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On Tuesday (December 15), I will be presenting (in English) in the theatre at the Apple Store Ginza beginning at 7:00 pm. I’ll be sharing some simple visual principles and design lessons from the world around us that can be applied to presentation design and beyond. I’ll talk a bit about the contents of the new book — presentation zen design — which went to press last week and we’ll have some copies of the first book in English and Japanese to give away (PZD will not be available until about Dec 27).

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Presentation at Apple Store Ginza (Tokyo) Dec 15, 7:00 pm

3D Buzz XNA Xtreme 101 Volume 1,2,3 Complete | 3.5 GB DVD I Have you ever been interested in creating your own games? Welcome to the XNA Xtreme 101 video training course! This first volume covers nearly 30 hours of lecture and is specially geared toward the first-time programmer interested in creating games for the PC and Xbox 360 platforms! Volume I will quickly get you up to speed in programming with a strong foundation in the C# programming language

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In the ViewModel, aka the MVVM pattern, a view such as a UserControl is bound to its associated view model. The view model manages state exposed as observable properties, operations exposed as methods and raises notifications via events. An interesting question is how a View should specify its view model, and how a view model instance should be created.

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ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight – Options for Hooking a View to its Model

My visit to Johannesburg recently brought back memories of my mother, oddly enough, watching the construction that was taking place – the longsuffering looks on the strained faces of drivers who have long resigned themselves to being daily inconvenienced by the activities taking place to spruce up the city before the world comes charging in. I was reminded of similar days when the family was expecting some important guest and the whole house would be turned upside down and we would be exiled outside with strict orders to steer clear of mama and her broomstick. I always resented the disruption such visits brought to our lives – there would be the shifting of bedrooms and suddenly I would find myself sleeping on the floor while the ‘dignitary’ enjoy the luxury of my single bed and the comfort of mama’s best sheets and bed linen

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So what’s 2010 got to do with it?

Aids Free World has released their report Electing to rape: Sexual terror in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe . Based on interviews with 72 survivors and witnesses, and documentation of 380 rapes, the report describes the deliberate, systematic use of rape as a campaign tactic by Zanu PF. According to their press release : The testimony demonstrates that the rape campaign waged by ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe was both widespread and systematic, with recurring patterns throughout that cannot be coincidental.

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Rape as campaign tactic in Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections

I was reading Ugandan feminist and lawyer Sylvia Tamale’s powerful response to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill last night. In a scathing assessment of this legislation, and the damage it would do to Uganda’s legal and social framework, she quotes Martin Luther King Jr., writing “Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” Regarding the bill, a few important points stood out for me

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Correct everything that stands against love

Over dinner on the weekend, the conversation turned to how different this year has felt from the past few. Of course, the difference is tinged with a mixture of relief and frustration. Economically, the relief of stable (even if high) prices, and goods (even when unaffordable) on the shelves has made the basic day-to-day requirements of getting by more predictable – but at the same time has made for a more expensive – and therefore even more tenuous – existence for many

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Zimbabwe is changing

By Rick Wilson Ecommerce can be used in conjunction with many different businesses and business models to enhance and grow their overall business. We’re going to look at three types of businesses today and how they can use ecommerce to improve their bottom line: 1.

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Three Ways You Can Use Ecommerce To Grow Your (or Your Clients) Business

From a Kubatana subscriber: Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA)’s bills are really worrying urban residents.  The rates being charged by ZESA are too far beyond resident’s earnings and too difficult to pay by the end of the month.  Can the responsible Ministry look into this issue and save the already suffering people of Zimbabwe. People are ailing to meet these bills and worse that there is no improvement in power supply in residential areas

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No power to the people

On Saturdays, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: new public speaking books; analysis of a contest-winning humorous speech; eye contact and facial expression tips; the case for white space; wardrobe tips; and comics that speakers are sure to enjoy. Resources for Speakers – Public Speaking Books Check out these recently released public speaking and communications books: Leadership Communication by Deborah Barrett Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun Say It Like Obama and WIN!: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision by Shel Leanne Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead by Nancy Ancowitz The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers by Nannette Rundle Carroll In Review: Six Minutes Speaking in Church: Lectern or No Lectern?

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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2009-12-05]

Everybody is drawing names and worrying about what to get for so-and-so, who needs so many things (or already has everything he or she needs). Not another necktie! And slippers…nuh uh… Cozy jammies are always nice, but maybe there is something even more appealing and creative, don’t you think?

