amazing.

 
Looks like finally we are getting closer to the hoverboard….Jiiihaaaaaa!!!! 
 

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Microsoft created a couple of videos that depict how our office and private lives could look like in the future.
Have a look:

Microsofts Vision of 2019

 
My personal favorites: The touch-enabled newspaper and the intelligent coffee cup.
And there is one more:

Productivity Future Vision

 
Keep in mind that 2019 is only about 7 more years from today and [...]

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Today we tried to deploy from Visual Studio to our local BizTalk Server Instance using the Deployment Framework for BizTalk. At the binding import stage the process failed and reported the following error message:
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Information: Importing bindings “D:\Projects\MyProject\MyProject\MySolution.MyFolder.MyProject\PortBindings.xml” into application “MyApplication.App1″ in BizTalk configuration database (server=”hostname”, database=”BizTalkMgmtDb”)…
Error: Failed to update binding information.
Cannot update send port “SqlSendPort_DataBase1″.
Cannot [...]

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Open source Tools will help you boost your development productivity in a BizTalk Project. These are the tools you need!
All of the Tools except for DebugView can be downloaded from CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com).
 
Deployment Framework for BizTalk
The Deployment Framework for BizTalk provides you with a best practice approach on how to structure your BizTalk Visual [...]

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Windows 7 comes with lots and lots of keyboard shortcuts. Some of them being extraordinarily handy. Here are my favorites:
Open Command Window from Windows Explorer
In Windows Explorer, right click a file or folder while holding down the shift key. This will give you the “Open Command Window Here” command to open a Windows Command Window [...]

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Creating BizTalk message schemas manually is usually a rather tiring task. A lot of typing and mouse-action is required. I really did not like to create BizTalk schemas until, one day, i found out that BizTalk offers very good support in the form of keyboard shortcuts. The problem is that if you are working with [...]

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Visual Studio has another well hidden feature, the Mini Command Window. You can use the “Find” TextBox on the toolbar to start commands.
 
Just set the cursor to the “Find” TextBox and enter a command. All the commands start with ‘>’. Here is a list of available commands:

>alias (show commands)
>g (start debug)
>q (stop debug)
>r [...]

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Visual Studio is shipped with hundreds of keyboard shortcuts. Here are my favorites:
General:

Go to Definition: F12
Find all References: Shift + F12
Go to last edited position in code: Ctrl – -  (Ctrl – Dash)
Delete Line: Ctrl – L
Cut Line: Shift – Del
Copy Line: Ctrl – C (no need to select the text before)
Comment/Uncomment: Ctrl – K [...]

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Working with Visual Studio 2008, I always end up with a total mess of code editor windows (tabs). These two tricks helped me a lot to keep things under control:
 
1. Track Active Item in Solution Explorer
By enabling this setting, once you open the solution explorer, it will always be scrolled to a position where it [...]

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I’m am currently working on a project to evaluate the new Microsoft server product Dublin, often referred to as the new “Microsoft Application Server”. Here is a little introduction and a handful of useful resources.
1. What is Dublin?
Dublin is a piece of Software which will be integrated into Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). Dublin supports [...]

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Did you ever sit in the office and feel sorry for your buddies?
Let them hear your feelings with http://www.sadtrombone.com/
Another website the world was waiting for!!! 
Technorati-Tags: Fun

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This post continues my overview post about LiveMesh and the Windows Live Framework (http://www.12qw.ch/?p=13).
It explains how and why the Live Framework is interesting for software developers and what you need if you want to start programming Live Services.
Requirements
1. Get a Windows LiveID (If you do not have one already)
2. Visit http://dev.live.com/liveframework/
3. Download and install the [...]

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This post gives an overview about Live Mesh, Live Services and the Live Framework.
Cloud computing is on the rise. The benefits of cloud computing programming paradigms are becoming clearer every day. But, as many problems are solved, new problems arrive.
The biggest issue in regard to cloud computing is connectivity. What can you do if you [...]

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