Microsoft
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007: FAIL!
Yesterday I had a need to create a virtual image of Windows XP Pro to do some testing against a USB device. I downloaded and installed Virtual PC 2007 and created a guest running XP Pro. I plugged in the USB device and nothing happened. After a quick web search I was able to confirm [...]
Debugging IronPython In Visual Studio
I’ve been getting to know IronPython a little lately and one of the first things I wanted to know was how to debug IronPython in an IDE. Since I use Visual Studio 2008 at work, I thought it would be a good start. I searched Google and found a text representation of the steps involved [...]
Designing An Intranet With Sharepoint [External Reference]
A collegue (really a mentor) of mine knows Sharepoint like nobody’s business and she posted an interesting article this week about when moving to Sharepoint, there is a shift in the mindset how you look at and classify information. It’s a quick point with a list of good references and I think it’s a good [...]
Trying out Sinatra on Windows
I saw a lot of buzz about the new Sinatra web framework and decided I’d give it a try. I have a client now that has a simple site they need up now and then I can migrate them to Rails over time. When I saw how easy Sinatra looked, I thought I [...]
EWeek attacks MSFT Open Source Initiatives
I just read an article at EWeek, and I can’t emphatically disagree more with the writer’s statements.
While it is true that there aren’t many products coming out of Redmond as true open source these days, the writer bases his assumptions on the top five projects at CodePlex. CodePlex is not the only place to [...]
Useful Error Messages
Here is some output today from the command line on Windows XP. I’m not going to add a lot of commentary here, but I thought this was a little ironic / funny.
U:\>net -help
The syntax of this command is:
NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP |
HELPMSG | [...]
Stats Check
I don’t have a lot of really technical content on this blog as of yet and have a whopping 2 subscribers according to feed burner. In the blogsphere, I am nobody. Now I do watch my stats and I have found it interesting that someone from Microsoft has been reading this blog. [...]
Jim Losi Nominated for MVP
Jim Losi, Visual Developer – Visual C# MVP Candidate 2007
For both new and experienced developers, Jim Losi has been a tremendous resource for guidance and assistance within the .Net community. Jim has assisted me personally via forum post, a code sample, a note of confidence, debugging a project, or contributing a library when needed. I [...]
Enter Vista
I was able to fix one of the machines! It was a simple problem. Apparently PCI-E video cards require XP SP2 or better. I did not have a slipstreamed XP disk and instead of making one, I just decided to install that copy of Vista I received from PowerTogether.com.
There are a few things I like [...]
PowerTogether.Com Vista Offer Validation
A couple of months back, Microsoft offered free copies of Vista Business or Office 2007 for watching 3 webcasts or hosted labs through PowerTogether.com. I did my part and signed up, watched the 3 webcasts and received an email saying it would be on the way within 6 weeks of RTM.
That day came today! [...]
