Download it here.
(via Maarten Van Stam)
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February 4, 2008
Runtime download: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (version 3.0 Runtime)
04February
February 4, 2008
ELCOM: Career Plans for Developers – Part II
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. My job (as Technical Director) is to make the work environment so good that you don't want to...
February 3, 2008
MSDN Code Gallery – a great resource
03February
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 I wish Microsoft could improve the whole user...
February 3, 2008
Redfin and Real Estate
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 so I can get my commission' business model.After all, it is easy to find properties on the web...
February 3, 2008
Cooking tips for Guys for impressing Girls
Yep. There's a market for it for sure. Culinary Seductions.
(via TechCrunch)
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February 3, 2008
Is the Tipping Point Toast? Who cares?
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 big point about key influencers. Duncan Watts, a network-theory scientist from Columbia...
February 3, 2008
Gobbledygook – graphed
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.
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February 3, 2008
What does a web CMS do?
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 as the platform that you build your line of business (LOB) applications on. It needs to...
February 3, 2008
Going back through my IE Favourites
Perhaps you're like me and find all these interesting things and then forget to investigate further. They get tucked into a Favourites Tab Group folder and forgotten about until a rainy Sunday afternoon (literally). In my next few posts I'm go to clear out my 'must check that out later favourites folders' and link to stuff that was interesting (some date back to Sep 07 – ye...
February 3, 2008
Vista SP1 is imminent
Supposedly Vista SP1 will be released next week, perhaps even on Monday 4 Feb.
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