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...
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...
PROBLEM: Adobe Download Manager hides files on your hard disk. As a result your install doesn't work, and further you can't find the hidden files to delete them. SOLUTION: Find the hidden files underneath the \Temporary Internet Files\ directory DETAILS: If you've downloaded an Adobe product lately using their Download Manager you might have got frustrated because you suddenly found...
It's easy to change the icons on your desktop in Vista if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel.
Simply hold down your CTRL key and scroll your mouse.
Forward to larger, back for smaller.
Technorati Tags: Tip, Vista, Desktop icon size
Another one I didn't realise existed… IE7 has a simple way of adding other Search engines to the Search box. Just choose the Find more providers… option. The one I use the most is the Wikipedia option – it's very handy to search for a term on Google (my default engine) and the also check it out on Wikipedia just using the drop down. (Firefox and other browsers have...
TechCrunch went into meltdown with the news. CNN covered it live. And Super Tuesday has been rescheduled to cope with the disruption… Amazingly though, in what I can only imagine is an embarrassing oversight, there was no press release about it. In possibly the tiniest launch announcement I've ever seen (you'll need hours to read through this comprehensive overview – NOT)...