Ok, it looks good, hey it is black :) fancy touches and demos well in Steve Jobs’ hands.  But do I want one of these?

The answer is NO, for so many reasons.  I have to say I am disappointed.  I expected Apple to continue being on a roll and bring something that will change the Tablet market forever after the failure of Microsoft and others before it in the pursuit of consumer happiness :)

• No camera? What were you thinking?  I was expecting TWO of them in the front and the back.
• No multitasking? Really? this is not a ...

I came across an interesting technique earlier this week. Did you know that you can return an anonymous type from a method and still have strongly typed access to its members? I got this technique from Tomas Petricek’s blog. Here is a quick example of how it works; for details of why it works please see the original article.

  private  static  object ReturnAnon()
        {
             return  new { FirstName =  "Captain", MiddleName =  "Jack", LastName =  "Sparrow" };
        }

         private  static T Cast<T>(object o, T type)
        {
             return (T)o;
        }

         static  void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ...

If you aren’t aware of the unique qualities of Falafel Software, here’s one for the archives.  Falafelites are located across 4 time zones in California, Colorado, Texas, and Michigan, and through each other we get to experience lives beyond our own.  Someone is always sharing a cool story about what’s going on in their little world, and it is interesting to see how we can all morph from day-time (and sometimes night-time) developers or trainers into weekend warriors of such different types.

Among other things, we get to enjoy awe-inspiring photography, hear the surf, mountain biking, or maybe snowboarding reports, ...

Two recent events lead me to believe that this may indeed be the case….

First of all, we now have a Cisco Router, a segmented network with a real DMZ, Cisco VPN clients – the works. Real companies have Cisco Routers. Falafel used to have a desktop machine with two interface cards, one hooked up the Internet, one to the Intranet, and used Microsoft Routing and Remote Access for VPN and Firewall. Obviously not something a real company would do. And our external web servers were on a bunch of old PCs hooked straight up to the Internet with Windows ...

I've always been a fan of Commands way back when they were called Actions in the old Delphi days. With .NET, WPF, and Silverlight we have so many new tools available to us. One I’ve been having fun with is behaviors. If you're unfamiliar with these little jewels then check them out here and here. I almost immediately recognized a way to combine my old love of commands with my new love of behaviors. Let’s say we want to attach a generic command to refresh our server to any UI element using a behavior. To start ...