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The latest Zeitgeist documentary has been released.  After watching the 2h 45min long movie I am very impressed.  Wonderfully put together and the message is clear.
It is great to see a group of people addressing the root causes of many of the cultural and ethical defects we are faced within our world.

The Zeitgeist Movies have spawned The Zeitgeist Movement, an activist group that is bringing the ideas of Resource Based Economy to the world.  The basis of the ideas for the future put forward in the movie are based on work done by The Venus Project.

We can all remember when ASP.NET came out and Microsoft Marketing department was boasting that every WinForms developer is now a web developer as well.  We can also remember how all those WinForms developers quickly changed their resumes to include web development.  What happened all that time ago can still be felt today.  It is very hard to find a .NET developer today (around where I contract) that I would consider a web developer.  Now, my standards are not that high, understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and even with these low expectations there are still very hard to find.

According to this article Microsoft is at it again, this time saying that every .NET developer is a Windows Phone developer.  I for one will NOT be updating my resume.  I have not written any mobile applications (other then a few just to have a play).  I’ve been using Microsoft .NET Framework before it was in Beta and I would never consider myself Windows Phone developer.

Maybe I am naive, but this is a call to all the Microsoft .NET developers… don’t update your resumes until you’ve built and deployed a Windows Phone application.  Maybe I am naive, maybe all of them will update their resumes and get well paid contracts.  I just really don’t want to see another 10 years of crappy mobile applications like I’ve had to deal with 10 years of stupid ASP.NET applications, SharePoint anyone?

Google have released a Google Chrome Frame an open source Microsoft Internet Explorer plugin that allows pages to be rendered using Google Chrome engine inside Microsoft Internet Explorer.If you create web applications and like me spend hours fixing CSS/JS issues so Internet Explorer can work the same way as other browsers Google Chrome Frame is one of the best ideas I’ve seen in a long time.Of course users will have to install the plugin to get the benefits, and this does not mean that IE should be ignored and applications should still degrade gracefully.Having said that, finally IE users can benefit from Canvas based applications, get fast V8 JS engine for great web application performance and all the benefits that code with using Google Chrome.To get google chrome frame working in IE, first users have to install the plugin.  Developers need to add the following meta tag to the header section of their HTML document.

As a side note if anyone wants to use Google Chrome Frame for all sites (not just sites with the above mentioned meta tag) create a new DWORD registry key (if it doesn’t already exist) HKCU\Software\Google\ChromeFrame\OptInUrls with value of *

Well my daughter Maya has a blog.  She is 3 years old and well on her geeky way… http://maya.mustajbegovic.com/