Microsoft Sweetens the Pot

My Podder Skinning Competition is officially one notch cooler now. Microsoft has offered to give each of the winners an 8 GB green Zune! That was a nice surprise!! :D

By the way, the most sought-after prize seems to be the steak dinner at Smith & Wollensky. Three people have already sent me e-mails saying that they are going to submit a skin into the competition just so that they can have me buy them a steak dinner. LOL! If you’ve ever been to Smith and Wollensky, I’m sure you understand…

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8 Responses to “Microsoft Sweetens the Pot”

  1. Karl Shifflett Says:
    April 30, 2008 at 6:48 am

    Who are those masked competitors? The Molenator demands to know, who would attempt to rob him of a STEAK!

    The is great news on the Zunes. Thank you Microsoft!

  2. marlongrech Says:
    May 1, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    cool…. good luck for the winner!

  3. Sandeep Says:
    May 1, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Hi Josh,

    Your blog on WPF rocks!!!. The Podder Skinning competition looks supercool. I would love to have participated. But I do not have VS2008. :(

  4. Josh Smith Says:
    May 2, 2008 at 7:13 am

    Sandeep,

    Thanks a lot! You can get VS2008 Express, which supports WPF programming, for free. Check it out here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/

    Josh

  5. King Says:
    May 6, 2008 at 6:35 am

    Hi Josh,

    How do I proceed if I encounter an (407) proxy authentication required error, while podder tries to retrieve the feed.

    Regards

  6. Josh Smith Says:
    May 6, 2008 at 9:24 am

    King,

    Someone supplied me with this fix for the issue you mentioned. I forgot to put it into the Podder source code before releasing it for the competition (my bad!):

    <system.net>
    <!– ## defaultProxy uses IE Browser Settings –>

    <defaultProxy enabled=”true” useDefaultCredentials=”true”>
    <!– ## REMOVE LINE - TO SET MANUALLY ##
    <proxy autoDetect=”unspecified”
    proxyaddress=”http://#proxy_ip_or_name:#proxy_port”
    bypassonlocal=”true”
    scriptLocation=”unspecified”
    />
    ## REMOVE LINE ## –>
    </defaultProxy>
    </system.net>

    Josh

  7. King Says:
    May 7, 2008 at 6:43 am

    Hi Josh,

    I the podder application up and running. Even tried to come up with a new skin.. I am new to WPF, but I loved working with it and also came up with a simple skin..

    You have put up a great app Josh, Keep up the great work.. Hats off

    Regards

  8. Josh Smith Says:
    May 7, 2008 at 9:18 am

    Thanks a lot, King! :D

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