Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

PDC 05 Video Sessions Online: Could It Have Been Done Worse?

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Microsoft has posted the PDC 05 session videos online. I was at PDC 05, but there were so many good concurrent sessions that there’s a lot of content I’ve been waiting to see on the DVDs. The first thing they did wrong is releasing the content on the web before sending the DVDs to the […]

Running Without a Page File

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Peter Provost posts about running without a page file. One of my biggest complaints about Windows performance is related to paging, so until SuperFetch gets here, I’m going to give this a try.

find and grep in Monad

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Good post on the equivalents of find and grep in Monad (MSH).

WPF, Web-Based Applications

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Microsoft is trying to position Windows Presentation Foundation as an superior alternative to traditional web development. It’s a brave move, but I really hope people don’t fall for it. In my opinion, WPF is a fad. Windows Forms does what people need. Flash does what people need. WPF is trying to be the best of […]

Google Office

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

So the rumour is that this announcement will have something to do with Google and Sun working together on an office suite. Personally, I don’t think so. I could see that happening someday, but at this point I think that’s just too big a target to take on. Office is big, and there’s nothing really […]

Native PDF support in Office

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Well, this seems like big news.

Explorer’s delay when deleting an in-use file

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Excellent article on The Code Project by Dan Farino where he discovers how to eliminate Explorer’s delay when deleting an in-use file.

Microsoft APIs

Friday, September 30th, 2005

I’ve had a pretty good history of predicting whether a particular technology was going to survive the test of time or not. Building an app on an API that later becomes deprecated (or more likely, is no longer being developed) is no fun. So I started building a list of Microsoft’s new APIs so I […]

SharePoint 3.0 Features

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

SharePoint is one of those things that started out as a fairly unassuming team website, and it’s been slowly building into something powerful and useful. Here’s a list of SharePoint “V3.0” Features.

My first start.com gadget

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Well I have a gadget mostly working… It’s on a public server but it’s not really useful to anyone but me, since it uses an XML interface to my Linky web service that I use to manage my own personal bookmarks. Anyone can use Linky, but the start.com gadget currently has my name hard-coded into […]