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March 5, 2008

TIP: Fixing the annoying Vista Windows Explorer View quirk

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05March

Like many people I was hoping that Vista SP1 would fix the issue with Views in Windows Explorer changing randomly. But alas, it didn't. Gee, must be a big bug. Anyway, there is a registry hack that fixes it – sort of. It doesn't actually fix it, rather it just sets all the folders undefined, which in effect will keep them at the current view. To enable it you'll need to add a...

March 5, 2008

MEDIA: Speaking at a Microsoft Media event

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Last week I spoke at my first media event. Which was kinda fun. Here's what happened. As part of the Microsoft Heroes Happen Launch event last week, Microsoft put on a media event. It was all organised by their PR company (in this case Howorth Communications) and involved getting a few key Microsoft executives (Martin Gregory and Bob Kelly) plus a few clients (5 in this case) to tell of their...

March 4, 2008

Mick Badran on BizTalk and Carbon footprints…

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04March

Mick’s post on his recent BizTalk RFID training course is great news of course, but the snippet that caught my eye was this. When talking about customer uptake of RFID, here’s the approach that got a good response. He quotes Scott Allen (a Microsoft Technical Specialist): Scotty inspired me with his take on BizTalk RFID – he said "If you tell clients we’ve got a show...

March 4, 2008

Microsoft Office Live Workspace

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I really like the new Office Live Workspace concept. Not ground breaking, but very slick. Easy to use and pretty fast. Integrates with three of your apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). It’s still in Beta (isn’t everything these days?) but seems very solid on first usage. Easily share workspaces with your friends, customers and community links. It is similar to SkyDrive in use, but in a...

March 4, 2008

Grant Holliday on Blockers

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A great little post by Grant on how to deal with ‘Blockers’.
I loved the anecdote about a company policy for running virus scan on everyone’s machine at 11am daily.
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March 3, 2008

MICROSOFT: Heroes Happen {Here} presentation

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03March

I had the pleasure of speaking as part of Dave Glover's session in the Visual Studio track at last Thursday's Microsoft Wave launch in Sydney. Dave's session was on some of the new productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. In my spot I covered off the experiences we've had with the 2008 stack at Elcom. In particular I outlined how we, as a software development company...

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