April 2007 - Posts
I've recently been testing out Windows Home Server Beta. The concept is simple and Home Server is much more than just a NAS device. It adds a bunch of capabilities for keeping various devices (up to 10) on your home network backed up, along with a place
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A while back I blogged about this site, www.NetFxLive.com . this site is a WF designer that doesn't host the WF designer, it's pure AJAX, etc. However, somebody sent me this this email illustrating it's possible to add workflow to your blogs. Now, I haven't
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Apricorn has a nice package that includes a case/caddy for a 2.5" notebook drive in both SATA and ATA interfaces are available. What's really nice is there's an EZ Upgrade kit that includes software, that you boot from a CD and allows you to copy your
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The P&P folks have released guidance (videos, documents - HOWTO, Guidelines, Explanations) on using VSTS. This is a collaborative effort of P&P, the Team System product group, and folks from 3rd parties. Welcome to the patterns & practices
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I didn't really think of the connection until I read this post from the Oak Leaf folks... http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/linq-featured-in-redmond-developer-news.html dBase, then Clipper (from Nantucket) was my first development environment on
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While the TFS team didn't put everything into the 1st real release of TFS, they certaintly are getting tools/powertoys/helpers/guidance out there to the community in real time. Driven by the initial need to ship, the TFS team clearly had to make some
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When initially setting up Live Writer with CS 2.1 it has some issues with the initial setup. Basically it doesn't work - at first. After some sniffing, it's getting an Http 301 redirect that causes it to fail. So, if you type in the site as http://www.cicoria.com/
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Couple of small bugs on unhandled exceptions. Need to uninstall & reinstall. Simple Temperature monitor utility that sits on the system tray providing CPU readings. Only verified to work on Toshiba Models. See previous post for details: http://cicoria.com/CS1/blogs/cedarlogic/archive/2006/11/22/404.aspx
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I'll be at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando from June 2 - June 8 working the Hands On Labs (HOL) and Instructor Led Labs (ILL). So, stop by and visit :) http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/learningcenter.mspx
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Just wondering if anyone's had their hands on a physical one and can provide some real honest feedback. At $2,000 it's too expensive just to try out. It looks mostly like a large personal communicator. Frankly, if I could just get that fold out plastic
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Here, in the continued foray into LINQ and the 3.5 (Orca's) release, is an implementation of LINQ over NHibernate. http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/03/16/Linq-for-NHibernate.aspx Oren Eini provides a starting point, if not a great example of how LINQ
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It seems the LINQ guys have done a great job of optimization inside of the LINQ namespace (System.Linq). http://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher/archive/2007/03/28/fast-switching-with-linq.aspx If you take a look at this post, then subsequent comments and a
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