Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta

Yesterday I tried Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta.

Works pretty well, fast, nice interface (not to childish), and the ability to sign in with the same accounts onto multiple computers.

But there is an issue with the custom emoticons.

They get preserved on upgrade (luckily, they did it right this time), but they don’t display if you use them, not in the chat window itself, and not in the text input box.

Messenger 8

Messenger 9

Let’s hope they fix this in the future release :)

Flash Player 10 and WordPress file upload.

Since Adobe released Flash 10 I am unable to upload files with the Flash uploader, it seems they changed the API in order to make it more ‘secure’.

They do not allow any openfiledialogs to be opened without explicit click from the user.

This breaks a lot of usability.

I don’t know why they would break something like that, because the user still has to select a file and click ‘Open’. Because of some stupid user they break it for all users.

More info about this (unresolved, and propbably never resolvable) issue.

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 – Developer (2)

I would like to clarify a previous post of mine.

As stated there I will be attending Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 – Developer in Barcelona the 10th until the 14th of November this year.

There is so much to tell about this, it will be a week PACKED with programming, no silly lessons like school, but information on a decent level.

I already made my agenda for the week (it can change though), in order for them to know how many places they must reserve for each seminar.

I mainly chose WPF and Silverlight, and User Interface. Because that is what I like, the interaction between the program and the user.

Databinding and LINQ is also very interesting, and I will be attending a seminar about that subject.

More information will follow.