A nice little post from Craig Boyd covering the various Vista progress bar states and how they can be controlled in Visual FoxPro (VFP).
Long time no see Craig, great to see your brilliance shining again on the blogosphere.
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If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.3 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only one thing you need to do from this point on to take full advantage of the blog and that is to set up the first author profile. Write Permissions To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If...
Microsoft developers (I’m told) have the option to ‘go dark’ at times. At least that’s what Joe Schwetz indicated at a recent Sydney Deep meeting. The aim is to allow them to catch up on projects that are running behind. The process involves killing all distractions (email, blogs, phone calls, IM, etc) and focusing on priorities. I’m sure many software companies use...
Yep, I agree with Wayne that this is getting silly. Sesame Street being wound back due to all that harmful stuff they did in the 70s, 80s and 90s. No wonder this world is in such a mess :-) But fear not, the pendulum swings both ways and in a decade or so we'll see the push back on political correctness going way too far the other way. In case I haven't mentioned it before, my favourite...
Microsoft Research has a nice idea coming with its Pex dynamic unit test creation project. It aims to automatically generate unit tests based on your current code being developed. It sounds pretty cool. But it begs the following parody 'tip'. So, here's a great idea for developing your own massive software empire: 1. Start with the seed of an idea 2. Start writing simple code 3...
uTest claims to be a community of software testing service providers. Need some QA done on your applications? Perhaps this is part of your answer. How do I know this is going to be big? Easy, they have their own uTest Debit Card.
(via TechCrunch)
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Not wanting to be the only person on the planet who hasn't linked to this, here's my late link.
After some silly copyright hoo-haa last week, a revised version is up on YouTube. This time there's some bonus material – the credits (which will be read by a total of 4 people, maybe less :-).
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I've been a big fan of the Virtual Hosting blog for the last 3 months or so :-) Just about every post is bookmarked in my RSS reader for further reading and reflecting on. If you aren't subscribed already, then head over here or subscribe here. Today's post on Stress Busting Tips (50 of them no less!) is great reading for you developers out there fighting a huge backlog of tasks to be...
Greg breaks the news about leaving Readify to set up the Australian arm of Solid Quality – a SQL Server consulting and training powerhouse. The news itself will be of interest to many, but I was most taken with his formula of 1 week training for every 3 weeks consulting as the ideal. I'm sure many will relate to how being separated from hands on work (eg due to constant training...
Microsoft has announced that CRM 4.0 is now being shipped. The met their Q4 promise, but the release parties don't start until March – what's up with that? Just shows how much work goes into a release party these days I guess.
(via Mary Jo)
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