{"id":656,"date":"2006-03-26T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/26\/how-does-the-back-of-a-window-look-like\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T21:37:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T06:37:20","slug":"561409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/26\/561409\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the back of a window look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>With the new Vista Carousel control <IMG src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/events\/pdc\/images\/image006_thumb.jpg\"> we discover that Windows are not tied to a 2D plane, but they can happily spin around in 3D space. Probably thanks to a really bad digestion, yesterday I found myself wondering how <EM>the back of a window<\/EM> [should] look like: if you rotate it more than 180 degrees (or PI radians, depending on personal beliefs [:)]) around the Y axis, what do you expect to see? A pattern like the back of a playing card? The mirrored image of the front? Circuits? White noise? Some visuals a&#8217; la Matrix? A hole in the space-time continuum? Stickers of all the places where the app ran in the past? The signatures of all the SDEs and SDETs who worked on that particular window? A view of yourself as&nbsp;seen from behind the monitor? A Plasma fractal with the Chrome palette, a&#8217; la Fractint? Maybe I should ask to my&nbsp;Vista Evangelists colleagues&#8230; or I should ask you!&nbsp;If you have ideas, send me images through the email function of the blog&#8230; I&#8217;ll publish in a dedicated post the most suggestive [:-)]<BR><\/P><br \/>\n<P>P.S.: I know, I know, that&#8217;s not very server side of me&#8230; but when I have those fantasies, you know I have to free them in the wild or they keep haunting me until I do so [:)]<\/P><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new Vista Carousel control we discover that Windows are not tied to a 2D plane, but they can happily spin around in 3D space. Probably thanks to a really bad digestion, yesterday I found myself wondering how the back of a window [should] look like: if you rotate it more than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}