Monday, December 7, 2009

December Events

12.05.2009 INFS 772 Research Day at Mason

2009-12-05 11.16.13

12.03.2009 Microsoft MSDN Road Show

2009-12-03 14.28.01

Thursday, November 19, 2009

DROID

This is the best phone yet!

DROID

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Blend 3 Launch with Joel Cochran

Very good and precise walkthrough. Lots of tips and tricks. Joel is an exciting and knowledgeable speaker.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Blogging from iPod Touch

Trying out the new WordPress 2 app for iPod Touch. :)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Articulate Your Data with FluentNHibernate with Roberto Hernandez

I got to learn a lot about FluentNHibernate tonight. He made it seem really simple while powerful at the same time. He’s a good presenter. Thanks Roberto and CapArea.NET!

Data with FluentNHibernate with Roberto Hernandez

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Issue: IIS cannot display the webpage

Issue:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Possible Solution:

Make sure the following services are running: IISAdmin and World Wide Web Publising.

World Wide Web Publishing Service IISAdmin Service

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Code Camps Fall 2009

Richmond Code Camp 10/03/2009

Richmond Code Camp Fall 2009

NOVA Code Camp 10/10/2009

NOVA Code Camp Fall 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Expression Studio 3

First step - have it installed. I can see progress already. :)

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

LUCAS NGUYEN is Here

DOB: 07/19/2009. Congratulations to Will and To-Han!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

To Hoang-Anh

You can do it!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

To Hoang-Anh

You can do it!

Monday, June 29, 2009

To Hoang-Anh

You can do it!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

To Hoang Anh

You can do it!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

To Hoang-Anh

You can do it!

Friday, June 26, 2009

To Hoang-Anh

You can do it!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

To Hoang-Anh

You can do it!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

To Hoang-Anh

You can do it!

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Great Chef Hoang-Anh

And she's also my girl and personal chef! :)



Friday, May 29, 2009

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Sci-Fi Books for Your Imagination

And for mine as well.

Dune (Frank Herbert, 1965)
Foundation Trilogy (Isaac Asimov, 1951-1953)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams, 1978-2001)
Anathem (Neal Stephenson, 2008)
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks, 1984)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein, 1961)
Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)

Thursday, March 5, 2009

OpenCalais Meetup

Meetup Description

Tom Tague will be presenting Calais 4.0 - and its connection to the Linked Data cloud - to reporters, editors, Semantic Web aficionados, and developers alike in Washington DC on March 5, 2009. The DC Area Online News Association Meetup will also be joining us at this event.

Specifically, Tom will address the 'Linked Content Economy,' an evolving ecosystem of enriched and connected content that puts semantic metadata and open data assets to work in everyday media, content applications and Web-based services of all kinds.

Parking is available under the building, and the location is walking distance from McPherson Square and Metro Center stations.

Refreshments will be served.

Calais: Connect. Everything.

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.

What Calais does sounds simple – what you do with it could be simply amazing.

The Core: The Calais Web Service

The Calais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes your document and finds the entities within it. But, Calais goes well beyond classic entity identification and returns the facts and events hidden within your text as well.

Take a look at the Document Viewer for a small demonstration of what Calais can do.

This metadata gives you the ability to build maps (or graphs or networks) linking documents to people to companies to places to products to events to geographies to… whatever. You can use those maps to improve site navigation, provide contextual syndication, tag and organize your content, create structured folksonomies, filter and de-duplicate news feeds, or analyze content to see if it contains what you care about.

The Tools: A Growing Ecosystem of Calais-Enabled Capabilities

The Calais Web Service is a powerful capability - but using it to deliver value to real people requires applications and the tools to build them. Major focus areas of the Calais initiative are delivering the tools with which to build great applications and fostering the community of developers that will make those applications happen.

To learn more about the growing set of Calais tools please take a moment to visit the Gallery and Tools sections of the site.

The "Open" in Calais

The web service is free for commercial and non-commercial use. We’ve sized the initial release to handle millions of requests per day and will scale it as necessary to support our users.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Diary: Week of 2/23/2009 - 3/1/2009

Sunday, March 1 -- Coupons for free small subs at Quiznos in Alexandria. Too bad one of them didn't participate in the promotion. Hoang-Anh drove back to school around 2. Finished watching 'The Express' at home - good movie. Finishing up SWE625 Stage 4 - charter, whole document. Need to prepare for Quiz #1. Excited about having the braces taken off tomorrow after 3 long years.