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...
This one has caught out people for ages, so I thought I'd clarify that it IS possible to connect to SQL Server 2005 Developer edition over a network. The problem is that the Express and Developer versions of SQL Server 2005 turn OFF remote access by default (Standard and Enterprise have it ON by default). That's why out-of-the-box you can't connect over a network to it. But it's...
NOTE: I meant to get this out last week but you may have noticed my link blog was down for the best part of a week :-( Microsoft has released a list of programs that are affected by Vista SP1. Not much to worry about, as most have newer versions available that support SP1. Zone Alarm and the NYT Reader are probably the main ones that will interest people. (via ZDNet) Thankfully, I've...
Another monster meeting at SBTUG this month. Presentations Our first presentation has Mike Culver (Amazon Evangelist) talking about Amazon Web Services. Come along and learn how more than a quarter of a million developers are taking advantage of building applications on the back of Amazon's infrastructure. Following Mike will be Steve Riley, Senior Security Strategist with Microsoft, talking...
We've done a little more testing of our product on the Microsoft 2008 stack and I'm pleased (and a little worried) with the results. The pleasing part: we are now showing results on the 2008 stack as being 16X faster than the 2003/2005 stack. The worrying part: results of 16X faster are very high – what if we've tested something incorrectly… So, the goal of this post is to...
Ask most people what the best thing about Open Source is, and they'll tell you one of two things: 1. It's not Microsoft, or 2. It's free We've all heard the Cost of Ownership arguments and know that being free to use is not necessarily free to operate, but that's not really an issue for people like, um, students. Microsoft has unveiled its DreamSpark* initiative, in which...
You've all heard of Amazon's Simple Storage Service by now. If not then check it out and sign up for own Web Services account. Amazon S3 gives you access to scalable storage for 15c per GB per month, with a 10c per GB data transfer cost. Assuming you just use the service to upload data for backup purposes you are getting high performance, scalable storage for 25c per GB per month. All...
Jon Galloway gives us the low down on this really cool application. It uses Silverlight Streaming, AJAX Toolkit and .NET 3.5 and other goodness, and describes itself as delivering YouTube-in-a-box.
(Note, you'll need Expression Encoder installed)
Technorati Tags: Video.Show, Silverlight, Expression, .NET 3.5
I really liked John Galloway's post on The Man who Knew Too Much, in which he outlines the wrong assumptions and actions we can sometimes make/take when surrounded by smart people, being too busy, etc. However, the item that caught my attention was his link to the strategy of aspiring to be the dumbest person in the room (it's about 2/3 the way down the page in Sally's answers)...
Here's an email our Sys Admin received in reply to a query to a vendor whose product wasn't working on our servers…
It made our decision to select a new vendor pretty easy.
Technorati Tags: Customer service