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January 31, 2008

MySpace comes up with a great idea – build a Developer platform

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31January

Here's an idea… if you have a Social Networking site, why not build an API that allows developers to build applications for it? Brilliant. MySpace certainly is leading the field with this revolutionary idea. Oh hang on, that's right, Facebook did that 8 months ago and now has over 15,000 apps built by devs. Hmmmm, 8 months is an eternity in social networking time-frames, I wonder if...

January 31, 2008

Amazon buys Audible

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Michele and I love Audible. We buys stacks of audio books from them. The interface is intuitive, they have good bargains, and if you are clever (like my wife is) you can time your purchases for maximum buying power (look into how they do their credit system – trust me, you can save a lot).So, I'm pleased on one hand to hear that they have been bought by Amazon (another of my favourite...

January 31, 2008

SBTUG: Links, contact details from last night

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[UPDATE: Fixed the News file link] We had an excellent start to the year, with Cecelia Haddad taking us through Public Relations (PR) and Peter Ward covering the new features in SQL Server 2008 with a focus on those giving the most business value. Here’s some links and contact details. Cecelia Haddad: Marketing Elements Peter Ward: WardyIT Here’s the Tech News presentation with all...

January 31, 2008

Silly money continues to flow

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When will the correction finally come? We've seen no end of silly money being thrown around by Venture capital companies of late, and now it seems that Google and Facebook are chasing grad students with fistfuls of cash. $95K for a grad student with no experience is crazy talk, but the comments on the post seem to support the claim. Sadly this just perpetuates an unrealistic industry that...

January 31, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Product comparison

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Rob Caron has the goods, pointing to this MSDN article that compares the VS2008 range. The MSDN page is a good summary and includes links to other areas, such as this VSTO overview.
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January 30, 2008

ELCOM: Career plans for Developers – Part I

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30January

Part of my brief at Elcom is to look after all the developers (ie people management). This is something I enjoy, especially when seeing developers grow and improve themselves. During November and December I sat down with each of my staff and started preparing their career plans. It is their responsibility to work out their goals and aspirations, it is my job to facilitate that happening (within...

January 24, 2008

TIP: Compressing Virtual PC images

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24January

If you’ve got a stack of Virtual PC images clogging up your hard drive(and who doesn’t these days?), here’s how to compress (or compact) them. 1. With the Virtual PC image running, choose Capture ISO Image… from the CD Menu 2. When the dialog opens, find the Virtual Disk Precompactor.iso image (it’ll be in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual Machine...

January 22, 2008

TIP: Selecting multiple items in Outlook

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22January

Outlook allows you to select multiple items with just your mouse. The trick is to position your cursor in the very left part of the first column so that the cursor changes from pointing North-West to pointing N-E. Here’s how it is normally: Now position it a little more to the left and your cursor will change to be pointing up to the right (ie North-East): Now simply hold down the left...

January 21, 2008

Chris Sainty on LINQ to SQL

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21January

Chris Sainty has a series of excellent posts on LINQ to SQL.
Start here, and the just subscribe to his blog for the updates (11 of them so far if you include his post on Extension Methods).
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January 21, 2008

Visual FoxPro Sedna… the wait continues

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I'm with Andrew MacNeill on this – where's Sedna? Craig Boyd notes it is imminent. There's been a bit of palava about whether Microsoft should fix SP2 before releasing Sedna. I'm all for getting out Sedna as quickly as possible. Who knows what issues we might have in SP2 that are only highlighted by Sedna? Bring it on. I have a bit of a record for complaining about something...

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