From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Valentine’s Day Happiness Strategies

February 12, 2008 Personal

A nice little series coming from the Happiness Strategies site. This post is for singles, and dishes out the advice on how to find happiness this Valentine's day. Tough love – Dr Phil would be proud. Technorati Tags: Happiness Strategies, Valentine's Day, Michele Connolly

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TFS Build from Grant Holliday

February 12, 2008 TFS

Grant has released the TFS Build site. He notes the thinking behind it here. Technorati Tags: TFS Build, Grant Holliday

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Microsoft’s TFS dogfooding continues

February 12, 2008 Microsoft

There's a few things I'm really liking about Microsoft of late. One is how much effort they are putting into products like TFS to make them truly amazing products. The second is how they are being transparent about so much of it. Take for example their work on TFS. This beast of a product is [...]

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TFS 2008 on Windows 2008

February 12, 2008 Microsoft

Seems to be working fine (according to Etienne), but with some manual steps required. Brian Harry explains why. As Brian notes, this was a fresh install of W2K8, and the real pain will come when upgrading from W2K3. Technorati Tags: TFS 2008, Windows 2008

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ASP.NET Wiki

February 9, 2008 Microsoft

Scott has announced the ASP.NET Wiki Beta. Looks like a good resource. Publishing guidelines are here. (via Computer Zen) Technorati Tags: ASP.NET, Wiki

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TIP: Problems with hidden Adobe download install files

February 9, 2008 Main

PROBLEM: Adobe Download Manager hides files on your hard disk. As a result your install doesn't work, and further you can't find the hidden files to delete them. SOLUTION: Find the hidden files underneath the \Temporary Internet Files\ directory DETAILS: If you've downloaded an Adobe product lately using their Download Manager you might have got [...]

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TIP: Changing Vista Desktop icon sizes

February 8, 2008 Main

It's easy to change the icons on your desktop in Vista if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel. Simply hold down your CTRL key and scroll your mouse. Forward to larger, back for smaller. Technorati Tags: Tip, Vista, Desktop icon size

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TIP: Wikipedia Search from IE7

February 6, 2008 Main

Another one I didn't realise existed… IE7 has a simple way of adding other Search engines to the Search box. Just choose the Find more providers… option. The one I use the most is the Wikipedia option – it's very handy to search for a term on Google (my default engine) and the also check [...]

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VFP: Visual FoxPro Sedna release – biggest launch ever!

February 5, 2008 Main

TechCrunch went into meltdown with the news. CNN covered it live. And Super Tuesday has been rescheduled to cope with the disruption… Amazingly though, in what I can only imagine is an embarrassing oversight, there was no press release about it. In possibly the tiniest launch announcement I've ever seen (you'll need hours to read [...]

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Runtime download: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (version 3.0 Runtime)

February 4, 2008 VSTO

Download it here. (via Maarten Van Stam) Technorati Tags: VSTO, Runtime

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ELCOM: Career Plans for Developers – Part II

February 4, 2008 Elcom

Further to my post about career plans for developers at Elcom, I wanted to mention the approach of encouraging staff to build their personal profiles. It can be summed up in this attitude: Your job (as a developer and employee) is to be so good that you are being chased by head-hunters all the time. [...]

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MSDN Code Gallery – a great resource

February 3, 2008 Microsoft

Microsoft Code GalleryOne of things I found myself saying when going through the excellent How Do I videos is: Where's the code? Here's the answer.Thanks Microsoft. (via Beth Massi and Soma) Also check out wOOdy's Visual FoxPro code snippets. Complaints I don't usually like to complain when something good like this comes out, but gee [...]

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Redfin and Real Estate

February 3, 2008 General Tech

I've always thought Real Estate agents are more of a hindrance than a help, and wondered why on earth we need them? There's plenty of problems with the whole 'I'll sell your house for you, charge you, but maybe not work in your best interest if it suits me to just sell it to someone [...]

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Cooking tips for Guys for impressing Girls

February 3, 2008 General Tech

Yep. There's a market for it for sure. Culinary Seductions. (via TechCrunch) Technorati Tags: Cooking for Geeks

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Is the Tipping Point Toast? Who cares?

February 3, 2008 Link

It's been blogged to death I know, but I wanted to link to it anyway. Article: Is the Tipping Point toast? My answer: Who cares? And with that in mind, why an I even linking to it? Here's a summary for people who couldn't be bothered reading it all: Malcolm Gladwell's famous book makes a [...]

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Gobbledygook – graphed

February 3, 2008 Humour

What a classic – David Meerman Scott analyses the use of meaning phrases by news services. Topping the list: 'next generation', 'robust' and 'world class'. See also his Gobbledygook Manifesto. Great stuff – perfect for your next game of wank bingo. Technorati Tags: Gobbledygook

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What does a web CMS do?

February 3, 2008 Elcom

I'm not sure if I agree with the simplicity of this, but it does highlight a common misconception about CMS systems. The CMS manages the content of course, but these days it often needs to provide much more 'out of the box'. At Elcom, where I work for example, we are positioning our CMS product [...]

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Vista SP1 is imminent

February 3, 2008 Microsoft

Supposedly Vista SP1 will be released next week, perhaps even on Monday 4 Feb. Technorati Tags: Vista, SP1

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CLARITY: VSTS, VSTO, VSTA, VSX

February 2, 2008 Clarity

Seems like Microsoft is having a V Day, every day. Here's a run down of the main V technologies/tools: VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) Firstly, Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2008 (the current version) is Microsoft's IDE for building .NET based applications, be they Web, Desktop, Device or Microsoft Office based. Visual Studio comes in a [...]

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