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Where oh where does the time go?

Lately, it has gone into the book and an incredibly exciting project. The book is coming along, though the labor pains are much more intense than I ever expected and the delays caused directly and indirectly by my illness earlier this year were more substantial than I (or the publisher) would have ever liked. That said, between reinvigorating my writing and picking up an expert-among-experts to co-author with me, the book is progressing very nicely and with all the depth and richness I had hoped for at the outset.



The project (http://research.microsoft.com/ero/) that has engulfed me since right after my illness has had me working in the UK. It has been a dream job, with elements of MSRS, hardware engineering, wireless sensor webs, extreme physical and networking environments, research, a chance to deeply investigate some new (to me) technologies like WPF and Compact Framework, and a chance to help out on some real honest-to-goodness save-the-planet eco/bio-science. I'd love to share more of the details of this project, but those will have to come out through other channels (like academic papers, MSR Tech Reports and the like), which they will. I will elaborate more here, when and how I can.

I'll use the next few posts though to pass on some very useful technical tips that I've learned in the process of doing this project. In particular, some tricks for MSRS cross-machine interactions, Compact Framework and a series of articles on integrating MSRS with WPF for true service-to-UI one-way and two-way data binding.

Posted by Martin R. Calsyn at 9:28 PM

http://robotsoftware.blogspot.com/

"expert-among-experts to co-author" -- hmmmmm. could it be Tandy?



fyi - this site says the book will be released this month on the 23rd. http://blogs.msdn.com/davbaker/archive/2007/02/08/pre-order-martin-calsyn-s-robotics-studio-book-on-...

fyi - Ranyell1 is still using [e-mail] in his iHub profile. rumor has it that he just heard about the book, btw. "not worth a PR" was supposedly overheard somewhere.

any idea where the ABB money went?!?