Archive for February, 2008
SBTUG: This Wed 27 Feb – Mike Culver, Steve Riley – Amazon Web Services, and Windows Security
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 [...]
ELCOM: More Microsoft 2008 Stack testing results
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 [...]
MICROSOFT: As good as open source
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, [...]
TIP: Using Jungle Disk and Amazon S3 for backups
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 [...]
TIP: Problems with hidden Adobe download install files
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 [...]
TIP: Changing Vista Desktop icon sizes
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
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TIP: Wikipedia Search from IE7
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )VFP: Visual FoxPro Sedna release – biggest launch ever!
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 [...]
ELCOM: Career Plans for Developers – Part II
Further to my post about career plans for developers at Elcom, I wanted to mention the approach of encouraging staff to build their personal profiles.
It can be summed up in this attitude:
Your job (as a developer and employee) is to be so good that you are being chased by head-hunters all the time.
My job (as [...]
CLARITY: VSTS, VSTO, VSTA, VSX
Seems like Microsoft is having a V Day, every day. Here’s a run down of the main V technologies/tools:
VSTS (Visual Studio Team System)
Firstly, Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2008 (the current version) is Microsoft’s IDE for building .NET based applications, be they Web, Desktop, Device or Microsoft Office based.
Visual Studio comes in a number of different [...]
