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January 17, 2008

SBTUG: Wed 30 Jan – Understanding PR, and SQL Server 2008

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17January

Only two weeks until The Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) kicks off for 2008. And what a great return meeting we have lined up. Business On the business side of things, Cecelia Haddad will be giving us an overview of PR. The whole public relations side of business is a mystery to many, so this session will be especially relevant for business owners. Cecelia has more than 15...

January 17, 2008

Get FeedDemon for free

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Just in case you missed the announcement last week, you can now get FeedDemon for free. Thanks Newsgator.
I've been using FeedDemon for over 3 years now and swear by it.
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January 17, 2008

.NET Framework 3.5 source code released

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Scott Guthrie has announced the release of source code for some of the .NET framework libraries. This is fulfilling his promise from October last year.
Shawn Burke has a detailed post on how to set up debugging in Visual Studio 2008.
Scott Hanselman has a few pointers on what to expect.
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January 16, 2008

Sun buys MySQL for $1B

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16January

TechCrunch has the details on Sun buying MySQL. The official Sun announcement is here.
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January 16, 2008

RFID tags in prisoners

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I wasn't going to resume posting to this link blog until next week, but this news item caught my eye and couldn't wait… Those cur-a-zee guys in the UK government are talking about putting RFID tags in prisoners. That way they can track where the prisoners are, study patterns etc. Human rights groups are a little concerned of course and no doubt the discussion will get sidetracked...

January 16, 2008

TIP: Using IE7 Quick Tabs

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IE7 has a nice thumb view list of all your currently open tabs. That’s it there, right next to the first tab. Click on it or type Ctrl + Q to give you this – a thumbnail of each of the sites you have open. Simply click on the thumbnail you wish to switch to. To obvious you say? Yep, but after using IE7 for ages, I only just noticed it a little while back. So, as usual it sits under...

January 15, 2008

ELCOM: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008

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15January

Elcom is all 2008. The Elcom web site is now running on a Windows 2008 Server, with SQL Server 2008 as the back-end and Community Manager.NET completely recompiled under Visual Studio 2008 (targeting the 3.5 Framework) delivering the content. Community Manager.NET is Elcom’s content management system (CMS), which we have now re-compiled, tested and released on the .NET 3.5 Framework. Now...

January 15, 2008

TIP: Saving Tab Groups in IE7

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A feature I like in IE7 and use all the time is the Save as Tab Group function. If you have a bunch of sites open and want to save them for later review, simply Add the whole set of Tabs as a Group in your favourites. Later when you want to open the sites again, simply go to Favourites, choose the Tab group, right click and Open as a Tab Group I usually save a whole bunch of open links to a...

January 14, 2008

TIP: CTRL + TAB in VS2008

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14January

Another simple one you may already know. When working in Visual Studio 2008 you can use CTRL + TAB to switch through your open windows (similar to how you use ALT + TAB to switch between applications). It brings up a window as shown below. Simply keep Ctrl + Tabbing through them until you get the one you want (complete with thumbnail). Thanks to Angus for alerting me to this one. Technorati Tags:...

January 13, 2008

COMMUNITY: User groups are starting up again

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13January

Is it half way through January already? That must mean it’s time for user groups to start up again! And what a great bunch of sessions they’ve got coming up this month. Here’s a few to get you excited: Tue 15 – Readify RDN: Agile programming, SQL Server Reporting Services Tue 15 – SharePoint UG: Site Collections and their owners Wed 16 – .NET UG: Best Practices...

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