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Windows Live SkyDrive goes live - Now with 5gb of free online storage. MS beat Google to this one for a change. Also, Google should take notice that products can come out of beta, Gmail has been beta for almost 4 years now. Did I mention how much I love SkyDrive?
Xbox 360 drops HD DVD.
SQL 2005 Driver for PHP CTP
Visual Studio Power Tools for Office - Much easier to create Ribbon applications for Office 2007 with these power tools.
2 Tools For Mac Developers - I’m not one yet but might be sooner then later.
Written by Tim on February 25th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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GraffitiCMS ships - A .NET CMS that proclaims it’s simple.
YUI 2.5.0 Released - What will happen to these guy when MS takes over? They do really good JS & performance work at Yahoo!
Opera CTO still upset over IE 8 - I’m done using Opera Mini on my BB b/c of Opera’s crap. The EU & Opera need to move on. MS only owns 2 markets at this point, Operating Systems & Office, everything else they have to compete like hell to stay up with.
Job Opening - Wanna develop IronRuby or IronPython? That would be to cool, right?
Stored Procedures Performance various between ADO.NET & Management Studio
.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap - I seriously had to think what is a "client product" for a minute. You mean people are developing things not on the web still ?
Written by Tim on February 21st, 2008 with 3 comments.
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Visual WebGui - While I’ve been drilling thru MS AJAX I didn’t even notice this tool.
The Underlying Connection was Closed - How to Fix
Vista SP1 Terminal Server Changes
Students get Microsoft Software for free. Another reason MS isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, they get the young hooked early.
Google bans Datapoohbah - This is funny. Hope I don’t get Google’s wrath for linking to him.
Written by Tim on February 20th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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ALM Quality Ready Assessment - See how your development process scores
QuickSlide: Create slides from your web browser address bar. - This is a neat concept.
SharedView Beta 2 - Better then VNC but limited to windows
ReSharper 4.0 Released - This is goodness for your VS developers
Written by Tim on February 18th, 2008 with 6 comments.
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Background Image on Remote Desktop Connections
ShareThis - Willy is digging this, an all in one blog sharing tool, does look nice. I’ll probably add when I redesign this blog.
FF 3.0 beta 3 released. I might give this a shot, replacing the FF 2.0.11 I run now, which is a memory whale.
20 Famous Software Disasters - Gotta love this:
10. Ariane Rocket Goes Boom (1996)
Cost: $500 million
Disaster: Ariane 5, Europe’s newest unmanned rocket, was intentionally destroyed seconds after launch on its maiden flight. Also destroyed was its cargo of four scientific satellites to study how the Earth’s magnetic field interacts with solar winds.
Cause: Shutdown occurred when the guidance computer tried to convert the sideways rocket velocity from 64-bits to a 16-bit format. The number was too big, and an overflow error resulted. When the guidance system shut down, control passed to an identical redundant unit, which also failed because it was running the same algorithm.
Written by Tim on February 13th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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Berry Locator - For you crackberry addicts,. this looks really nice. Send a specific email to your bb and it wakes it up no matter if it’s in silent mode and even sends back a map of where your blackberry is. Very cool.
Getting JS & ASP.NET Talking
The Silverlight Strategy - Gotta love the quote "Why Microsoft will win, and dominate the web". Sorry, but MS is content to play second fiddle in a ton of areas.
Written by Tim on February 12th, 2008 with 5 comments.
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Ruby.Net is Dead, long live IronRuby
Windows Releases Server 2008 & Vista SP1 to RTM - You can find server 2008 on MSDN but not Vista SP1. I recently reloaded Vista without SP1 RC and let me tell you it sucks,slow, buggy. I’m putting RC on my laptop tongiht, if things don’t get better I’m seriously thinking about going back to XP.
Download all the .NET Source Code at once.
Written by Tim on February 6th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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IronPython Studio - Written within VS 2008 Shell
IE8 Standards Mode - At some point we are going to have to bite the bullet and stop supporting quirks mode. Sure it’ll break some people’s viewing but then they’ll upgrade their browser and join the rest of us in 2008. It’s not like anyone supports Netscape 3 anymore.
ASP.NET MVC Example with Entity Framework - Yeah, ASP.NET Forms are dying even though no one from Microsoft will admit it.
ADO.NET performance improvements with .NET 2.0 SP1 - Wait a second, I didn’t know they shipped a SP1??? WTF. via Sam Gentile
Build Banner to ASP.NET Apps - via Jason Haley
YUI - CSS Grid Builder via Jason Haley
Written by Tim on January 31st, 2008 with 3 comments.
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