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As the tile of this blog is 'Martin on WPF and .NET' I will in the future post other stuff on martinrauscher.posterous.com.
05/07: Opera Unite - New Ideas
Opera recently released a small revolution: Opera Unite. In short it's a web server integrated into your web browser.
Thinking about it I realized this could be far cooler than everyone else though. Of course people soon realized that Unite is technically cool. But everybody (including Opera itself) only published and showed services that already existed and simply worked as every other web server, too.
03/06: Opera 10 Beta
Opera 10 Beta is out, and it's great! Ted Miller was nice enough to give me an early look, and this is what to expect:
Visual Tabs
Do I have to say more? 
Not an Opera first, but still great and it is good to see that Opera isn't afraid of using good features they didn't invent.
... and I'll get a preview today! :)
Come back tomorrow for my review.
Opera has started an affiliate program...
I still hope for an Opera 10 Beta release this week... :)
From day one I had one problem with Dropbox:
If I use it to save all my personal data then just a small bug in their system or a criminal employee could gain access to all of my Data...
My data isn't this sensitive, but you know, it just feels bad...
But I just found (via http://alternativeto.net/) a new application that will fill this gap: SpiderOak
They say "Engineering Matters" and created a system that has truly zero-knowledge of your data. Just great! (For more info just go to their site...)
Another thing that SpiderOak does better than Dropbox is that you can backup/sync any folder, not just those under your "My Dropbox" folder...
And you can share whole folders.
The only thing that I now use Dropbox for is fast publishing of single files. Just dropping something into your public folder and then right click -> "copy public link" is really nice thing, but I guess it's just a matter of time until SpiderOak has this, too :)
PS: Another reason why I like this company, is because they gave a whole 50GB for free, because I helped them a little bit :)
PPS: This is my first post with Windows Live Writer, let's see if this works...
Edit: Well special characters have problems...
Copy Public Link for SpiderOak: I created something
I just read a blog post by Dave Winer. He is far too FF centric like so many people, but he has a point.
When you look at our ever more evolving web applications you can clearly see that this simply was never thought to be the task of HTML. Most of all apps are somewhat datacentric, and while with css you can quite nicely separate this content from its design it's still kind of botch. And at least when you look at apps like Google Spreadsheet you can see, that Javascript can do much, but it is too much constricted by the DOM and the whole way you have to do dynamic things.
14/03: Dropbox
If you haven't heard about DropBox:
It's an online storage like Box.net BUT with instant synchronization on all your PCs with all OSs!
IT JUST WORKS!tm
If you are interested: Please refer me!
UPDATE: Please see my new blog post about SpiderOak.
I'm writing a "small" task management software for the team I work for. Obviously I'm using the great features of WPF and the current version of the WpfToolkit:DataGrid
Now, have a look at these two pictures:
The only difference from (1) to (2) is, that i scrolled maybe 5px down...
I have SnapsToDevicePixels activated for the whole application, and it looks like this has some rounding errors sometime... If you didn't see it, I'm using an DropShadowEffect the show the currently selected item, and as I wrote previously This DISABLES SnapsToDevicePixels. But interestingly I can't see a difference in text rendering in the good case...
Do you have any ideas why this happens?
