07-19-2005, 04:00 PM
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More On Persistent Storage From The WM Team Blog
Jon linked to a post on the Windows Mobile Team Blog last week discussing some of the technical aspects and rationale of persistent storage, and this of course drew questions from the community. Not only was Mike Calligaro listening, he was also reading our thread from the subject, and has written up a two part set of answers addressing some of the issues raised. Here's part 1, and here's part 2.
This is informative reading, even for MVPs like me who knew that WM5 would have persistent storage for some time -- so if you're planning to get a WM5 device, check it out. I would also like to footnote this post by saying Mike's tone in these posts is refreshingly clear and strikingly straightforward. Kudos to Mike for spelling out a lot of the team's design decisions. 8)
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07-19-2005, 04:49 PM
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Great write up. I am still confused as to why people are against PS. To me this is the best thing to happen to handhelds since the Newton (which had PS). I can still plug in a newton and have all my data where I left off, its great! I welcome safe data and longer battery life doesn't everybody?
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07-19-2005, 07:04 PM
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Those posts, especially the second, were wonderful. It is great to read such well-reasoned, well-written statements that came from within Microsoft. If Mike is a good representative of the whole team, then I'm even more excited about WM5 now than I was before!
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07-19-2005, 07:07 PM
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It has been said before: great piece. I feel much more comfortable now and I am looking forward to the upgrade.
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07-19-2005, 07:26 PM
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Great response from Mike, and it helped clear up some of my own concerns as well - they're doing it exactly the way I was hoping they would, and I'm looking forward to it.
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07-19-2005, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by gibson042
If Mike is a good representative of the whole team, then I'm even more excited about WM5 now than I was before!
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He is. If there is one thing I got out of being an MVP it's actually getting to meet some of the folks responsible for the OS and apps on my PPC. Haven't met one that wasn't truly commited to bringing out the best product they knew how, within the constraints levied on them by the business, and reality.
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07-19-2005, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Sven
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Originally Posted by gibson042
If Mike is a good representative of the whole team, then I'm even more excited about WM5 now than I was before!
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He is. If there is one thing I got out of being an MVP it's actually getting to meet some of the folks responsible for the OS and apps on my PPC. Haven't met one that wasn't truly commited to bringing out the best product they knew how, within the constraints levied on them by the business, and reality. |
The constraints of reality is always so annoying. If it wasn't for that I would have had Office 2025 on my PPC by now 
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07-19-2005, 09:57 PM
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As a developer, I've already assimilated one important lesson.
- I have to admit that with my Windows Mobile applications I've sometimes tended to be a bit lazy and apply logic like this at certain points: "Something might have changed, so save the config data". I'll now replace this with "Check whether anything has changed, and if it has, save the config data".
I'm oversimplifying both what I've been doing and what I'm going to do, but that's the gist of it.
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07-20-2005, 12:45 AM
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Mike definitely resolved a few issues which have been floating around the forums over the past month. It was very informative. 
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07-20-2005, 05:03 AM
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It was nice to read something that sounded like English, instead of like a manual. I especially like the prospect of longer battery life.
The only thing that I'm a little uneasy about is the timing of writing stuff back to ROM and the possibility of losing data on a soft reset, but I guess if things are saved often enough it shouldn't be a problem. Since it's doing all this writing every time you turn off the PPC, I wonder what happens if you try to turn it right back on again. Would there be a delay, or would it get confused?
Now if only someone would explain the lack of an option for WiFi Synch....
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