Since my supervisor was recently appointed to a professorship [1], I changed universities this month. Due to this change I updated my research page [2] now including my current research.

[1] http://www.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de/vs/en/index.htm
[2] http://www.aheil.de/Research.aspx

Yesterday, I received the deeply sad message that Prof. Karen Spärck Jones [1] died in the age of 71. During last year's Microsoft Research Summer School she was one of the judges members evaluating the student's posters - such as mine [2]. The critics have been quite hard but effective, clearly telling what was missing and what has to be improved. One of the few valuable reviews.

Some of her  artwork can be seen in the public area at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in of the Roger Needham Building. Whenever you attend a talk or lecture there, you should have a look...

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ksj21/
[2] http://www.aheil.de/Research.aspx

Today I found an online resource providing some tips and information how a research poster might look like. I have seen a lot of bad ones and do do not consider mine as perfect yet. So maybe [1] does help in improving the research posters...

For those writing papers I still recommend Simon Peyton Jones' "How to write a good research paper" [2]. 

[1]  http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/#Note0
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk.htm

A while ago Microsoft release the Consolas Font for Visual Studio 2005 [1]. I haven't thought [2] of it for a while until I set up my machine during the last days. There is a significatn difference while using the Consolas font (all characters the same width, optimized for ClearType and quite a bit smaller than the old typewriters). The pictures shows a direct comparison of both fonts...

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?...
[2] http://blog.aheil.de/ConsolasFontForVisualStudio2005.aspx

Today I found some time to upgrade my dasBlog version to 1.9.6264.0. The upgrade is straightforward as described in [1], however I lost the comments on the articles for some unknown reasons.

[1] http://www.dasblog.info/SetupInstall.aspx

Another new download featureing WPF examples [1].

"The Panel is the place to collect showcases of new user experiences and provide insights on how they were implemented. WPF applications and Windows Live gadgets are featured."

[1] http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6515578

Here we go, the Windows SDK Update for Vista [1]:

"The Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) Update for Windows Vista provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications using both native (Win32) and managed (.NET Framework) technologies. This release of the SDK supplies"

[1] http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6515574

Ther are two versions of the Windows SDK out there. The fist one is a .iso download [1], the second one the Web setup [2]. They should be the same, however the .iso is version 5.0 while the Web setup is version is Orcas_March07CTP...

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

Just tripped over the Reflector Add-In Repository [1] on CodePlex. Very valuable add-ins for my favorite .NET tool [2].

[1] http://www.codeplex.com/reflectoraddins
[2] http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Coming back from Redmond I found the Visual Studio Update for Vista RTM [1] available.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...