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Gift Giving Dilemma? Consider a Gift Certificate from Studio Z Mendocino

Webmaster Level: All Country-code top-level domains (or ccTLDs) can provide people with a quick and valuable clue about the location of a website—for example, “.fr” for France or “.co.jp” for Japan. However, for certain top level domains like .com, .info and .org, it’s not as easy to figure out the location. That’s why today we’re adding region information supplied by webmasters to the green address line on some Google search results

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Region Tags in Google Search Results

Blogs can be free – for example You can also pay for experts to run blogs and for more expensive systems. If for presentations or tutorials, check out SlideShare for PowerPoints – http://www.slideshare.net/ – it’s free and only requires the creation and uploading of slide shows There’s lots on Google about podcasting, and it’s easy enough to The other day I wrote up a collection of information for a non-profit starting to get into social media. Thought I might as well share it more broadly

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Web Communications (Almost Always) for Free

Hi there, I was looking a little around the net to find a good documentation for the differences between SL and WPF within Microsoft Expression Blend. But with no success Because it is really important for those who are working daily on expression blend, let's see what we are able and not able to do by using Blend and SL/WPF. As soon as I notice some other differences, I'll let you know Bye, miridfd…( read more )

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Silverlight vs. WPF using BLEND

The presentation , and the audio of the talk and subsequent discussion, have now been uploaded. You can find an account of her visit on Sophie’s blog at http://sophiebury.ca/ and the slideshow and the audio can be downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2895 This is the abstract of her talk: “This presentation provides an overview of key findings and recommendations of a survey of full-time faculty at York University, which investigated their information literacy instruction practices, attitudes, and knowledge

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Sophie Bury’s talk

If you have been using the SQL Azure Portal for creating SQL Databases and connecting to them from your SQL Server Management Studio, you would have realized the ability to query the Azure Cloud Databases from within the management studio.  While this provides great opportunities in terms of relation capabilities and accessibility over the Cloud, there has been a recent upgrade to SQL Azure and in that process there has been a Firewall Support added to the SQL Azure Portal access. Specifically when you try to connect to SQL Azure, you would face the error Cannot connect to Additional Information Cannot open server requested by the login.  Client with IP Address ” ” is not allowed to access the host server. Login failed for user ‘ ’

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SQL Azure Connection error “Cannot connect to <servername>" Client with IP Address is not allowed to access server: Error 40615

I’m going to Berlin! Next week, I’m giving talks at Tech-Ed Europe on two of my favorite topics: What’s New in Microsoft ASP.NET Model-View-Controller ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) 2 introduces new features to make you more productive when building an ASP.NET MVC application. Templated helpers allow automatically associatiating edit and display elements with data types

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Speaking at Tech-Ed Europe Next Week

Today we are releasing new version of CodeIt.Right – build 1.8.09300. This version features complete ASP.NET support, it is compatible with VS2010 Beta 2 (in addition to VS2008, VS2005, VS2003), Add Rule dialog improvements – “Hide Rules in the Profile” and “Quick Search”, 10+ new rules including new category “CodingStyle”.

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Released: CodeIt.Right version 1.8.09300 – now compatible with VS2010 Beta 2!

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out and has a slick new UI.  Also, this Beta has most of the features that would ship with the final version compared to the earlier Beta.  Note that while new features might be added, there are chances that some of the features demonstrated here may also not be a part of the final release.  But, for now, lets examine the current Beta 2.  The first thing you would notice and probably like, is the UI enhancements.  Herebelow, is the launch screen. Also, the start page has been modified to accommodate more useful things.  The good thing is that you can completely customize the Start Page since it is a XAML based UI.  You can find the start page itself as a Project at C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7IDEStartPages once you install the Beta.  You can change it to reflect your organization specific templates, document repositories etc.,  Optionally you can even turn it off permanently, or, upon opening a project, using the checkbox options in the bottom left

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – a first look at the UI and Web Development

Telestream, a leading provider of digital video workflow solutions, has announced the first solution which offers YouTube fingerprinting for both live and file-based workflows. Digital fingerprinting is a process that uniquely identifies video, making it easier for media companies to discover and track their video content which is uploaded to YouTube

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Telestream Offers First Fully Integrated Solution for YouTube Fingerprinting