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Working for Avanade means that you will be on the road quite a lot. And as trafficjams are a fact of live I try to get us much done while standing still. I phone a lot of people and have meetings that way. And Audible player can read books to me for which I can't find the time in the evening.

But reading my emails or even an sms can be dangerous. I was reading one mail last week and only because the people at Renault put such great brakes in to my Megane I didn't total it and myself. So that taught me a lesson.

Don't read and drive.

But I still would like to be able to read mails. While I was surfing a bit on the internet I found a number of text to speech applications for my windows mobile. None really had the user interface I wanted. So I contacted www.sayvoice.com and asked if they wanted to hear some of my ideas.

To cut a long story short Richky Hsu one of their developers contacted me and said they were very interested. So now I am co-developing the product. Mainly because I needed a serieus hobby project. And speech technology and mobiles have always interested me.

If you are interested in field testing the prototypes than drop me a line.

As almost always installing a second windows installation next to your primary seldom goes without a hitch. If you ever want to install a Windows 2003 next to your already installed vista than have the install disk of Vista in hand.

I had to use the command prompt to start Bootrec.exe and rewrite the boot sector. After that I had to download Vista Boot Pro and add Windows server as an install entry. Finally after three hours of hard work and searching the install could finalize.

And now for the rest of the server installations.

2d javascript graphics

Did you ever wish that you could draw lines or circles in html? Without using images. Now you can by using the javascript graphics classes. They were written by Walter Zorn and can be downloaded here.

Workflow Javascript API

But if you think that is cool than you need to have a look at the Draw2D website that actually contains an api for making workflow programs. It handles dragging and dropping, arrows boxes. Every thing you need to make a workflow program. The api is actually very well written and I have used it in previous projects. It's completely object oriented javascript and quite cool.

3D rendering in Javascript

The last really cool website contains an explanation on how to render 3D images using javascript and html. Just read the explanation and have fun using it.

I wrote my first article today. It's about how a mouse gesture (sign) such as a circle or left to right move can be recognized and how events or commands can be fired.

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My name is Daan Jonkers and since Monday 3rd of March 2008 I am a proud member of Anavade. This blog will be about my adventures at Avanade. It will also be about www.MyDomotica.com which is a company owned by a friend of mine. They are making really cool house control systems and I will be helping them with advice and support.

MyDomotica is also a great opportunity for me to try out all the Avanade methodologies and Microsoft software. Together we plan to use only Microsoft software and the .Net offerings in particular. And I will blog or publish articles here about all the steps that we will need to take.

The first part will be about the Avanade Connected Methods and how they can be applied to MyDomotica.  But I am also going to write about WPF/Xaml, WCF/Web services, Sharepoint, System Center, Embedded XP, the .Net Framework and anything else that is part of my technology focus.